Eight pieces of good news and two pieces of bad news for marine fauna
Press release CITES CoP20 n°6
Excellent news for eel traffickersThe proposal by the European Union, Honduras and Panama to list all eel species of the genus Anguilla in Appendix II with an implementation delay of 18 months was rejected by 35 votes in favour, 100 against and 8 abstentions after a secret ballot. A real beating.
Opening of CITES CoP20 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Press release CITES CoP20 n°3
CITES Conferences of the Parties are not just hot air. Their decisions are binding. CITES, also known as the Washington Convention, is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. 185 countries are signatories.
“On the Trail” n°47, the defaunation bulletin
“On the Trail”, English version
“A la Trace”, French version
Quarterly information and analysis report on endangered animals poaching and smuggling
The world as it is – “On the Trail” n°46, the defaunation bulletin
“ON THE TRAIL” is not a line of short stories worthy of fueling conversations by the coffee machine. If this work number 46 (1,100 events, 184 pages, 912 sources, 6 maps, 224 photos, 6.9 Mb) refers to cotton-headed tamarins and capuchins transported in the underpants of smugglers in Colombia, to parakeet chicks in the boots of a driver at the border between Mexico and the United States, If this issue 46 reveals to its readers that in South Africa abalone by the tens of thousands were slipped into shipping containers in the middle of a cargo of pigs’ stomachs bound for China, it’s not to have a laugh before moving on to other things. It’s to show the world as it is, mutilated by the destruction of animal and plant beauty, undermined by the breakdown of natural ecosystems and threatened by the emergence of health risks for human populations.
“On the Trail” n°45, the defaunation bulletin
“On the Trail”, English version
“A la Trace”, French version
Quarterly information and analysis report on endangered animals poaching and smuggling
No. 45
1,022 events between April 1 and May 31, 2024
261 illustrations and 4 maps
809 sources, 172 pages, 6.6 MB
“On the Trail” n°44, the defaunation bulletin
“A la Trace”, French version
“On the Trail”, English version
Quarterly information and analysis report on endangered animals poaching and smuggling
No. 44
1,545 events
between January 1 and March 31, 2024
1,184 sources, 244 pages, 7.2 MB
Jail for glass eel traffickers
302 kg of European glass eels (Anguilla anguilla), i.e. around 900,000 specimens, were seized in February 2023 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, south of Paris. The investigation shed light on the mechanisms of the conspiracy
“On the Trail” n°43, the defaunation bulletin
“On the Trail” n°43
Quarterly information and analysis report on endangered animals poaching and smuggling
Poaching is not a movie
