US EditionPangolins, Elephants: Crime Networks Wiping Out Wild Africa
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Pangolins, Elephants: Crime Networks Wiping Out Wild Africa
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 19, 2025 (ENS) - A new investigative report has laid bare the scale and complexity of wildlife trafficking across southern Africa, exposing a tangled web of corruption, organized crime and systemic failures that are eroding conservation efforts and fueling illicit markets. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business
Millions of pangolins, 193,000 elephants — how crime networks are hollowing out Africa’s wilderness
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick A new investigative report has laid bare the scale and complexity of wildlife trafficking across southern Africa, exposing a tangled web of corruption, organised crime and systemic failures that are eroding conservation efforts and fuelling illicit markets. Disruption and Disarray: An analysis of pangolin scale and ivory trafficking, 2015-2024 by the Wildlife Justice Commission is one of the most comprehensive exa…
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