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YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Conservationists have warned a sudden change in Myanmar’s law allowing the commercial farming of tigers, pangolins and other endangered species risks further fuelling demand in China for rare wildlife products. The Southeast Asian nation is already a hub for the illegal trafficking of wildlife, a trade driven by demand from neighbouring China and worth an estimated $20 billion worldwide. In June, Myanmar’s Forest Department quietly gave the green light to private […]
Experts warned that Africa faces a poaching crisis that is likely to see a further decline in the number of wild elephants on the continent at a summit in Botswana on Monday (March 23). Delegates from Europe, Africa and Asia attended the Africa Elephant summit held in the northern Botswana town of Kasane. Experts from the United Nations body that polices the global ivory trade, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), said […]
