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Safeguarding Global Coral Trade: The Power of a New Visual Guide for Border Inspections

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Pieces of hard coral during import check at Heathrow. Photo credit. Border Force.

It’s a dark, damp evening in February 2023 when staff from UK Border Force’s CITES team are called to Heathrow’s Animal Reception Centre to inspect a shipment of hard coral. A mismatch between the CITES permit and its packing list …

How science, partnerships and innovation are key to tackling illegal trade of sharks and rays in Indonesia

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Blacktip reef shark 

A standardised training programme for shark and ray trade inspectors, a team of 20 expert trainers increasing staff capacity nationally and a global expert in identifying shark products from DNA are just some of the highlights delivered as part of …

Training the trainers: safeguarding international trade in threatened shark species in Indonesia

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shark fins across the ground

As the new year dawned and monsoon rains deluged Jakarta, spirits were not dampened as a team of internationally renowned scientists and 20 enthusiastic shark product inspectors were heading to the Indonesian capital to collaborate on the long-anticipated ‘training the …

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