Nike and Adidas are using kangaroo skin to make sneakers. Is that necessary?

How popular shoe manufacturers are contributing to the world’s largest commercial slaughter of land-based wild animals

Global pet trade in amphibians is bigger than we thought

There is a strong bias for certain types of amphibians; six amphibian families contributed disproportionately high numbers of traded species

Balancing trade wars

Livelihood opportunities should take precedence in global trade talks as it is more about employment than anything else right now

The trade in body parts of people with albinism is driven by myth and international inaction

An upcoming UN meeting on witchcraft and human rights in Geneva is set to focus on the rising attacks on Albinos and the trade of body parts in …

Darkening shadow over drug access

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is another trade pact that will tighten patent laws

Last chance for the big cat

Several countries are getting tough with tiger poachers and traders in what may be the final attempt to save the magnificent beast:

Trade vs environment

Nine years since the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was created, the environmental impacts of trade liberalisation in the region …

WTO members agree to discuss proposal to waive patents on COVID-19 technologies 

The waiver would increase access to technologies crucial to fighting the pandemic

WTO decision on access to COVID-19 drugs without strings delayed

Proposal will be formally discussed in March next year, sources say

Dissent on Seeds Bill

Kerala and Bihar want amendments

Belated resurrection

COTTON CONCERN

Lost chance

Gridlock over farm trade issues continues

Bytes

India, South Africa block attempt to include ‘investment facilitation for development’ agreement at WTO meet

New issues should not be considered for ministerial mandates unless past decisions and unfulfilled mandates were acted upon, states India

Food for warmth

As winter sets in, people in north India turn to savoury dishes and sweets that can keep them warm. The market at this time is flooded with …

Four leopards killed every week in India: WWF

Report warns that the endangered cat may reach near extinction as happened with tiger

Poaching biggest threat to sturgeon species in Danube; 337 illegal activities in 7 years: Report

At least 955 sturgeon specimens seized during 2016-2022, the study showed

US targets China’s wind subsidy

Files complaint in WTO; says China unfairly helping equipment makers

Toxic mall

Instead of curtailing use of plastics, the Delhi government sets up a new market

Free access

Certified renewable

Renewable energy certificates find currency in Europe

Whose right(s)?

‘Compromise’ on TRIPS waiver is a sellout

Tough new conditions emerge in the compromise deal to ease WTO intellectual property barriers to production of COVID-19 medical tools

In the red

Left at the mercy of brokers who dictate the market terms, many cultivators of Gloriosa superba have consumed the plant's poisonous tubers to …