Partners Against Wildlife Crime

BEST OF #EU #PartnersAgainstWildlifeCrime - Want to know how the #EuropeanUnion partners with civil society to counter #wildlifetrafficking in #SoutheastAsia and China? Find out more through our project stories 👉brussels.wcs.org/Our-Work/Wildl… 🇪🇺 @EU_Partnerships #EndWildlifeCrime now!

JUST IN: welcoming our 500th follower! What a happy ending! 🙏 🙏 🙏

3/3. The turtle is being rehabilitated; once fully recovered, it will be returned to the river. Although they normally don't name their turtles, in light of its incredibly good fortune to be rescued by a sympathetic fisherman, the team couldn’t resist dubbing this one “#Lucky”!

2/3. Another few minutes underwater and the endangered turtle surely would have succumbed. The turtle was still responsive but experiencing difficulty walking. 🇰🇭 Turtle Conservation Team leader @ssomsr applied epoxy to ensure the sonic transmitter remained attached to the shell.

1/3. @TurtleSurvival. A fisherman in Sre Ambel river just contacted @TheWCS #Cambodia to report the recovery of one of the translocated Southern River Terrapins 🐢. The turtle had become entangled in a submerged “ghost net” and was almost dead when finally brought to the surface.

3/3. 🔖 This work is funded by 🇪🇺 @EU_Partnerships in Vietnam within the framework of the project #EU #PartnersAgainstWildlifeCrime coordinated by @TheWCS #Vietnam in which #PanNature is one of the project's implementing partners.

2/3. The open letter is a #PanNature’s effort following the study report on the status of online 🐢 turtle 🐢 trading 🐢 on #Facebook and #YouTube, which was published jointly with @AsianTurtlePro. For details: 👉nature.org.vn/en/2022/12/ope…

1/3. Open Letter from @PanNature to @facebook and @YouTube about Combating Online Wildlife Trade, requesting these two major social media platforms to review existing regulations and apply more effective mechanisms to eliminate wildlife trading #IWT online. #EndWildlifeCrime now!

Read the full study HERE 👉dropbox.com/s/efj77n1bmv2v…

Science Friday! How Artificial Intelligence (AI) helps identify animals in camera traps. A new study led by @TheWCS #Afghanistan shows that AI effectively reduces the misclassification of individual snow leopards in camera trap survey, improving significantly abundance estimates.

That happened this month at the San Waddy Women-Led Business Networking meeting during which graduates from @EUCWT project site joined other SW graduates from Rakhine coastal areas and the Ayeyarwaddy Delta to listen, exchange, advertise and plan for future joint activities. GO!

3/3. As the year ends, a refreshing look at #EU #PartnersAgainstWildlifeCrime project's #gender-oriented work in #Myanmar. Part #3: a key activity of the San Waddy program is networking, to explore together new business opportunities and exchange knowledge among all SW graduates.

1/3. As the year ends, a refreshing look at #EU #PartnersAgainstWildlifeCrime project's #gender-oriented work in #Myanmar. Part #1: aiming to correctly grasp women's perception of the use of local natural resources, of their given roles in village conservation committees, and...

A wild elephant decided to steal some sugarcane for a snack from the back of a passing lorry in Chachoengsao province on Wednesday. (Photo from We Love Khao Yai FB.) #Thailand #WhatsHappeningInThailand #KE

#SouthAsia - 112 #tiger deaths recorded across #India this year (Note: 112 is the NTCA figure, WPSI give a figure of 136) mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-…

'Thailand remains a hub of wildlife trafficking for the exotic pet trade. A recent report by @TRAFFIC_WLTrade said that almost 1,000 live animals were seized this year at Suvarnabhumi as part of attempts to smuggle them as exotic pets outside the country.' bangkokpost.com/thailand/gener…