‘Terror being waged on wildlife', leaders warn

National and conservation leaders say the annihilation of nature is a dangerous 'blight on humanity', ahead of major summit

" Dominic Jermey: This corrupt, illegal war on wildlife makes losers of us all

Humanity is waging a war of terror on wildlife across the globe, according to the head of a world-leading research institute who was previously a counter-terrorism expert for the UK government.

Dominic Jermey, director general of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), also spent years in Afghanistan supporting the fight against terror, until leaving his post of UK ambassador in 2017. "Coming to ZSL, I have a front-row seat on a different kind of war: the war on wildlife," he said in an article for the Guardian. "[It is] a war with catastrophic impacts on people and animals."