Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES), will hold the seventeenth regular meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP17) in South Africa, September 24 to October 5, 2016. IWB is keen for the United Kingdom and United States to take a lead role in …
Meeting of World Leaders in Lion Conservation Convened by WildCRU and Panthera at the Recanati-Kaplan Centre in Oxford in 2016. The announcement in August 2015 by Wild CRU and Panthera is that they are “organizing and hosting a landmark summit for range wide lion conservation in 2016, in honour of Cecil the lion, whose death triggered …
World Rhino Day Website – To highlight the plight of the rhinoceros, Tuesday the 22 September 2015 has been designated as “World Rhino Day”- #WorldRhinoDay Rhino populations are under sever threat from poaching to satisfying demand across swathes of Asia, where rhino horn is considered to have medicinal properties and is …
Petition U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Call to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S. FWS) to fast track African lions and urgently cover them under the Endangered Species Act*. The call could also be made for the U.S. FWS to seek CITES Appendix I listing for the African lion – showing that …
Petition Air Canada It is believed that the American lobby group, Safari Club International (SCI) is trying to pressure Air Canada (and perhaps other airlines) to reverse the August 2015 decision to ban the transportation of hunting trophies. The above petition seeks to reinforce the message that the existing ban remains popular among ‘regular’ Air Canada clients and …
Four Paws’ Petition – Stop Canned Hunting! So far nearly 150,000 people have signed the Four Paws petition “Stop Canned Hunting!” – but more signatures are needed. Four Paws has been helping animals around the world for over 25 years. IWB fully supports Four Paws’ campaign against animal abuse and the work …
The IWB has written to The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to ask what the United Kingdom will be doing to protect engendered and threatened species, particularly with the forthcoming opportunity to take a stance at the Conference of the Parties …
Extradite Walter Palmer Petition Walter Palmer (Cecil the lion’s killer in July 2015) returned to River Bluff Dental, Bloomington, Minnesota practice today (8 September 2015), but encountered continued controversy, protestors and media attention. Walter Palmer’s family have been under intense scrutiny and strain, but Walter Palmer remains unapologetic and defiant restating that (in his own deluded opinion) …
Urgent Review to the Law and Level of Sentencing for Animal Abuse Crimes Please consider adding your signature (if you have not already done so) to call on the UK government to enhance animal abuse sentencing. Thank you…. Change.org – Petition Link The recent case of ‘Blaze’, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in August …
The Daily Telegraph – 14 September 2015 According to Carte Blanche TV, the final death toll from the Limpopo Driven hunt was 98 animals, but the species and suffering are still being assessed: Carte Blanche Driven Hunt Video ________________________________________________________________________ Stop the Limpopo Driven Hunt Petition _________________________________________________________________________ BAT reporting that today, 11 September, that …
