A bid by Tanzania to sell 80.5 tonnes of stockpiled ivory to Japan and China was rejected on Monday, as experts pointed to a surge in illegal trafficking driven by Asian-based organised crime. After a tense debate, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) also slapped down a separate proposal to downlist Tanzania's elephants to a ...

A U.N. conservation meeting has rejected Zambia's plans to eventually sell ivory, even after the country withdrew a proposal for a one-off sale of its existing stocks. The rejection at the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species comes hours after a similar proposal ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Funding to combat malaria must be more than tripled if the mosquito-borne disease which kills nearly a million people a year is to be fought effectively, health campaigners said on Thursday. Presenting a report covering the past decade, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership said a jump in financing had helped to contain the disease but more needed to ...

A booming black market in African ivory linked to Asian crime syndicates may scupper efforts by Zambia and Tanzania to hold a one-off sale of tusks, experts and delegates at a UN wildlife trade meeting say. At its last gathering in 2007, the UN-backed Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted for a nine-year moratorium on exports of ...