Your daily dose of bad new about poaching,
wildlife and environmental crimes from around
the world …
in the spotlight today ……………………
Zimbabwe’s government admits capturing baby elephants to send to UAE
SHAME ON THE UAE and ZIMBABWE FOR STEALING BABY ELEPHANTS FROM THEIR MOTHERS IN THE WILD – TO PUT IN UAE ZOOS.
WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE WOULD SEPARATE BABY ELEPHANTS FROM THEIR MOTHERS AND THEN STICK THEM IN ZOOS THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY?
HERE IS ONE SUCH PERSON.
Zimbabwe’s Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere
No 287 Wildlife Trade News 7th December 2014
Mapped: The world’s most corrupt officials http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financial-crime/11266664/Mapped-The-worlds-most-corrupt-officials.html
How corrupt is your country? http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/infographic
Project to End Great Ape Slavery. PEGAS.
Behind bars – thanks to CITES.
(NA comment: Reports on recent visits made to the Middle East and Congo. Read, and wonder, how on earth these countries have been able to be so actively, openly and illegally involved in the great ape trade, for years, and still not have been punished by CITES. Why have the secretariat and Standing Committee been so lenient over this illegal trading? WHY? And since then, the CITES secretariat has again fallen over backwards to excuse China. Do you think all this is scandalous? If so, what are YOU prepared to do about it?) https://freetheapes.wordpress.com/news/
These three men are very influential over which countries are punished, or not, by CITES.
No one, least of all us, is asking these men to do more than enforce the CITES Convention – which is what they are paid very well to do.
Achim Steiner UNEP John Scanlon CITES Oystein Steiner CITES
Executive Director Secretary General Chairman: Standing Committee
When it comes to CITES and its leadership the biggest mistake you can make is to judge either by its intentions, not its results.
CITES ISN’T WORKING FOR WILDLIFE –
AND YOU KNOW IT – DON’T YOU?
LOOK AT THE NEWS REPORTS EVERY DAY AND MAYBE WONDER HOW THINGS GOT TO BE SO DISASTEROUS – WITH BARELY ANY COUNTRY HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
CAN YOU THINK OF A SINGLE COUNTRY UNDER SANCTIONS?
(excluding Guinea which has been mentioned here many times)
Huge Red Sanders haul seized off Mumbai coast
Red Sanders is mainly smuggled to Malaysia, China, Singapore and other parts of South-East and East Asia. It is mostly smuggled via Dubai. – See more at: http://freepressjournal.in/huge-red-sanders-haul-seized-off-mumbai-coast/#sthash.mNz5deab.dpuf
China joins the fight against rhino poaching: (NA comment: They think adopting five rhinos on a zoo is going to save the species. Are they dumb or just desperate for improved PR?)
Seized illegal lumber in ARMM drops by 90% http://www.philstar.com/nation/2014/12/06/1399759/seized-illegal-lumber-armm-drops-90
Ethically sourced iPhones are ruining the Congo. Go see the gorillas and help save it http://qz.com/307478/ethically-sourced-iphones-are-ruining-the-congo-go-see-the-gorillas-and-help-save-it/
EU agrees to step up the fight against wildlife crime http://www.libdems.org.uk/eu-fight-against-wildlife-crime
What Is United For Wildlife Foundation? Prince William And Kate Middleton To Promote Foundation At NBA Game Monday Night http://www.ibtimes.com/what-united-wildlife-foundation-prince-william-kate-middleton-promote-foundation-nba-1737908
Rufiji illegal logging at alarming proportions. TANZANIA
http://www.dailynews.co.tz/index.php/local-news/39086-rufiji-illegal-logging-at-alarming-proportions
The Aussie journalist and the Penan
http://www.theborneopost.com/2014/12/07/the-aussie-journalist-and-the-penan/
