Timber proposals widely adopted at CITES
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 9:49 | Subscribe to e-Dispatches
(weekly TRAFFIC email newsletter)
Stay in touch - download the free TRAFFIC news Ovi App for Nokia phones

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 9:49 |
Share Article ![]()
Bangkok, Thailand, 11th March—Governments at a United Nations meeting on wildlife trade today voted for better international trade controls for Manta rays. The rays are in decline owing to overfishing for their high-value gill plates.
Monday, March 11, 2013 at 14:27 |
Share Article ![]()
Bangkok, Thailand, 11th March—Governments at a United Nations meeting on wildlife trade today voted for better international trade controls for shark species that are in severe decline because of overfishing for their high-value fins and meat.
Monday, March 11, 2013 at 9:45 |
Share Article
Bangkok, Thailand, 11th March 2013—Governments worldwide voted last week to improve the measures protecting more than 30 freshwater turtles and a tortoise from over-harvesting for the international pet and meat trades.
Monday, March 11, 2013 at 4:50 |
Share Article
Friday, March 8, 2013 at 7:51 |
Share Article
Bangkok, Thailand, 8th March 2013—Japan is asking the world’s governments to help protect the Ryukyu Black-breasted Leaf Turtle, a rare turtle found on only three small islands in the Okinawa group.
Friday, March 8, 2013 at 4:20 |
Share Article 
Bangkok, Thailand, 7th March 2013—Parts of more than 1400 Tigers have been seized across Asia in the past 13 years, according to TRAFFIC’s latest analysis of confiscations, which includes new data for 2010-2012.
Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 4:01 |
Share Article
Bangkok, 6th March 2013— Populations of elephants in Africa continue to be under severe threat as the illegal trade in ivory grows - with double the numbers of elephants killed and triple the amounts of ivory seized, over the last decade.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 5:57 |
Share Article
Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 12:45 |
Share Article TRAFFIC aims to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature
TRAFFIC is a strategic alliance of
and 
TRAFFIC International, 219a Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 277427 Fax: +44 (0) 1223 277237
UK Registered Charity No. 1076722, Registered Limited Company No. 3785518.
Email: traffic@traffic.org
Copyright © 2008, TRAFFIC International. All rights reserved.