What a venue! #ICWTHK2024 is being held at Tai Kwun. The former HK Central Police Station Compound, opened in 1925, restored 2018, and now a cultural and arts centre. A brilliant interdisciplinary setting to match the conference!

ICWT2024 has begun! I’ve been so excited about this conference, so nice to see it all come together! Congratulations to the team, everything has been amazing so far! So good to have all of these amazing people together in one room!

Great selection talks followed by a very thought-provoking panel discussion to kick off #icwt2024

Amazing first day at #icwt2024 discussing #wildlifetrade with officials, NGOs and #forensic experts from around #Asia. 🌏🐅🧫🦜🧬🌱🔬🥼 Huge thanks to all the wonderful #volunteers for making this happen! Alex Astrid Chloe Hatten

First day of #ICWTHK2024 was full of fascinating talks! @ICWT_hk I particularly enjoyed Prof Dirk Pfeiffer’s overall emphasis on the need for more human-focused solutions including #behaviourchange approaches to tackle wildlife trade issues from his veterinary perspective.

Another great panel discussion and morning of talks at #icwt2024. Very interesting talks by Hei Sung from The University of Suffolk, Shaun Martin from WWF HK and Sam Inglis from ADMCF

Afternoon talks highlighting great work being carried out all over! Jessica Lee from Mandai Nature, Annie Song from Korea, Rebecca Wong from CityU and Agostinho Antunes from Portugal

Greta Frankham shares on #shellbank and the kickoff of the HK chapter of Shellbank last week. We had a great week in the lab and it was a very successful start! #icwt2024

Smashing out their speed talks we have Hubert Cheung currently based in Rome, Portia Wong from HKU and Andy Lee from Resolve #icwt2024

#icwt2024 final talk session starting with our own HKU Even Leung presenting some of her timber trade work, then Ming Chuan Woo from HK birdwatching society on their helmeted hornbill work and Jessica Rizzolo from Oregon state university presenting some of her TCM research

I loved presenting some of my PhD research today at @ICWT_hk 🐘 In nearly a call and response fashion, many previous speakers called for behavior change initiatives to help tackle demand for wildlife… So I was happy to share insights on how we can do that effectively for ivory!

Challenges faced when combatting #wildlifecrime include weak enforcement investigation/forensic capacity & lack of cooperation - v. Interesting keynote at #SWFS2024 by Jenna Dawson-Faber from UNODC Environment Team #SWFS #wildlifeforensics #conference SWFS

Excited to be repping #HongKong alongside Alex Astrid Tracey-Leigh Prigge 👩🏻‍🔬🧬🧪🇿🇦🇭🇰 Even Leung (girl team!) at the 7th SWFS conference in #Malaysia ! Great talks so far from the Director General of Jabatan PERHILITAN , UN Office on Drugs & Crime , and more from global labs on #wildlifeforensicscience 🌳🐘🐸🦜

. Chloe Hatten sharing her #research on #forensic tools to detect #illegal #wildlifetrade in Helmeted #Hornbill at SWFS ✊💚 #SWFS2024 #wildlife

Honoured to have spoken to >150 delegates from >114 countries on #Helmeted #Hornbill #wildlifeforensics #enforcement #outreach & #speciesvictimimpactstatements work in #HongKong 🦅🧬 at #SWFS2024 SWFS in #KualaLumpur HKU_Science Conservation Forensics @HKU The University of Hong Kong #HKU #FacultyofLaw

#SarawakForestryCorporation have a lot on their hands! So much #endangeredwildlife been seized there over the last few years. Glad to hear of the newly developed #wildlifeforensic lab at #SFC to help tackle #wildlifecrime in Sarawak, Malaysia 🐸 🐘 🐯 🦅 👏🏼

Amazing work done by Lucy Webster from SASA on distinguishing between #falcon #wild vs #captive breeding in the #UK using #DNAprofiling techniques to link parents to offspring individuals for #wildlifeforensics 🦅 🦅 🦅 SWFS #SWFS2024

Great talk by Alex Astrid on using multiple methods - #stableisotopes #csia and #DNAparentage techniques - to determine #captive and #wild origin of #yellowcrestedcockatoos in #hongkong 🦜 SWFS #SWFS2024 HKU_Science Conservation Forensics @HKU HKU School of Biological Sciences The University of Hong Kong

Where did these #pangolin scales come from in Africa? Ongoing work by Tracey-Leigh Prigge 👩🏻‍🔬🧬🧪🇿🇦🇭🇰 for her #PhD combines #stableisotopeanalysis and #genomics to determine geographic origin of #seized scales 💪🏼 ⚛️🧬🧑🏻‍🔬 SWFS #SWFS2024 HKU_Science Conservation Forensics @HKU HKU School of Biological Sciences The University of Hong Kong

📢📢 Pleased to announce the publication of our paper in Conservation Biology - triangulating datasources to provide a clearer picture on the ornamental #wildlifetrade, using #helmetedhornbill as a case study 🦅✨ SCB #ConservationBiology Dr Caroline Dingle conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…