We Live In Interesting And Terrifying Times – Are You Ready For 2023?
With the end of 2022 on the horizon, the Nature Needs More team would like to wish you a peaceful holiday with your family and friends. The coming weeks bring us all a time for reflection.
It has certainly been a big year for biodiversity, from CITES CoP 19 to...
For The Price Of An Apartment
“The wildlife trade is one of the most lucrative trades in the world. The LEGAL trade into the EU alone is worth €100 billion annually.”, stated a 2016 European Parliament Report. The choice of words bears repeating, “one of the most lucrative trades in the world”.
The trade is not...
Sharks: Worth More Than The Sum Of Their Body Parts
From fins to teeth, skin and meat, the market for shark body parts is a grave concern, with shark finning being the most contentious issue.
The coverage of CITES CoP19 in the mainstream media has been thin on the ground, but one decision which did get attention was to list...
Fix The CITES Funding Crisis – Business Must Pay True Cost Of Trade Regulation
The CITES convention is rapidly approaching its 50-year anniversary; the convention was opened for signatures in 1973 and CITES entered into force on 1 July 1975. This milestone cannot pass without CITES providing all the evidence that it is fit-for-purpose, particularly given the looming extinction crisis.
CITES never included a...
The Road To CITES CoP19
Will 2022 Be Yet Another Year Of Lost Opportunities and Greenwashing?
Participating in CITES CoP 18, in Geneva in 2019, it was clear how broken the system regulating the international trade of the world’s most endangered species has become.
So, what could provide the leverage for change?
The only light...
The Desire To Supply Is Driving Biodiversity Loss
In recent years the importance of demand reduction campaigns has come to the fore. Certainly, well researched and designed demand reduction campaigns have the potential to trigger behaviour change in consumers and drive down their desire to purchase rare species.
But the demand reduction strategy cannot succeed without an equally...
Guesstimations and ‘Encouraging’ Action – This Is No Way To Protect Wildlife
The conservation sector needs to stop calling what are effectively ‘guesstimations’ an evidence-based approach. After decades of trade in endangered species there is still no reliable information on what constitutes a sustainable offtake.
Even though this trillion-dollar trade has made mindboggling profits for some of the wealthiest companies and people,...
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One of Einstein’s famous quotes was “You Don’t Have to Know Everything. You Just Have to Know Where to Find It.”.
When you want to know about the very real risks associated with the extinction crisis where do you turn? How do to you find the facts and the solutions,...
CITES Epic Failure: The Legal Trade Of The Siamese Crocodile
If there is one species that shows CITES doesn’t work in its current form it’s the Siamese Crocodile. These crocodiles were once widespread throughout much of mainland Southeast Asia. From the 1950s commercial hunting for skins and then the collection of animals to stock crocodile farms, again to supply the...
Yet ‘Another’ One-Off Ivory Sale Requested – Why It Shouldn’t Be Allowed
Zimbabwe has indicated that it is planning to present a case to CITES, CoP19 in Panama later this year, to allow (another) one-off sale of its ivory stockpile. The country is also rallying its allies (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia) to support the push to open up the...
The Long Read: Fishing Industry Lobbies Against CITES Modernisation – Here’s Why
Over the last two years, Nature Needs More has continued to meet with politicians and government agencies in our push for modernising CITES. During this time, it has become clear that the fishing industry is a key obstructionist to the urgent need to modernise the regulator of the global trade...
Greenwashing: Don’t Aid ‘False Solutions’ And Undermine Real Progress
It is time for conservation organisations to stop lending their brands to industry greenwashing. There are many examples of this, but since it is in the news, let’s focus on the illegal online trade in endangered species.
Launched in 2018, the Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online has three conservation...