News: TRAFFIC India has released a paper titled ‘‘SPOTTED’ in Illegal Wildlife Trade: A Peek into Ongoing Poaching and Illegal Trade of Leopards in India’. Facts: Key Takeaways: The seizure and mortality of ‘common leopards’ revealed that of the total of 747 leopard deaths between 2015-2019 in India, 596 were linked to illegal wildlife trade… Continue reading Uttarakhand, Maharashtra had highest leopard poaching in India: TRAFFIC study
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Explained: Report on illegal global tiger trade counts 2,359; highest in India
A recent report titled ‘Skin and Bones Unresolved:An Analysis of Tiger Seizures from 2000-2018’ has quantified the illegal global trade in tigers and tiger parts between 2000 and 2018. The report has been compiled by TRAFFIC in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund(WWF) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN). The report says that… Continue reading Explained: Report on illegal global tiger trade counts 2,359; highest in India
