Sentences with phrase «wildlife trade»

In the past three to five years, there's been an increase in the scale of illegal wildlife trade, which has become sophisticated and dominated by organized crime.

The illicit wildlife trade is intimately linked to wealth and organised crime.

TRAFFIC believes in a world where wildlife trade maintains wildlife populations and contributes to sustainable human development.

Through research, analysis, guidance and influence we promote sustainable wildlife trade and combat wildlife crime and trafficking.

Everyone can play their part to help stop illegal wildlife trade.

Tom Milliken, leader of the elephant and rhino program for the international wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC, said Namibia had 1,750 black rhino as of the end of 2012 and the population has been steadily increasing under good management and protection.

Australia's Taronga Zoo and TRAFFIC, the international wildlife trade monitoring network have created an app that lets us do our part.

«The trends we have established in this study highlight the need for regulatory bodies to look beyond the existing databases and take into account the uncertainty surrounding our current understanding of wildlife trade in their conservation efforts.

The orangutan is particularly prized: A 2003 survey by wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC found that in just one month, Indonesian officials confiscated 30 orangutans from would - be wildlife dealers.

Navjot Sodhi, a conservation biologist from the National University of Singapore, commented that, while Nijman's report offers one of the most comprehensive views of the legal wildlife trade in the region yet compiled, it suffers from its sole reliance on volunteered data.

I think the Mexican government is quite discouraged by putting a lot of money and effort into enforcement but not enough to stop fishermen illegally setting gill nets at night with continued high prices for illegal wildlife trade with China.»

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The international wildlife trade threatens the survival of many species and results in the inhumane treatment of billions of animals every year.

A deadly disease that is wiping out salamanders in parts of Europe will inevitably reach the U.S. through the international wildlife trade unless steps are taken to halt its spread, says University of Maryland amphibian expert Karen Lips.

For the first time the UN General Assembly has taken up the global illegal wildlife trade as an issue of rule of law, alongside drug trafficking and similar issues.

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A report on the smugglers» records from Traffic, the group that monitors wildlife trade for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), says that this «raises serious concerns for the continued survival of the species».

«Shedd Aquarium applauds the legislation to save animals from extinction and stop the $ 19 billion - a-year global illegal wildlife trade industry,» said Jim Robinett, senior vice president of external and regulatory affairs at Shedd.

The illegal wildlife trade also rapidly climbed the U.S. policy agenda, partly motivated by the «Call to Action» issued by then - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

In early October, the triennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites), the world's largest wildlife trade conference, granted the African grey parrot the highest level of international protection, including the prohibition of international commercial trade of the animal.

Intensive community - based conservation awareness work has reduced the local hunting pressure in Myanmar, while the implementation of a trans - boundary agreement between China and Myanmar, signed in 2015, has significantly reduced illegal trans - boundary wildlife trade and illegal logging.

Conservationists do not know how the merit release market figures into Asia's overall wildlife trade, which also exploits wild birds for pets, food, passerine fights and song contests.

Amidst growing efforts to tackle the illegal wildlife trade crisis, the NUS researchers call for more attention to protect Southeast Asia's botanical diversity.

Associate Professor Edward L. Webb, from the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and NUS PhD graduate Dr Jacob Phelps, have uncovered a previously little recognised Southeast Asian wildlife trade — the illegal sale of wild - collected ornamental plants, especially orchids.

Veterinarians William Karesh, director of WCS's Wildlife Health Sciences, and Kristine Smith of the society's Field Veterinary Program argue that eliminating wildlife trade and focusing on controlling and eradicating the disease in poultry could prevent a future epidemic of the bird flu strain H5N1.

Using a novel gravity - underreporting model, the researchers carried out a comprehensive analysis and comparison of over 370,000 records of wildlife trade between 2004 and 2013 across three groups — mammals, avian and reptiles.

A study conducted by the University of Kent's Dr Amy Hinsley and Dr David Roberts, and published by Conservation Biology, represents the first large - scale global survey of wildlife trade via a social - media site, using the orchid trade as a case study.

The documentary also tackles another big animal killer, the international exotic wildlife trade, through which endangered species like sharks and Manta rays are being butchered and then sold as food or as bogus medical remedies.

But enforcement is only one leg of a stool, as is illustrated in this cartoon by Mike Shanahan accompanying «The elephant in the room: sustainable use in the illegal wildlife trade debate,» a new briefing paper from the International Institute for Environment and Development, released today.

As noted on the Fish & Wildlife Service site, thousands of wildlife species are threatened by illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade — it's often unsustainable, harms populations of animals and plants and pushes endangered species toward extinction.

France became the first European country to destroy its stocks of illegal ivory on Thursday in a dramatic warning to those involved in the lucrative wildlife trade that is endangering elephants and other species.

Could the badly regulated US wildlife trade lead to another international epidemic?Okay, so it wouldn't be swine flu, per se.

All this has lead to a flourishing wildlife trade on the internet and endangered species are feeling the impact.

In 2010, TRAFFIC worked alongside the World Federation of Chinese Medicine, who called for their members to cease using tiger parts in their products, signalling clearly that there is no place for the illegal wildlife trade within Chinese and traditional medicines.

The findings shed light on the market forces driving the movement of wildlife products around the globe, and indicate our understanding of illegal and legal wildlife trade is biased towards certain species and regions of the globe.

Illegal wildlife trade threatens the security and prosperity of people.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A deadly disease that is wiping out salamanders in parts of Europe will inevitably reach the U.S. through the international wildlife trade unless steps are taken to halt its spread, says University of Maryland amphibian expert Karen Lips.

The driving factor behind these troubling figures, reports the UN, lies in the burgeoning illicit wildlife trade, once a localized market that is increasingly grown into a highly - profitable network of organized crime — on par with the drug and arms trade.

The Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) as well as the Snow Leopard Survival Strategy (2014) list illegal wildlife trade as one of the key threats facing this endangered cat and its prey species in the mountain ecosystems of its range 12 countries.

An increasingly important discussion involves the sustainable use of wildlife and the importance of wildlife trade in the livelihoods of indigenous peoples, especially in developing countries.

«Underreporting in international wildlife trade: Findings suggest large portions of the markets for illegal and legal wildlife remain unknown, hampering regulation and conservation efforts.»

«Using science to combat illegal wildlife trade.»

Dwarfed only by the trafficking of drugs, humans and counterfeit goods, the illegal wildlife trade is estimated to be the fourth largest type of transnational organised crime.

The EAL report clearly had a profound effect on the narrative surrounding the illegal wildlife trade.

In her 2015 review of attitudes towards the illegal wildlife trade, Felbab - Brown, of the US think - tank Brookings Institution, cautioned against the «over-securitisation» of the problem, resulting in a militarised and inappropriate response to what are instead problems of organised crime and corruption.