Halloween at sea
For several years now, 3 monster trawlers have been haunting the Channel, the Irish Sea and the Northeast Atlantic up to the Arctic Ocean. Using their power, their European flags and their super powerful sonars, they detect and collect in their 500-meter-long trawling nets schools of mackerel, herring, whiting and saurel. The fish are pumped into the nets, sucked into pipes, sorted in freezing rooms, stuffed into 25-kg parcels, unloaded in the Netherlands and most of them are then sent to Western Africa in reefer ships. The sea monsters are accused of contributing to the exhaustion of sea resources in the South Atlantic and to the ruin of local flotillas, especially in Mauritania. Their crew is multinational, their command is European.
Sea cucumbers : CITES takes into account the lower class
CITES CoP18 – Press release n°3
Geneva – 14h59
After 17 years of discussions, pillaging and smuggling, three first species of sea cucumbers were listed this morning in CITES’ Appendix II to control their international trade : teatfish.
The wildlife stock exchange
CITES CoP18 Press release n°1
The 18th meeting of the Conference of the 184 Parties (CoP) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora – CITES – is meeting in Geneva from 17 to 28 August 2019. Robin des Bois (Robin Hood), the Paris based NGO, has been an observer at CITES for 30 years. This conference was scheduled to be held in Colombo in May-June 2019. It was postponed and then moved to Switzerland due to the April 21 attacks in Sri Lanka.
Will CITES prove that it is competent to coordinate the international cooperation against environmental crime and resist the siren song of the wildlife extinction capitalism?
Will CITES Parties finally recognize that wild animals are No Border and that species such as giraffes and elephants should have the right to move across political and administrative boundaries?
“On the Trail“ n°23, the defaunation bulletin
“On the Trail“ n°23, the defaunation bulletin
(pdf, 166 pages – 13.6 Mo)
Seahorses, corals, abalones, queen conches, giant clams, date mussels, sea urchin, sea cucumbers and fishes, pages 6 to 18
Information and analysis report on animal poaching and smuggling
from the 1st October 2018 to the 31 of January 2019
1112 poaching, smuggling and rescue casese
16 dead persons: 10 rangers, 2 civilians and 4 poachers
“On the Trail“ n°22, the defaunation bulletin
Quarterly information and analysis report on animal poaching and smuggling
from the 1th July to the 30 of September 2018
828 poaching, smuggling and rescue cases
(pdf, 127 pages – 2.8 Mo)
Seahorses, corals, abalones, giant clams, conches, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and fishes, pages 4 to 15
14 dead persons : 6 rangers, 8 poachers
“On the Trail” n°21, the defaunation bulletin
Quarterly information and analysis report on animal poaching and smuggling
792 events from the 1th April to the 30 of June 2018
124 pages, 4,7 Mo
Seahorses, corals, abalones, nautiluses, clams and date mussels, sea cucumbers and fishes, pages 4 to 13
“On the Trail“ n°20, the defaunation bulletin
Quarterly information and analysis report on animal poaching and smuggling
792 events from the 1th January to the 31 of March 2018
134 pages, 5 Mo
Seahorses, corals, abalones, giant clams, conches, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, fishes, pages 4 to 18
Primates p. 56
It’s war on orangutans in Indonesia and Malaysia.
