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From sharks, rhinos to giraffes - they are the focus of the species conservation conference in Samarkand. As of November 24, 185 states in Uzbekistan will be wrestling over trade bans and restrictions. There is a lot at stake: the fate of more than 230 animal and plant species is being decided. The organization Pro Wildlife warns in advance of dangerous steps backwards in the Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which regulates or even prohibits the international trade in plants and animals.

04 August 2025 Devil's Claw has oddly shaped fruit with spikes that look like claws to deter animals. The plant's tubers are highly sought after for medicinal use as they are considered to have anti-inflammatory properties. Peace Parks Foundation in western Zambia's Sioma Ngwezi National Park, a little-known medicinal plant is vanishing - not from overuse by local communities, but at the hands of international crime syndicates.

In 2020, a bank in Singapore found that one of its customers had paid $130,000 to a South African supplier for 11 cheetahs. Though the animals were transported directly from the source country to the destination country and never transited through Singapore, the money passed through the customer’s bank account here. The bank, which was not named by the authorities, filed a suspicious transaction report (STR) and terminated the customer relationship.