Ebbing away: Hong Kong's ivory trade
As Hong Kong moves towards the final step of a landmark ivory ban, TRAFFIC has released a report that acknowledges progress, but urges tighter regulation on privately owned ivory stocks, antique ivory
Hong Kong
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Opinion survey on COVID-19 and wildlife trade in 5 Asian markets
<p>The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has brought the link between zoonotic diseases – those transmitted from animals to humans – and wildlife markets into sharp focus. An online survey conducted
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The World's Knowledge Network for the Sustainable Development Goals
<p>The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN),launched in 2012, mobilizes global scientific and technological expertise to promote practical problem solving for the Sustainable Development Goals
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Systematic assessment of the sex ratio at birth for all countries and estimation of national imbalances and regional reference levels
<p>The sex ratio at birth (SRB; ratio of male to female live births) imbalance in parts of the world over the past few decades is a direct consequence of sex-selective abortion, driven by the coexistence
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Hong Kong researchers discover over 7,000 new marine species
Over 7,000 new microbial species in the oceans were discovered by researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), which made the results public on Monday. The new species
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An assessment of South African dried abalone Haliotis midae consumption and trade in Hong Kong
A new TRAFFIC report reveals a thriving trade in poached South African abalone Haliotis midae in Hong Kong, where the marine mollusc is considered a delicacy in Cantonese cuisine. Over the last 20 years,
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A dynamic three-dimensional air pollution exposure model for Hong Kong
With rapid urbanization, high-density, high-rise megacities have become very common globally. So far, models to estimate exposure to air pollution have been largely two-dimensional. HEI’s Research Report,
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Severe Typhoon Hato wreaks havoc in Hong Kong, flights cancelled, trading delayed
- Hong Kong braced for Typhoon Hato, a maximum category 10 storm on Wednesday, with hundreds of flights cancelled, trading in financial markets suspended and schools and most businesses in the Asian financial
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UK named as world's largest legal ivory exporter
Britain was the world’s largest exporter of legal ivory between 2010 and 2015, a breakdown of records held by the Convention on international trade in endangered species (Cites) has revealed. Not only
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Hong Kong closes 13 beaches as stinking, congealed palm oil washes ashore
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong has closed more than a dozen beaches after a palm oil spill washed foul-smelling, Styrofoam-like clumps ashore, the latest major environmental disaster to blight the territory's