Today, the UN General Assembly adopts its first Resolution ever on wildlife trafficking !

This has been fully supported by the European Union and its 28 Member-States.

With special thanks and congratulations to the two co-chairs of the Group of Friends on Poaching and Illicit Wildlife Trafficking, Gabon and Germany, and to our colleagues of the EU Delegation to the UN in New York!

Find also the official statement of the EU and its Member-States, as was read by the EU Ambassador to the United Nations,