More than 110 fisheries enforcement officers from 29 border checkpoints, plus 10 officers from the Industry & Commerce department and border police, took part in an enforcement training workshop earlier this month in Haikou, Hainan Province, China. Research by TRAFFIC has identified the island province of Hainan as a major hub for the illegal trade […]
The family of suspected Colorado gunman James Holmes said they will support the Ph.D student accused of entering a movie theatre last Friday and killing 12 people while wounding another 58. Asked if they stand by Holmes, lawyer and family spokeswoman Lisa Damiani said at a press conference today, “Yes they do. He’s their son.” […]
Warner Bros., the studio behind “The Dark Knight Rises,” is making a large donation to charities supporting victims of the Aurora, Colo., shooting rampage. Sources reveal that the studio has been in contact with Colorodo governor John Hickenlooper’s office and will contribute to a fund identified by the governor, which is a program of Colorado’s […]
As the cast of “The Dark Knight Rises” learned of the shooting in Aurora, Colorado, that left 12 moviegoers dead and more than fifty people wounded on Friday during a premier screening of their film, his reaction was said to have been that of shock. The film’s leading star, Christian Bale, who portrays Batman, issued […]
Government representatives from across Africa meet their counterparts in China this week in what TRAFFIC regards as a critical opportunity to make sure the rising trade in wildlife products between Africa and China is both legal and sustainable. China is Africa’s largest trading partner, with overall trade values estimated to be more than a trillion […]
Police investigating the Colorado shooting rampage prepared on Saturday to send in a robot to detonate what they called a sophisticated booby-trap in the apartment of a man accused of killing 12 people at a screening of the new “Batman” film. James Eagan Holmes, 24, is accused of storming into a theater in a suburban […]
Tens of thousands of wild birds exported from the Solomon Islands have been laundered into the global wildlife trade by declaring them as captive-bred, a new TRAFFIC study has found. Between 2000 and 2010, more than 54,000 birds, mainly parrots and cockatoos, were imported from the Solomon Islands and declared as captive bred. Yet local […]
Fifty nine people were injured and 12 people killed in Aurora, Colo., during a sold-out midnight premier of the new Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” when 24-year-old James Holmes unloaded four weapons’ full of ammunition into the unsuspecting crowd. The number of casualties makes the incident the largest mass shooting in U.S. history. Holmes, […]
Defending tennis champion and Spain’s team flag bearer for the opening ceremony Rafael Nadal quits from the London Olympics on Thursday due to undisclosed injury, leaving the tennis competition absent of one of its leading stars. Nadal won the French Open for a record seventh time this year but has recurring left knee problems during the […]
An American company has made the heaviest and deepest recovery, so far, of precious metals from a shipwreck. The Tampa, Fla.-based Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. announced Wednesday that it had recovered 48 tons of silver bullion from the SS Gairsoppa, a sunken British cargo ship in three miles of water off the coast of Ireland. […]
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