Dan Stiles

Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security By Dr Daniel Stiles On 20 January 2026, the UK government released a report entitled Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security. While aimed at raising awareness about threats...

The Starmer government is suppressing its own report www.patrolling.org/global-biodi...

India defies the CITES Secretariat's order to cease the issuing of Appendix I import permits until their due diligence practices could be reviewed at SC 81 (in about a year). They will continue to allow Vantara to import endangered species animals from suspect sources cites.org/sites/defaul...

Vantara is hovering up big cats for Anant's private collection www.patrolling.org/where-have-a....

The Indian CITES MA has been reprimanded by the Secretariat for not practicing proper due diligence in verifying that animal imports to Vantara conform with the regulations. India must report back on what measures they plan to take to rectify the situation cites.org/.../files/do...

Supreme Court appointed SIT gives clean chit to Vantara The Supreme Court-appointed SIT has cleared Vantara, a zoological rescue and rehabilitation center in Gujarat, of any wrongdoing. The apex court bench, after reviewing the SIT report, noted the author...

As I suspected, the India Supreme Court so-called investigation of Vantara, the zoo that has been accused of trafficking thousands of wild animals, was a greenwashing sham.

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Exposed: The big business of selling South Africa’s big cats to Ambani’s Indian mega-zoo - Currency News The zoo – run by the son of India’s richest man – is under investigation for claims its animals have been bought illegally.

A new article on Vantara funny business just out.

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Klaus Sparwasser’s film “System Change – A Story of Growing Resistance” will officially go online on July 24, 2025 – right on time for Earth Overshoot Day, the day when humanity has used up all the natural resources the planet can regenerate in a year.

🌐 www.systemchange-movie.de

Notorious poaching gang leaders pardoned in Malawi Decision raises concern among conservationists and public health officials, who fear a return to large-scale poaching could spread disease

EIA worked for years investigating the Lin-Zhang trafficking op a get a conviction. Corrupt president frees them www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

I had an article in edit with Mongabay on a huge illegal wildlife supplier to Vantara (~7,200 animals), planned to be published quite soon, and the India Mongabay office insisted it be spiked because they feared Ambani backlash. Mongabay caved, it's been spiked.

Why conservationists are afraid to criticise India's largest zoo Conservationists and journalists say they’re being threatened with legal action after raising questions about the impact of India's largest zoo.

Conservationists are afraid of legal action from Vantara so keep quiet www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Dodgy deal between DRC wildlife authorities and Vantara in India This is an expanded, revised article from one published in Africa Geographic.

More information in this expended version of the article reporting on irregular exports of chimpanzees from the DRC to Vantara in India. medium.com/@danielstile...

How DRC's endangered chimpanzees end up in a billionaire’s Indian zoo - Africa Geographic Controversy erupts over wild chimpanzees trafficked from DRC to India’s Vantara Zoo using suspect CITES permits. NGOs demand global action

Story of how the DRC wildlife authorities conspired with an Indian billionaire's emissary to ship off chimpanzees caught in the wild to the Vantara "rescue and rehabilitation" center africageographic.com/stories/how-...

YouTube video by Firstpost PM Narendra Modi Inaugurates Vantara Wildlife Rescue Centre | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18L

Vantara, Star of the Forest, now has over 150,000 animals. Are they all really "rescues"? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CBi...

Un marajá petrolero recibe ofrendas de fauna venezolana Mukesh Ambani es el hombre más rico de India y propietario de Reliance Industries, un importante cliente de Pdvsa. El magnate además recibe una ñapa desde Venezuela: miles de animales que, a través de...

Explosive exposé on Venezuelan commercial sales of endangered animal species, with prices, proves that Vantara is buying, not "rescuing" them. armando.info/un-maraja-pe...

Indien: Gigantisches Zooprojekt - der Milliardär und seine 181 Löwen Wie das gigantische Zooprojekt eines indischen Milliardärs den internationalen Schattenmarkt für geschützte Tiere angeheizt haben könnte

New investigative report on Vantara in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. It asserts that the zoo has more than 39,000 animals, many acquired from highly suspect suppliers. Supply lists of traders are now so low, that wild-capture to satisfy Vantara's demand is necessary. www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Discover What Happened to ‘Ham’ – The First Chimpanzee Launched Into Space Ed note: A wonderful tribute to Ham, the first hominid to travel into space, published by Written by Doug Shaffer First published: March 5, 2025 Ham was the first chimpanzee to participate in …

Read about Ham, the first hominid to go into space, even before Yuri Gagarin. freetheapes.org/2025/03/10/d...

Modi feeds lion cubs as he inaugurates controversial private zoo run by Ambani family Vantara zoo, pet project of the son of Asia’s richest man, faces questions about sourcing of animals

India's Prime Minister Modi inaugurates the largest alleged wildlife trafficking collection the world has ever seen, Vantara. www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/m...

Concern: will Congo’s primate sanctuaries be used to “fill” zoos, including abroad? Ed. note: This article is translated from French from Geo magazine. While the Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the grip of violent clashes, the capital’s zoo plans to acquire great apes…

The EAGLE Network reports that 12 chimpanzees have gone from the Kinshasa Zoo in DRC to GZRRC in India, the largest private zoo in the world belonging to India's richest man.

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GI-TOC points out that the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species is the only multilateral environmental agreement to contain an obligation to penalize some illegal activities affecting the environment, but don't have CITES CoP20 in Figure 1 globalinitiative.net/wp-content/u...

Le sombre et juteux trafic de grands singes vers le zoo d’un magnat indien LETTRE DES ANIMAUX. Des sanctuaires de primates et des associations redoutent que leurs pensionnaires leur soient enlevés et envoyés vers un gigantesque temple animalier, en Inde.

Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature has shipped off 12 chimps from DRC to Vantara, the largest zoo in the world belonging to India's richest man. Vantara is sucking in wildlife globally www.lepoint.fr/societe/le-s...

Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands to send four gorillas to China. Must be some good money in that. www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Nigerian link in global gorilla trafficking - Oxpeckers Daniel Stiles investigates organised transnational networks smuggling great apes from Africa via Nigeria Five-month-old Zeytin was seized in Istanbul by customs officials. Photo courtesy the Turkish T...

Gorilla trafficking ring in Nigeria under investigation. oxpeckers.org/2025/02/glob...

Why is the Humane Society of the United States changing its name? The Humane Society of the United States announced that it will change its name to “Humane World for Animals.” The decision is curious given that the organization rakes in roughly $170 million a year i...

The Humane Society of the US is changing its name after repeated scandals and bad press www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/ja...

This is the life trafficked baby chimpanzees live in the UAE.

Greenwashing on an industrial scale with billionaire’s private zoo in India On 26 February 2024 Vantara, meaning ‘Star of the Forest’ in Hindi, was officially launched in Jamnagar, India. Vantara was originally…

Vantara presents itself as a huge new wildlife "rescue & rehabilitation" center in India. In reality it drives wildlife trafficking across the world medium.com/@danielstile...

Is Trump serious? The importer (American companies) pay import tariffs and duties, not the exporter. The cost will be passed on to American consumers.

The Ugandan police released the trafficker with a caution, not the way to stop wildlife trafficking. He will no doubt try again.

Two African grey parrots seized in Entebbe airport with a Congolese courier, on their way to Saudi Arabia.

Can one baby gorilla rescued in Istanbul stop the deadly great ape traffic? - Animals 24-7 The Istanbul baby gorilla is one among thousands bootlegged out of war-torn central Africa

Good article, but Bua Noi means Little Lotus, not Bwana, which was an earlier gorilla to Pata. www.animals24-7.org/2024/12/24/c....