Backlash from last week’s show reminds us that unity in conservation is a win and should be treated as such. With one week to go until the deadline to submit comments to South Africa’s Minister of Forrest, Fisheries and the Environment, we encourage all to support the bill. 138kg of rhino horn seized in Vietnam - and with it 3 tonnes of lion bones. Is this an indication of things to come as lion breeders begin to offload stock en mass ahead of the ban of the captive lion breeding industry  in South Africa? Is it a case of no news is good news when it comes to the lack of info since the assassination of alleged rhino patching kingpin Petros Mabuza?  The UK is looking to add whale and walrus ivory to its potential ban on animal trophies. what’s the difference between conservation and animal welfare? Aaron Gekoski is set to launch a new documentary exposing the atrocities of wildlife tourism in south east Asia, entitled The Eyes of the Orangutan.  The EIA releases a report on biodiversity ahead of the conference in China in a few months - but will the conference in China really change anything? We try to set our cynicism aside. Unsuccessfully. Will Branson and Bezos going to space mean anything for the planet? We think so… Cory Booker reintroduced a bill to reign in the rampant and misleading industrial beef and pork farmers. Mexico reduces protections for the vaquita, undermining the incredible work by the likes of Earth League International and others to bring the totoaba trade to book in the gulf of California. Surely it is time for there to be international repercussions for transgressing international treaties like CITES? If CITES has no jurisdiction to impose sanctions, then who can? We support the call for the International Criminal Court to introduce the charge of ecocide.