Sentences with phrase «wildlife trafficking at»

On June 19th, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crushed a ton of seized illegal ivory in New York's Times Square, and last week top officials from the United States and China focused on combating wildlife trafficking at the annual Strategic & Economic Dialogue.

In Africa and Asia, WCS is working with governments to stop wildlife trafficking at the source, transport and consumer ends of the chain.

Not exact matches

At about the same time that the U.S. House of Representatives was readying legislation to combat poaching and wildlife trafficking for President Obama's signature, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) delivered 90 finger - length giant Thai catfish, a critically endangered species, to Shedd Aquarium.

TRAFFIC is the wildlife trade - monitoring programme of the World Wide Fund for Nature and the World Conservation Union and aims to help ensure that wildlife trade is at sustainable levels.

«The scope and scale of illegal wildlife trafficking today is unprecedented,» said Meredith Gore, an associate professor of fisheries and wildlife at Michigan State University and Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of State.

No one know how many birds succumb each year to the wildlife trade since much of the trafficking is illegal, but within Southeast Asia alone, it is likely «in the order of tens of millions,» says Kelly Edmunds, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in England who investigates the emerging infectious diseases amongst bird sellers in Asia and was not involved in the study.

Conservationists gathered at the United for Wildlife symposium — «International Wildlife Trafficking: Solutions to a Global Crisis» are discussing ways to protect wildlife and combat trade.

TRAFFIC, the arm of the World Wide Fund for Nature that monitors trade in wildlife, has claimed that the European Union needs to tighten up controls at its borders and to improve the training it gives to its customs officers.

Outdoor animals are at risk of injury or death from poor weather, traffic, and local wildlife.

The same goes for the traffic from Columbus, OH, following my e-mail to Amanda Rodewald, professor of wildlife ecology at Ohio State University.

Given the scope of wildlife trafficking, this arrest fits in the same «small victories» category as the 2010 case in which baggage inspectors at Bangkok's international airport discovered a sedated tiger cub in a checked suitcase of a Thai woman bound for Iran.

Although traditional conservation efforts have been aimed at protecting apes from bushmeat poaching and habitat loss, efforts to combat organized wildlife trafficking has been largely unsuccessful.

Trafficking wildlife is part of the business model of violent groups like the Lord Resistance Army, which commit atrocities at a large scale.