In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
Chris Packham, the naturalist and TV presenter, has said it is “disgusting and disappointing” that the UK’s wildlife crime agency faces closure in six weeks unless the government renews its funding. The national wildlife crime unit (NWCU) was established in 2006 to investigate offences including rare-bird egg theft, deer poaching, …
Why? Because poor Tanzanian fishermen are using explosives, illegally, to kill hundreds of fish in seconds. Blast fishing, as it’s called, not only destroys large numbers of fish directly—but indirectly as well by killing coral and the rich array of marine animals that depend on it. Experts believe that in …
An Indonesian court threw out a government suit against a pulpwood plantation company for alleged damage from illegal burning, another setback for President Joko Widodo as he seeks a permanent solution to annual forest fires that have caused dangerous haze across Southeast Asia. A district court in southern Sumatra rejected …
Residents in the Wa East District have expressed unease about the activities of some lumber companies who are indiscriminately felling valuable trees in the District. They said the destruction of trees in the area could cause deforestation and affect agriculture production and the economic livelihoods of the people. The residents …
The destruction of Brazil's Amazon forest, the world's largest intact rainforest, increased by 16 percent in 2015 from a year ago as the government struggles to enforce legislation and stop illegal clearings. Satellite data for the 12 months through the end of July released on Thursday showed that 5,831 square …
Brazil's environmental assets exchange BVRio on Tuesday launched an app that promises to help foreign traders and buyers of Brazilian timber make sure the product hasn't been illegally logged. The exchange, which provides a market for the trading of assets such as carbon and forest credits, says buyers using the …
South Africa has stepped up its efforts to fight rhino poaching in the country’s flora and fauna-rich nature reserves, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has said. Addressing the second Interpol-United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Conference in Singapore on Monday, the minister said Kruger National Park has …
Groups of reformed youths who once sold drugs and stole from their neighbours are helping protect trees in rural central Kenya from illegal loggers. The young adults, whose previous activities were a source of community tension, now report suspicious logging to village authorities. They are also contributing to an effort …
Zimbabwean police on Tuesday arrested a local hunter who was linked to the killing of Cecil the lion in July on new charges of transporting 29 sable antelopes without a permit and as accomplice to smuggling the animals. Theo Bronkhorst already faces trial on Sept. 28 on charges of breaching …
Rajasthan has less than 5% of the country's forest cover but when it comes to environment-related offences, particularly the number of crimes under the Forest Act and the Wildlife Protection Act, it is way ahead of other states. More than half of the country's total environment-related offences last year were …
NEW DELHI: The city recorded the seventh-highest number of environment-related crimes in the country in 2014. Although it had only 41 cases, as against the wo-rst performers Rajasthan (2,666) and Uttar Pradesh (1,442), none of the other Union Territories-including the densely forested and eco-sensitive islands of Andaman and Nicobar, and …
India had reported over 5,800 environment related crimes last year with maximum over 83% of it being recorded for violation of the Forest Act, 1927 where the offenders were booked for illegally cutting trees in forest areas and transiting forest produce without required permission. The figures of environment related crimes …
Indonesian police have arrested four men for allegedly killing a Sumatran tiger and trying to sell its body parts, an official said on Monday, in the latest case of the critically endangered animals being targeted. Acting on a tipoff, a group of police officers posing as potential buyers arrested the …
CHINA has imposed punishment in 25,164 environmental violation cases in the first half of 2015, with 9,325 companies shut down, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said yesterday. Violators were fined more than 230 million yuan (US$37.6 million), and 740 cases of suspected environmental crime have been transferred to the police …
BEIJING - China has imposed punishment in 25,164 environmental violation cases in the first half of 2015, with 9,325 companies having their doors sealed, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said Wednesday. Violators were fined more than 230 million yuan ($37.6 million), and 740 cases of suspected environmental crime have been …
ORGANISED criminals including dynamite fishermen and poachers have their days numbered as government teams up with European Union and World Bank to contain spiraling environmental crime. Home Affairs Minister, Mathias Chikawe, Fisheries and Livestock Minister, Dr Titus Kamani, World Bank Country Director for Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, Phillipe Dongier and …
