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CITES Announces Network to Fight Illegal Timber Trade, Wildlife Crime in S. Asia

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species has announced that on January 30, 2011, the South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SA-WEN) was launched to bring together wildlife law enforcement agencies from eight South Asian countries, to improve coordination against…

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wildlife criminals. The CITES Secretariat stated that South Asia suffers significantly from illegal trade in timber and many rare forms of plants and wildlife crime.