#Act4 Wildlife The European Commission adopts a set of new measures to end ivory trade. While they will help in the fight against wildlife crime and to protect elephants, significant gaps remain. Ivory trade: a big step forward against elephants poaching and ivory trafficking 17 December 2021
#Act4 Wildlife On January 28th the European Commission published draft measures aimed to effectively ban EU trade in ivory. Help the elephants! Public consultation on new EU measures to ban trade in ivory 16 February 2021
#Act4 Wildlife Leading animal NGOs have written a joint proposal highlighting the serious concerns on the proposed revision of the EU rules on ivory trade. Joint NGO position on the revision of EU rules on ivory trade 28 October 2020
#Act4 Wildlife Wildlife crime is believed to intersect with other transnational organised crimes such as drugs, arms and human trafficking. Wildlife crime: the soft underbelly of organised crime 19 October 2020
#Act4 Wildlife The EU’s new Green Deal strategy offers ‘guidance’ to African countries but does nothing to stop Europe’s own ivory market, Rosei Awori writes. Europe’s double-standards on saving elephants 25 August 2020
#Act4 Wildlife Antique dealers fail in high court bid to overturn world-leading blanket ban on trading UK court rejects ivory ban challenge 5 November 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Elephant advocates are celebrating reports that Yahoo! Japan, the world’s largest internet ivory retailer, has decided to end sales of elephant ivory on its platforms by November 1st, 2019. Decision by Yahoo! Japan to end ivory sales celebrated by elephant advocates 28 August 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Singapore will ban domestic trade in elephant ivory from September 2021, the National Parks Board (NParks) said on Monday (Aug 12). Singapore to ban domestic trade in ivory from September 2021 12 August 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Singapore said on Tuesday it had seized 8.8 tonnes of elephant ivory, a record haul by authorities in the city-state, which conservation groups say is a transit point for the illegal wildlife trade. Singapore seizes ivory from nearly 300 elephants in record haul 23 July 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Zimbabwe has demanded the right to sell its stockpile of ivory to raise money for conservation, wildlife authorities said on Tuesday, joining other southern African nations in calling for the global ban on the trade in tusks to be relaxed. Zimbabwe demands right to sell $300m of ivory to fund game reserves 11 June 2019
#Act4 Wildlife The following statement was issued by Arnaud Goessens, EU Policy Manager, for WCS EU. Wildlife Conservation Society EU congratulates Belgium for steps towards closing its domestic ivory market 19 March 2019
#Act4 Wildlife WCS EU has issued the following statement from Arnaud Goessens, EU Policy Manager Belgian senate calls for stricter EU regulation on ivory trade 22 February 2019