Species Victim Impact Statements (SVIS) Initiative featured in the South China Morning Post
A recent report - "Still Trading in Extinction" by ADM Capital Foundation, a partner of the SVIS Initiative, showed that Hong Kong SAR's...
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Apr 28, 20214 min
Analysis of a year's worth of wildlife crime cases in Mainland China
Beijing-based environmental NGO Shanshui recently analysed 1552 publicly-available wildlife case court statements in China from the year...
Mar 29, 20212 min
Seller of live coral arrested in China's Fujian Province
Precious corals have recently been added to Category I protected species in China as part of the update of the country’s protected...
Mar 18, 20211 min
Massive harm done by legal wildlife trade - HKU's Conservation Forensics Laboratory research shows
Astrid Andersson, who has just received her PhD under the supervision of Dr Caroline Dingle, showed that legal wildlife trade is enormous...
Mar 15, 20212 min
Leader of ivory smuggling gang extradited back to China
On the 1st of March 2020, the Chinese authorities made another step towards bringing a long - standing ivory smuggling case, designated...
Feb 8, 20211 min
After 32 years, China updates the List of Wildlife under Special State Protection
The original list was published in 1989 and was only updated once when musk deer and pangolin here uplisted to Category I in 2003. On the...
Jan 25, 20212 min
Man goes on trial for selling endangered radiated and African spurred tortoises in Chengdu, China
Prosecution calls for the defendant to pay a 10,000 yuan fine, issue a public apology on the city media, and also pay the costs of...
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