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Stop the smuggling
Global news
The global illegal trade in endangered species is huge, here, external links will show you things that are happening around the world.
2008
- 'Safe passage' for wildlife traffickers, (BBC News, May 2008)
- Joy over India tiger cubs births, (BBC News, May 2008)
- Threats to rhinos continue in Assam; Kaziranga toll 26, (Wildlife Trust of India, May 2008)
- Four arrested in Nepal in possession of leopard skins, (Wildlife Extra, May 2008)
- Kruger National Park authorities reveal they killed a rhino poacher in 2007, (International Animal Rescue, March 2008)
- Endangered pygmy hippo found in Liberia, (Telegraph, March 2008)
- Westminster Council to crack down on illegal caviar traders, (thelondonpaper, March 2008)
- Dramatic rescue for Indian tiger, (BBC News, February 2008)
- Indonesia tightens tortoise trade regulations, (TRAFFIC, February 2008)
- Bengal big cats face oblivion as medicine trade fuels poaching, (The Times, February 2008)
- Super-rich kill bears for 'sport', (The Sun, February 2008)
- Tiger Body Parts Trade Still Going Strong, (Sky News, February 2008)
- African Elephant Countries to Work Together to Thwart Poaching, (Wildlife Extra, February 2008)
- Rare cooperation to save gorillas, (BBC News, February 2008)
- New Poll Shows an Overwhelming Majority of Chinese Public Supports Ban on Tiger Trade, (Wildlife Protection Society of India, January 2008)
- Indian Government Boosts Tiger Conservation Funding 400 Percent, (Wildlife Extra, January 2008)
- Vietnam zoo auctioned dead tigers, (BBC News, January 2008)
2007
- Rare Siberian tigers found dead, (BBC News, December 2007)
- Indian tiger trap nets notorious dealer wanted for smuggling animal parts, (The Times, December 2007)
- Amur tiger numbers on the increase, (Wildlife Extra, November 2007)
- India to step up guard on tigers, (BBC News, November 2007)
- Three convicted of wildlife crimes in India, (Wildlife Extra, November 2007)
- Six of 8 bear species at risk of extinction- group, (Reuters, November 2007)
- Gunned down for fashion: The animal whose fur is worth more than gold, (Daily Mail, October 2007)
- Conservationists 'astonished' by Indian tiger find, (Guardian, September 2007)
- Concern over Nepal wildlife seizures, (BBC News, August 2007)
- Snow leopard furs seized in China, (BBC News, August 2007)
- Holidaymakers warned off illegal wildlife goods as 163,000 imports confiscated, (Guardian, August 2007)
- Missing DR Congo gorillas 'dead', (BBC News, August 2007)
- Poachers kill two more rhinos in Kaziranga, toll rises to 14, (Wildlife Trust of India, August 2007)
- 57 shahtoosh shawls seized, (The Times of India, August 2007)
- Luxury Store Owner Convicted for Wildlife Trafficking, (HULIQ.com, August 2007)
- Four Mountain Gorillas killed in the DRC, (Wildlife Extra, July 2007)
- 'For a price I can get you any animal', (The Times, July 2007)
- British restaurants using black market caviars, (The Independent, July 2007)
- Chinese police save 270 crocs from benig handbags, (Daily Mail, July 2007)
- Wildlife trade in London, (Time Out, July 2007)
- Ebay to Ban Global Ivory Trade on its Sites, (Planet Ark, June 2007)
- Endangered black rhinos return to Tanzania, (Wildlife Extra, June 2007)
- Bald eagle taken off endangered species list, (Guardian, June 2007)
- China's reported move to lift trade in tiger body parts flayed, (The Hindu, June 2007)
- Another Mountain gorilla shot dead by rebels in the DRC, (Wildlife Extra, June 2007)
- Man arrested in ivory trade probe, (BBC News, June 2007)
- Tigers Disappearing From Yet Another Indian Reserve, (Planet Ark, June 2007)
- Ivory sales still booming online, (Guardian, May 2007
- Asian crime syndicates fuel illegal ivory surge, TRAFFIC tells CITES, (Traffic, May 2007)
- China seeks to end ban on tiger sales, (Financial Times, May 2007)
- Seven die in battle as park rangers ambush ivory poaching gang, (Times, May 2007)
- Ivory sales still booming online, (Guardian, May 2007)
- Poaching for Bin Laden, (Guardian, May 2007)
- First Condor egg laid in Baja California for 70 years, (Wildlife Extra, May 2007)
- Chinese tiger farms must be investigated, (WWF, April 2007)
- East African mountain gorillas make comeback, (Reuters, April 2007)
- Smuggled butterfly find in Serbia, (BBC News, April 2007)
- Four years imprisonment for Rhino traders in West Bengal, (Wildlife Trust of India, March 2007)
- Trawler seized with 220 rare turtles, (Reuters, March 2007)
- Survey raises hope for India's Irrawaddy dolphins, (Reuters, March 2007)
- The factory farm tigers being turned into wine, (Daily Mail, March 2007)
- Mexico vows to protect butterfly, rare desert oasis, (Reuters, February 2007)
- Huge seizure of tiger skins, bear paws and saiga horns in Russian Far East, (Wildlife Extra, January 2007)
2006
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