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Stop the Illegal Wildlife Trade

<p>Pygmy marmosets were among endangered species promoted for sale</p>
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Endangered animals being sold illegally on Facebook as trade ‘thrives’

<p>Monkey meat is popular with customers in Kinshasa</p>
Africa

Around 10,000 wild meat dishes served in two African cities each day

Giants Club Summit

Combating wildlife crime with the East Africa Prosecution Association

<p>Hundreds of thousands show their support for our Final Say campaign in London, October 2019 </p>
Media

Thirty-five years as a force for change

<p>In Nepal, awareness will be raised among people of the importance of bengal tigers </p>
UK news

Britain gives £7m to protect tigers and orangutans from illegal trade

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Inspiring the next generation of wildlife crime investigators

<p>Community scouts (left to right): Jeska Muleya, Sithabile Munenga, Siphathisiwe Muleya, Patient Munsaka and Anita Mudenda </p>
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How your donations empower the frontline fighting wildlife criminals 

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New international forum of prosecutors to fight wildlife crime

<p>With declining and severely fragmented populations, gorillas are teetering towards the brink of extinction</p>
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The fight to protect threatened species

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We must work together to avert climate crisis and protect biodiversity

<p>The Ivory Act was passed in 2018 in an effort to halt poaching</p>
News

Labour accuse Tories of ‘sitting on their hands’ over Ivory Act

<p>‘Labour estimates that up to 53,130 African elephants have been poached and killed for their tusks since the Ivory Act was passed’</p>
Voices

How many more elephants have to die before the Ivory Act is enforced?

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Stopping illegal wildlife trade will save humanity

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New checks to bring an end to the illegal wildlife trade

<p>President Nyusi at The Giants Club signing ceremony in Niassa Special Reserve</p>
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Mozambique pledges to protect wildlife 

<p>Idah Murithi meets some of the elephants she is determined to protect</p>
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How Gen Z is shaping the future of conservation

<p>‘Some of the trafficking involves pangolins, sea turtles, a big target is shark fin, hard woods, and other one is the trade in giant clams’</p>
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Anti-piracy, abductions and wildlife trafficking taskforce to launch

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Uncovering the web of illegal wildlife traders on social media

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New podcast explores wildlife crime

<p>Tourists wearing face masks during a guided safari tour near Pretoria, South Africa</p>
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How the UK red list could pose threat to African conservation efforts

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Conservationists’ world of concern as the G7 prepares to meet

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Uncertainty about conservation budget cuts could harm wildlife

<p>Every sale of L.G.R eye glasses will support Space for Giants’ work protecting critical ecosystems in Africa</p>
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L.G.R supports campaign to protect endangered wildlife

<p>Soldiers in Yaounde stand near a pile of ivory seized from poachers by the Cameroonian Service for the Protection of Wildlife and Forests</p>
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West Africa stopping poachers but not flow of money from illegal trade

<p>A man feeds rabbits at a farm which breeds animals for fur in Zhangjiakou, in China’s Hebei province</p>
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China urged to call time on fur farms after WHO report on Covid origin

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How CSI Kenya is helping boost efforts to end wildlife crime

Wildebeests and zebras run across a sandy riverbed of the Sand River as they arrive into Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve
Voices

Kenya’s pastoralist communities have proved resilient to Covid

<p>A man feeds rabbits at a farm which breeds animals for fur in Zhangjiakou, in China’s Hebei province</p>
Stop the Illegal Wildlife Trade

China urged to call time on fur farms after WHO report on Covid origin

Stop the Illegal Wildlife Trade

How CSI Kenya is helping boost efforts to end wildlife crime

Wildebeests and zebras run across a sandy riverbed of the Sand River as they arrive into Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve
Voices

Kenya’s pastoralist communities have proved resilient to Covid

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New ‘Big Five’ of wildlife photography revealed after global vote

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The billionaire businessman fighting against illegal wildlife trade

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Home News

Trophy-hunt law overhaul ‘will cause even more wildlife killing’

File image: Birds in cage in an Indonesian market
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Songbird trade shrinking Sunda laughingthrush population in Indonesia

<p>Independent shareholder Evgeny Lebedev meets a herder at a cattle camp in South Sudan</p>
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How northern white rhino may live on in South Sudan‘s vast wilderness

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How your donations are now helping keep elephants safe in Kenya

File image: Birds in cage in an Indonesian market
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Songbird trade shrinking Sunda laughingthrush population in Indonesia

<p>Independent shareholder Evgeny Lebedev meets a herder at a cattle camp in South Sudan</p>
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How northern white rhino may live on in South Sudan‘s vast wilderness

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How your donations are now helping keep elephants safe in Kenya

<p>A Formosan pangolin is seen at the Taipei Zoo in Taipei on 24 February 2021</p>
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Scientists develop app to predict the next pandemic

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Earth Day 2021: Protecting our Earth

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Jane Seymour backs Stop the Illegal Wildlife Trade campaign

A tiger sits in a cage in the Golden Triangle special economic zone in northwestern Laos
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How China’s overseas SEZs risk helping the illegal wildlife trade

<p>The WHO’s report has failed to quieten a belief held by some that Covid-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology</p>
Voices

Covid’s origin doesn’t matter, all theories point to the same solution

Thousands of pangolin scales disguised as foodstuffs were seized at Cameroon’s border with Nigeria
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£5m of pangolin scales seized in Cameroon on ‘major trafficking route’

Cockatoo parrots, seized by authorities during an anti-smuggling operation in Surabaya, Indonesia
Voices

To ‘build back better’, we must fight corruption in the wildlife trade

Thai authorities look at documents found during the operation against the syndicate
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Thailand seizes £7m in assets from notorious wildlife trafficking gang

<p>File Image: Environmental authorities in Colombia released about 1800 animals of different species in different areas of the country, who were recovered of illegal wildlife trafficking</p>
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Illegal wildlife trade ‘linked to drugs and weapons trafficking’

<p>A teenager with iquanas, badger and other animals in Chatuchak market, Bangkok</p>
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Commercial wildlife trade in southeast Asia risking future pandemic

<p>A young crocodile caught in the wild is kept tethered in an old refrigerator at a roadside restaurant in Mexico</p>
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Mexico City’s roaring trade in wildlife trafficking

Home News

Stop ignoring root cause of pandemics, world leaders told

A male elephant grazes in plains of the Mara North Conservancy, Kenya
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Twelve months into the Covid conservation crisis in Africa

<p>A trafficked sex-worker posing with a rhino in South Africa</p>
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Chasing the XTC gang: Sex workers, illegal wildlife trade and money

<p>File Image: Newly-hatched Olive Ridley turtles make their way to the ocean at a beach in the Indian state of Odisha </p>
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Tragic tale of India’s illicit turtle trafficking industry

Cheetahs in Somaliland are threatened by the deadly pet trade
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The battle to rescue cheetahs from the deadly pet trade in East Africa

Evgeny Lebedev with Paul Kagame at a signing ceremony to officially welcome Rwanda to Giants Club
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Rwandan leader Paul Kagame backs The Independent’s wildlife campaign

Lord Lebedev, The Independent’s major shareholder, with Rwandan president Paul Kagame
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Rwanda’s president makes conservation his country’s next fight

Women in Kenya walking with donkeys to fetch water
Voices

We must invest in animal healthcare to prevent another pandemic

<p>A man wearing a protective suit controls the access to a market in Wuhan in March 2020</p>
Voices

Wuhan is our wake-up call, we must stop the trade of wild animals

A stockpile of pangolin scales seized by officials in Indonesia
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Animal part stockpiling ‘may have been made worse by pandemic’

Tiger cages in Laos
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The endurance of Asia’s tiger trade and the new ‘Tiger Queens’

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World Pangolin Day: On the deadly trail of pangolin poachers

A Malaysian Wildlife official displays seized rhino horns and other animal parts
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‘Corruption never stops’: Inside Asia’s deadly rhino horn trade

Customs officials display elephant tusks seized in Thailand
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How wildlife criminals are being caught by their own mobile phone data

Francois Meyer, African Pangolin Working Group
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How pangolins became the ultimate luxury good

The health of forest elephants in Gabon’s Lopé National Park has worsened as trees' fruit production has dwindled
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Elephants starve as climate crisis withers Africa’s largest rainforest

95 per cent of the world’s wild tiger population has been wiped out since the beginning of the 20th century
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UK still has ‘unlikely role’ in sale of tiger parts, report finds

Sylvie Chantecaille and Dr Max Graham, the founder and CEO of conservation charity Space for Giants
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Chantecaille joins our Stop the Illegal Wildlife Trade campaign

Rhinos in Kenya’s Meru National Park Rhino Sanctuary
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Chantecaille’s fight to save rhinos from poachers

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The fight to save giraffes gets political ahead of US election

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Chantecaille support campaign to save giraffes from extinction

Handler Kinord Makunganya and dog Danna at Malawi’s Kamuzu International Airport
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The detection dogs sniffing out wildlife crime

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Celebrities join campaign to save giraffes from ‘silent extinction’

<p>Dr Jane Goodall calls for an end to the illegal trade of wildlife</p>
Voices

Dr Jane Goodall on why wildlife trafficking must end

Emily Walker, the founder on KAAP, meets frontline anti-poaching rangers in Kenya
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The teenager leading the fight against poaching

<p>Lewis Hamilton supports Art for Animals, helping to protect biodiversity by ending the illegal wildlife trade</p>
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Lewis Hamilton supports our campaign to stop illegal wildlife trade

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