NEW YORK (20 April 2016) – The Indonesian National Police, POLRESTA SORONG, and the Wildlife Crimes Unit (WCU) of the WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) announced today an enforcement action against a wildlife supplier trading in protected birds and reptiles in Papua.
Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (April 19, 2016) – In honor of its 20th anniversary, the Disney Conservation Fund (DCF) announced today a targeted philanthropic strategy to help protect the planet through collaborating with leading nonprofit organizations that will help threatened wildlife and inspire a lifelong love for nature in young people. The new initiative, called “Reverse the Decline, Increase the Time,” is aimed at reversing the decline of 10 threatened species through scientific research, community collaboration, and increasing the time kids spend in nature. WCS is a partner in the effort.
SINGAPORE (18 April 2016) – A new study from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and TRAFFIC underlines Singapore's role as a leading transit hub for birds from Africa and Europe to East Asia and the Middle East, and highlights serious discrepancies in the way this trade has been recorded over a decade.
NEW YORK (APRIL 14, 2016) WCS’s Wildlife Crimes Unit (WCU) said that interrogations from recent arrests of wildlife traders in Indonesia indicate that illegal activities are shifting to the eastern part of the country due to better enforcement in the west.
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