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- Room for Improvement: Using DNA Analysis to Address Rhino Horn Trafficking
Room for Improvement: Using DNA Analysis to Address Rhino Horn Trafficking
Law enforcement officials from around the world have seized illegal supplies of rhino horn at least once a week on average for the past 10 years. The type of seizure ranges widely. It could be a pair of fresh horns confiscated from poachers who just gunned down a rhino inside a national park. Or possibly dozens of horns were discovered cleverly hidden in an air cargo shipment. Sometime it’s just a few grams of powdered horn found in a traveler’s luggage. Maybe a mix of raw and carved horns was seized after a police raid on a trafficker’s home.
- World Rhino Day 2020: No Time for Complacency
World Rhino Day 2020: No Time for Complacency
Today marks the 10 years since the first World Rhino Day celebration on September 22, 2010. The past decade has been fraught with challenges for the world’s rhinos, yet some progress has been made. If the next 10 years are to be better for rhinos than the past 10 years, we cannot afford to lose focus now.
- EIA Calls for Improved Enforcement, Government Solidarity against Rhino Horn Trade on World Rhino Day
EIA Calls for Improved Enforcement, Government Solidarity against Rhino Horn Trade on World Rhino Day
For World Rhino Day 2019, EIA issued a blog calling for improved enforcement and government solidarity against rhino horn trade.
- Stop the Slaughter: Close Domestic Rhino Horn Markets
Stop the Slaughter: Close Domestic Rhino Horn Markets
Briefing for the 18th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES
- Record-breaking Bust Exposes International Trafficking Risk Posed by South Africa’s Domestic Rhino Horn Market
Record-breaking Bust Exposes International Trafficking Risk Posed by South Africa’s Domestic Rhino Horn Market
Record-breaking Bust Exposes International Trafficking Risk Posed by South Africa’s Domestic Rhino Horn Market
- EIA Condemns Establishment of Rhino Horn Trade Desk
EIA Condemns Establishment of Rhino Horn Trade Desk
EIA condemns the establishment of Rhino Horn Trade Africa (RHTA), an initiative launched yesterday by the South Africa-based Private Rhino Owners Association (PROA).
- On World Rhino Day, EIA Calls for an End to All Rhino Horn Trade
On World Rhino Day, EIA Calls for an End to All Rhino Horn Trade
To protect rhinos, domestic rhino horn markets must be shut down and pro-trade arguments must be abandoned.
- In South Africa, a chance to stop the illegal forest plunder for precious woods
In South Africa, a chance to stop the illegal forest plunder for precious woods
As the 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) begins in South Africa, EIA has released new analysis revealing the nature and scale...
- Poaching increases as South Africa pushes for legal rhino horn trade
Poaching increases as South Africa pushes for legal rhino horn trade
The poaching of rhinos in South Africa has increased by more than three rhinos a week on average since Environmental Minister Edna Molewa called for...