Zimbabwe's proposal for reopening ivory trade is one of the hot issues at this year's Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting this month. The Southern African

Zimbabwe, which is hosting the June convention on endangered species, is fighting for right to controlled trade in ivory

Poachers and smugglers continue to snip through the tatty net of existing Indian wildlife protection laws

A controversial CITES decision allowing South Africa to sell live rhinos may be based on fudged figures

Proposals have been mooted to save endangered species by curbing their culling and trade. But the fate of African elephants still hangs by the nose

the us has officially launched a global initiative to fight illegal wildlife trade. The Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking (cawt) comes despite the fact that there are two international

CITES proceeds cautiously, in the wake of the Convention on Biological Diversity