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For use of the media only; not an official document. PRESS RELEASE Malagasy President and CITES Secretary-General discuss actions to stem illegal timber trade in the margins of 69th UN...

High-level Discussion: "Poaching and Illicit Wildlife Trafficking – Towards Joint Action by the International Community " A joint event of the Gabonese Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany United...

The recovery of the CITES-listed African black and white rhino populations in the wild over the past few decades, after being hunted close to extinction, is a great conservation success story – and for the first seven years of this century poaching levels had remained low at around ten a year. After 2007, however, a sharp upward trend in poaching started to emerge – a trend that has continued to the point where over 1,000 rhinos were illegally killed for their horn in South Africa alone in 2013 and over 700 killed so far this year.

The Senior Experts Group of the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) met in Geneva last week to discuss progress with its collaborative activities to combat wildlife crime. Opened...

Sixty-fifth meeting of the CITES Standing Committee on great apes Great apes were addressed under several agenda items at the 65th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee and covered by...

Among the 53 agenda items of the 65th meeting of the Standing Committee, the issue of great apes was addressed under agenda items 34.1, 36 and 37. Item 27 is...

The 65 th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee (the Committee) in July 2014 had a full agenda that included 53 primary agenda items (and many sub items) and some...