TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, works to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature
Entries from December 1, 2007 - January 1, 2008
TRAFFIC launches traditional Chinese medicine textbook
TRAFFIC's new Chinese-language textbook provides information on how best to protect threatened species used in traditional Chinese medicineShanghai, China—A new textbook aimed at raising awareness amongst teachers and students on how best to protect threatened species used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) was recently launched by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. It is China’s first TCM textbook aimed at university students that focuses on conservation information.
Resource science of Chinese medicinal materials: Protection and sustainable use of Chinese medicinal material resources examines the conservation and sustainable use of the animal and plant species found in the Chinese materia medica.
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in Conservation awareness, Report launch, Plants - medicinal and aromatic
Guide to Kalimantan’s protected species launched
A new identification guide will help enforcement authorities in Kalimantan identify protected wildlife species in trade Click to enlarge. Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, 12 December 2007—A pocket guide to help enforcement authorities identify protected wildlife species in trade was launched today in Pontianak, Indonesia.
The guide was published as part of a law enforcement project in West Kalimantan between TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, WWF-Indonesia and the Directorate of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation, Government of Indonesia.
Has the yew tide turned?
TRAFFIC’s report: Trade and conservation of Taxus in China is available only in Chinese. Beijing, China, 11 December 2007—A recent TRAFFIC report, Trade and conservation of Taxus in China, sheds light on China’s role in the continuing and unsustainable trade in wild Yew trees in the Genus Taxus, whose bark and needles are harvested for the production of anti-cancer medicines.
The industry, which began in 1992, depleted 90% of wild Taxus populations in parts of Yunnan province, the heart of Taxus distribution in China.
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in Conservation awareness, Plants - medicinal and aromatic
