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Tickets are going fast for the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation’s special evening A World Without Tigers? The event on Friday, October 7 takes place from 6.15pm at the Royal Geographical Society in London, and you can still buy tickets priced £15 here. Speakers include zoologist, writer and TV presenter Mark Carwardine, Russian tiger project coordinator [...]
A key segment of the new Nat Geo Wild documentary Blood Ivory – which will be screened again in the US tomorrow (September 24) – was shot in Kenya. The aim was to document what was happening on the ground – there have been so many reports of poaching and seized ivory, in and through [...]
LONDON: Supporters in the US have a second chance to see three striking new documentaries following the work of EIA undercover investigators on the frontlines of environmental crime. The Crimes Against Nature films premiered in the USA on September 6 and will be repeated there on Saturday, September 24, 2011. The programmes were a year [...]
LONDON: Three gripping new documentaries following the work of undercover investigators from the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) will premiere in the USA on Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Launched as a three-part special under Nat Geo Wild’s Crimes Against Nature strand, the programmes have been a year in the making and will take viewers into [...]
Day 3 at the CITES Standing Committee… I was a bit late into the conference room in the morning, as I’d had a pre-meeting meeting (such is the nature of these events), with a government delegate who had recently visited Vietnam, and was horrified at the open sale of tiger meat and tiger bone products. [...]
Civil society being excluded from discussions at UN Convention GENEVA: Conservation groups have reacted with dismay and disgust after being forced out of a crucial session on elephants and the ivory trade at the UN CITES Convention, currently taking place in Geneva. The NGOs were removed following a vote in the Standing Committee. The UK, [...]