Press releases

Lastourville: a forester arrested with 2 ivory tusks (Gabon)

Translated from the French by an automated online translation service, so please excuse the roughness. See link for the French original. See link for photo & audio of article (in French)  The fight against ivory trafficking is becoming more and...

The Demise of a Vietnamese Wildlife Kingpin

See link for photos. Not many people seemed to notice when Nguyen Van Nam was sentenced to 11 years in prison for trafficking in rhinoceros horn in July 2020. Journalists filed a few brief stories on his trial, which were soon forgotten in the...

China crackdown on ivory trade deters smugglers, Hague report finds

See link for photos. An 11-year jail sentence for a Vietnam-based wildlife trafficking “kingpin” and his associate has sent other illegal ivory traders packing, with many abandoning their operations into China, according to The Hague-based...