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In response to the decision by the CITES committee to accept Resolution 15.6, Cooperation between CITES and the World Heritage Convention, WWF issued the following statement from Colman O Criodain, Policy Manager, Wildlife Practice.

Scientists have developed a test to extract DNA from hawksbill turtle products, including tortoiseshell jewelry. The novel method could be a major tool to track small and large-scale operations still targeting hawksbills for the illegal trade.

Protecting and restoring forests and urgently revamping the global food system through dietary change are the key solutions to the escalating land and climate crisis, an authoritative UN report has found.

Our climate is in crisis. In the past few weeks alone, searing global heat has led to wildfires in the Arctic and across Siberia at unprecedented scales and record levels of ice melt across Greenland as climate change contributed 1.5 to 3°C to the European heatwave. Indian cities are facing a water crisis and water scarcity fears are escalating globally with warming of ‘just’ 1°C above pre-industrial levels.

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A Greenpeace Russia team is documenting wildfires in the Taiga forest, in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia. Despite statements by Russian authorities, the intensity of forest fires in Siberia is not decreasing. The 4.3 million hectare fire — an area larger than Denmark — is contributing significantly to climate change. Since the beginning of the year a total of 13.1 million hectares has burned.

Activists from Greenpeace Germany were peacefully protesting the import of soya from destroyed forest and savanna regions in Brazil, carried on the cargo ship “Hiroshima Star” in the Lower Weser river of Germany, on August 4.

In partnership with the African Union, leaders of four multilateral agencies – The African Development Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Bank-- called a high-level meeting with development partners on August 5-6 in Kigali, Rwanda at the first Africa Food Security Leadership Dialogue (AFSLD).

Desertification threatens the village of Tantaverom. Mbo Malloumu has taken the initiative to plant acacia seedlings to rehabilitate the land. In the past 50 years, Lake Chad basin shrank from 25,000 square kilometers to 2,000square kilometers.