Press Conference on Efforts to Stop Illegal Trade and Trafficking of Wildlife

Press Briefing by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) will brief on the efforts to stop the illegal trade and trafficking of wildlife, including outcomes of the 2017 global anti-wildlife trafficking operation and latest figures of elephant poaching in Africa.

• Categories: Media / Press Conferences
• Video Length: 00:46:33
• Production Date: 3 March 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE ORGANIZATION - INTERPOL; UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME - UNODC
• Subject Topical: ENDANGERED SPECIES; WILDLIFE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
• MAMS Id: 1842086
• Parent Id: 1841988

Description

Kelvin Alie, Vice President for Conservation and Animal Welfare at the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW); Sheldon Jordan, Chair of the Wildlife Crime Working Group at Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization); Jorge Rios, Chief of the Global Programme for Combating Wildlife and Forest Crime at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); John Scanlon, Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES), address a press briefing by CITES and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on the efforts to stop the illegal trade and trafficking of wildlife, including outcomes of the 2017 global anti-wildlife trafficking operation and latest figures of elephant poaching in Africa.