ROCKLAND The Rockland Public Library presents Richard Crossman and Wendy Crossman, Thursday, November 16, at 6 p.m. This event is free and open to all. Richard and Wendy Crossman will share images and stories from their photographic safari in.
The Nature Crime Alliance launches today, hosted by World Resources Institute, with Norway, the United States, Gabon, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), UNODC, and Interpol joining major environmental groups as founding members. VANCOUVER (August 23, 2023) A new global initiative that is building bridges across disciplinary, geographic, and jurisdictional domains in the fight against nature crime officially launches today.
In 1973, countries came together and signed a historic treaty to stop the international trade of endangered species. 50 years later, the CITES agreement has never been updated, even as species go extinct faster than ever.
CITES was designed 50 years ago to regulate trade in certain species, not fight transnational organised crime. We must now embed tackling it into the international criminal law framework