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LONDON, 20 July 2021: The World Travel & Tourism Council has released major new guidelines outlining how the global Travel & Tourism sector can work together to tackle illegal wildlife trade (IWT). The new guidelines from WTTC, which represents the global private travel and tourism sector, with support from Animondial, a key advisor to the global travel industry on animal welfare in tourism, aiming to help interpret the ‘12 Commitments’ of its game-changing Buenos Aires Declaration. The declaration, which was launched at WTTC’s Global Summit in Argentina, showed how coordinated commitme...

John Scanlon on the Case for Criminalizing Wildlife Trafficking under International Law “The world is still feeling the full brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic which most likely had its origins in a wild animal,” says John Scanlon AO, Former Secretary-General of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) and Chair of the Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime, in this week’s Friday Podcast. Scanlon spoke at a recent Wilson Center event on the connections between wildlife crime, human health, and security. “The world is still feeling the f...

It took years, but Gluckstadt is now an official city.

It took years, but Gluckstadt is now an official city.

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has hired Lisa Connaughton as head of company secretarial operations in Dublin, further boosting its financial services capabilities in Ireland.