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Reports say social media is integral to wildlife trafficking infrastructure

Campaigns, Chimpanzees, Partnerships, Wildlife traffickingJuly 23, 20263KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Reports suggest Facebook has become wildlife trafficking's biggest marketplace Three major reports released during 2026 paint a concerning picture of how social media platforms, particularly Meta's Facebook ecosystem, have become central to the global trade in threatened and protected species. Together, the reports argue that online wildlife trafficking is no longer simply a conservation issue.…

Adult and baby elephant in the wild. The adult has large tusks.

JGI joins a historic global coalition to abolish trophy hunting

Campaigns, Chimpanzees, Dr. Jane Goodall, Partnerships, Wildlife traffickingJuly 1, 20262KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The Jane Goodall Institute calls for trophy hunting to end Hundreds of household names have joined with wildlife experts, former Presidents, African community leaders, religious and Indigenous leaders, to call on the UN to abolish trophy hunting, which claims tens of thousands of endangered animals every year. Our founder, Dr. Jane Goodall, was at the…

Seeds of Hope from CITES CoP20

Campaigns, Chimpanzees, Partnerships, Wildlife traffickingJanuary 12, 20263KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Seeds of Hope at CITES CoP20 In this blog, JGI wildlife crime expert Dr Zara Bending shares some of her takeaways from CITES CoP20 (the 20th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which took place from November 24th – December 5th in Samarkand,…

Our call to CITES CoP20 in light of urgent chimpanzee trafficking concerns

Chimpanzees, Ethics and Guidance, Wildlife traffickingNovember 28, 20252KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Our call to CITES CoP20 in light of urgent chimpanzee trafficking concerns "The trafficking in chimpanzees is happening at industrial scale, we must act now." The Jane Goodall Institute calls for action at CITES CoP20 Three infant chimpanzees vanished from Kinshasa’s N’Sele Zoo between the evening of November 23rd and the morning of November 24th,…

JGI joins a historic global coalition to abolish trophy hunting

Seeds of Hope from CITES CoP20

Our call to CITES CoP20 in light of urgent chimpanzee trafficking concerns

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