Dan Stiles
@kenyadan.bsky.social
Wildlife conservation and illegal trade expert, researching IWT transnational organized crime and social media trafficking networks.
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...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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....
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November 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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...
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November 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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...
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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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...
economictimes.indiatimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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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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
🌐 www.systemchange-movie.de
System Change - A story of growing resistance - Film - Gathr
Two thousand cops challenge two hundred tree squatters in an ancient forest in the middle of Germany that is to make way for a nonsensical motorway. The political and legal struggle against the constr...
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July 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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
🌐 www.systemchange-movie.de
EIA worked for years investigating the Lin-Zhang trafficking op a get a conviction. Corrupt president frees them www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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.
Conservationists are afraid of legal action from Vantara so keep quiet www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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.
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June 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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.
Conservationists are afraid of legal action from Vantara so keep quiet www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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.
www.abc.net.au
April 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Conservationists are afraid of legal action from Vantara so keep quiet www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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...
Dodgy deal between DRC wildlife authorities and Vantara in India
This is an expanded, revised article from one published in Africa Geographic.
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April 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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...
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-...
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
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April 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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-...
Vantara, Star of the Forest, now has over 150,000 animals. Are they all really "rescues"? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CBi...
PM Narendra Modi Inaugurates Vantara Wildlife Rescue Centre | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18L
YouTube video by Firstpost
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March 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Vantara, Star of the Forest, now has over 150,000 animals. Are they all really "rescues"? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CBi...
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...
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...
armando.info
March 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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...
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...
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
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March 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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...
Read about Ham, the first hominid to go into space, even before Yuri Gagarin. freetheapes.org/2025/03/10/d...
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 …
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March 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Read about Ham, the first hominid to go into space, even before Yuri Gagarin. freetheapes.org/2025/03/10/d...
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...
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
www.independent.co.uk
March 6, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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...
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.
freetheapes.org/2025/02/27/c...
freetheapes.org/2025/02/27/c...
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…
freetheapes.org
February 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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...
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February 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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...
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...
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.
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February 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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...
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February 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands to send four gorillas to China. Must be some good money in that. www.facebook.com/story.php?st...
Gorilla trafficking ring in Nigeria under investigation. oxpeckers.org/2025/02/glob...
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...
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February 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Gorilla trafficking ring in Nigeria under investigation. oxpeckers.org/2025/02/glob...
The Humane Society of the US is changing its name after repeated scandals and bad press www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/ja...
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...
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January 31, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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.
January 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This is the life trafficked baby chimpanzees live in the UAE.
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...
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…
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January 28, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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...