Wildtiere

Ten years ago, the United States initiated a wave of global momentum to protect elephants from poaching and ivory trafficking.

A regional South African court is facilitating a dangerous scheme to export rhino horn to known trafficking hotspots without effective government oversight or safeguards, and without the approval of governments that are party to CITES.  

Government leaders, community members, NGO representatives, and journalists from around the world gathered at the 11th Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa, Kenya, to discuss the many challenges that face our global ocean, as well as recent conservation successes, possibilities for action, and opportunities for international cooperation.

Rhino breeders in South Africa are attempting to bend international wildlife trade regulations to their will and undermine decades of South African law to circumvent the ban on international rhino horn trade.

EIA is deeply disappointed that South Africa’s new Biodiversity Management Plan to guide the country’s rhino conservation efforts retains dangerous actions to bring about domestic and international commercial trade in rhino horn.

By analyzing court verdicts, EIA’s new report sheds light on the routes, methods, and networks involved in supplying rhino horn to Chinese consumers and China’s criminal justice response to rhino horn trafficking.