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Peace Parks Foundation Celebrates 20th Anniversary
01 February 2017
Twenty years ago today, Peace Parks Foundation was founded by HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Nelson Mandela and Dr Anton Rupert to facilitate the establishment of peace parks, or transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs), in southern Africa. Southern Africa’s peace parks today incorporate over half of the declared conservation estate in the region. At over […]
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Cooking Up A Storm To Encourage Legal And Sustainable Foods For The Lunar New Year Holidays, Instead Of Threatened Wildlife
19 Jan 2017
Madelon Willemsen, Head of Office for TRAFFIC in Viet Nam said, “We are holding this competition with CWD because Vietnamese women have a great deal of influence in their families. They are providers,...
General, Rhino Protection Programme, Wildlife Crime
Traffic Brings Hospitality Enterprises Together To Stop Illegal Wildlife Trade
12 Jan 2017
“We know consumer tourism takes place in Viet Nam and hotels and tourism companies are uniquely suited to promote zero-tolerance towards illegal wildlife consumption—they are experts at customer relations and they interact with...
General, Lubombo TFCA, Maputo Special Reserve
Conscious Conservation
09 Jan 2017
The reserve was proclaimed as far back as 1932, specifically to protect the coastal elephants. Then in 1969, the area was found to have numerous endemic plant species so in 2010 the reserve’s...
Community Development, General
Communities And Conservation
26 Dec 2016
The 26 farmers in the project each have 11 rows of chillies totalling 1.5 hectares. From this they produce nine tonnes of bird’s eye chillies a year, all sold to Nando's, a popular...
General, Rhino Protection Programme, Wildlife Crime
Pres The Balance Of Nature To Traditional Medicine Schools
29 Nov 2016
TRAFFIC and the National Centre for Health Communication and Education (T5G) held training sessions for TM leaders and educators as part of their ongoing efforts to reduce the demand for illegal wildlife...
