Overexploitation (harvesting at a rate that exceeds the ability of populations to recover) is a major driver of biodiversity ...

The majority of travellers arrive by air into Tashkent, the modern political capital of the nation, which gained independence in 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The remnants of Soviet ...

Once a crossroads of empires and ideas, Uzbekistan remains one of the best-preserved witnesses to the Silk Road’s influence on architecture, learning and spiritual life.

A significant milestone in this regard was the first Strategic Dialogue between the Foreign Ministers of Uzbekistan and Japan ...

The international wildlife trade is a multibillion-dollar industry that impacts hundreds of millions of plants and animals. It is often fueled by unsustainable demand for imperiled species and their ...

The Saiga (antelope) in Kazakhstan has rebounded from dangerously low numbers and has been recognized as a success by the ...

At the "Powering the Future" forum in Tashkent, Uzbekistan unveiled 42 renewable, storage, and grid projects, with ...

Experts at the 20th CITES Conference reveal wildlife crime worth up to €22B annually, putting 40,000+ species at risk and boosting tech monitoring efforts.View on euronews ...

Sloths, sharks, rays, and okapi gained stronger CITES protections at CoP20, with new Appendix I and II listings.

Qatar, represented by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, participated in the high-level meeting preceding the 20th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in ...

Iran and Uzbekistan will support the implementation of 10 research projects following a joint call by the Iran National ...

As CITES CoP20 closes in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, TRAFFIC notes highlights from the event, as well as some disappointments.