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Poaching continues to put at risk the survival of the Giant Sable Antelope, an emblematic species and national symbol of Angola. The warning was made this Thursday by the coordinator of the conservation project of the Kissama Foundation, Pedro Vaz Pinto, during the ceremony that marked the 30 years of existence of the initiative. The expert stressed that the antelope, considered the rarest in the world, remains on the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as "critically endangered".

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has taken another bold step in the global fight against wildlife trafficking, seizing 9,493 kg of pangolin scales in one of the largest wildlife crime busts in recent years. The Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Adewale Adeniyi, disclosed these developments at a press briefing held at the Customs Training College in Lagos on Wednesday, 16 October 2024, as part of the service’s ongoing enforcement activities.

Vietnamese syndicates play an outsized, sophisticated role in the illicit trade of elephant ivory, rhinoceros horn, pangolin scales, and other wildlife products, according to a recent undercover investigation by the Environmental Investigation Agency that details sourcing, packing, and transporting ivory and rhino horn through an intricate maze of transport routes out of various African ports to Malaysia, then through Laos, and finally overland into Vietnam. The numbers are staggering.