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Viet Nam online: a rapid assessment of e-commerce wildlife trade in Viet Nam in 2017

A study released by TRAFFIC suggests that most of Viet Nam’s online illegal wildlife trade does not take place on websites ending in .vn, as previously thought and instead monitoring efforts should focus on those ending .com, including social media websites.

Publication Date: 
10/07/2018
Rosa A. Indenbaum
TRAFFIC
Tags:
Wildlife Trade, Illegal Trade, Vietnam, Wildlife, Internet
Wildlife

Raj fails to ensure genetic diversity of tigers at Mukundra: NTCA to HC

Jaipur: The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has pointed out that the state forest department not only violated law in the relocation of tiger T-91 to the Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve (

Publication Date: 
10/07/2018
Times Of India (Jaipur)
Tags:
Rajasthan, Tiger Reserves, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Climate Change, Ranthambore NP, High Court, Wildlife
Forests

Forest rest houses can't be transferred to private & commercial entities on PPP: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court today ordered that forest rest houses or inspection bungalows cannot be transferred to private or commercial entities in the name of public private partnership (PPP) for promotion

Publication Date: 
06/07/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, Central Empowered Committee (CEC), Forest Management, Ecotourism, Wildlife
Wildlife

Outrage over alleged plan to export rare animals from Congo to China

Mountain gorillas and other endangered species from the Democratic Republic of the Congo are at risk of being taken from the wild and exported to Chinese zoos, conservation groups have alleged.

Publication Date: 
03/07/2018
Guardian
Tags:
Wildlife, Exports, Endangered Species, Congo, China, Africa
Wildlife

The tide is turning Botswana lifts ban on elephant hunting

In a sign that Botswana is likely to climb down on its earlier official position not to convince parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to legalise commercia

Publication Date: 
03/07/2018
Southern African
Tags:
Wildlife, Poaching, Botswana, Elephant, Hunting, Africa
Wildlife

Kenya Wildlife Service Translocating Eight Black Rhino From Nairobi National Park To Tsavo East

Kenya Wildlife Service in collaboration with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on June 26, 2018 commenced translocation of eight black rhinos from the Nairobi National Park to Tsavo East National Pa

Publication Date: 
03/07/2018
Coast Week (Kenya)
Tags:
Wildlife, Rhinoceros, Relocation, Kenya, Endangered Species, Africa
Economy

Africa tourism monitor 2018: the high 5s – tourism as a pathway to industrialization, integration, quality of life, agriculture, and powering up Africa

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) is delighted to present the 5th edition of Africa Tourism Monitor, which highlights travel and tourism as one of the fastest-growing and most interconnected sectors in the

Publication Date: 
01/07/2018
African Development Bank
Tags:
Tourism, Africa, Tourism Industry, Economic Development, Wildlife
Wildlife

Guidelines for invasive species planning and management on islands

‘Invasive species’ (often called pests, weeds and diseases) are plants, animals, disease agents and other organisms taken beyond their natural range by people, deliberately or unintentionally, and which become destructive to the environment or human livelihoods.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2018
IUCN
Tags:
Invasive Alien Species, Islands, Wildlife
Wildlife

MP: Bandhavgarh tigress relocated to Odisha sanctuary, will join big cat from Kanha

BHOPAL: After its first successful inter-state translocation of a tiger, Madhya Pradesh forest department on Wednesday captured and shifted a tigress to Satkosia tiger reserve in Odisha.

Publication Date: 
29/06/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, Tiger, Satkosia Gorge SA, Tiger Reserves, Orissa (Odisha), National Tiger Conservation Authority, Wildlife
Wildlife

Environment minister releases manual on zoos

Union environment minister Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday released a manual containing guidelines to be followed while setting up zoos in the country, and asked the authorities concerned to develop cours

Publication Date: 
27/06/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Zoos, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Environmental Security, Wildlife

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