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Thailand will halt its domestic ivory trade, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra announced, promising legislation after criticism by environmental groups.
Thailand allows its nationals to trade in ivory from elephants that have died of natural causes inside its borders. But activists say ivory from Africa is "laundered" through the country.
South Africa and Vietnam are set to sign a landmark deal to help stem rhino poaching and the illicit trade in rhino horns, activists and officials say.
The Mr Bigs of wildlife trafficking profit from Asia's lax laws, corruption and sheer size.
Poachers have slaughtered 200 elephants in Cameroon, with ivory profits fuelling regional conflicts.
The past 12 months has seen a record number of large ivory seizures across the world, confirming a sharp increase in the illegal trade in recent years.
Wildlife activists have called for the Tokay Gecko to be protected under international laws following a spike in smuggling of the lizard, mainly for medicine in China.
South African officials are in Vietnam to discuss was of curbing the illegal trade in rhino horns used in traditional Asian medicine, a conservation group says.
Rhino poaching is organised crime by Asian-run, African-based criminal gangs.
The four Johannesburg testing and licensing offices that were closed due to a technical problem with eNatis and a union meeting, have reopened.
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