Africa suspends ivory trade for nine years

Tourism-dependent nations value elephants

COP19: CITES relaxes restrictions on export of Indian shisham products

The export restrictions imposed in 2017 dealt a long-term blow to the country’s furniture & handicrafts industry

Ivory poaching: scientists trace origin to two hotspots in Africa

Researchers from the University of Washington matched the DNA fingerprint of ivory to the DNA profile of elephant dung to come to the conclusion

New software to conserve shark species

The practice of slashing off a shark's fins and dumping the animal back into the sea has been declared illegal in many countries

100,000 killed in 3 years, Africa may have no elephants in a few decades

Asia would be responsible for their disappearance, shows study that for the first time quantitatively demonstrates scale of illegal killing

In a favour of a lesser good

The latest round of negotiations on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species has left little doubt that the South must fight …

US launches global initiative to fight illegal wildlife trade

Legal, controlled trade of wild species can have many benefits: CITES report

Adressing causes of poaching will benefit indigenous people, local communities and others involved in the supply chains

In short

104 shark and ray species now receive new protections, but are they enough?

Improved fisheries management is essential to ensure long-term sustainability for sharks and rays as well as the associated fisheries as food and …

18th Conference of parties of CITES: Global conservation's hits and misses

Some excellent decisions taken to protect the Earth's diminishing flora and fauna; in some other cases, better luck next time perhaps

International bodies like WHO, FAO join hands at CITES COP19 to curb zoonotic diseases

Zoonoses defined as infectious diseases spread between animals and humans by food, water, fomites or vectors

Africa’s Tanzania loses 60 per cent elephants to poaching

Neighbour Mozambique had recently revealed that it lost nearly half of its elephant population in five years

Fish on the front burner

Marine species likely to top CITES meet agenda

Cheetah trade could drive the species to extinction

Smuggling that has endangered the subspecies in Horn of Africa is likely to also affect 40-100 last remaining Asiatic cheetahs in Iran

Narkya—and the plunder of biodiversity

Dilution of biological conservation rules and lax enforcement of forest laws are giving free rein to the drug industry and trade

CITES CoP 2019: Resolution seeking closure of domestic ivory markets not adopted

30 African countries panned EU, Japan for not closing legal ivory markets

Poaching on the rise, but CITES COP19 downgrades status of southern white rhino

Despite the setback, the parties at COP19 rejected the proposal made by Eswatini to reinstate trade in rhino horns

'Resurgence of smuggling in Myanmar threat to wild Asian elephants'

Smugglers resort to torture to capture and train elephant calves, says report by wildlife monitoring network

Last pangolins

The world is running out of time to save its only scaly mammal

Elite in an ivory tower

Wildlife harvesting

Sustainable harvesting of chiru may help save the Tibetan antelope

CITES COP19: India’s freshwater turtle in danger of extinction

India puts forward proposal to move it to Appendix I; Common hippo, straw-headed bulbul, African elephant at risk too

CITES CoP 2019: Otters given highest protection from trade

Asian small-clawed as well as smooth-coated otters have been included in Appendix I of CITES