“Just past the very inquisitive meerkats, up the hill beyond the café and around the corner from the snuffling warty pigs, is a wall and a door.
It’s at the very edge of Edinburgh Zoo – walk any further and you’ll be strolling up Kaimes Road – and the door’s bland, tattered appearance suggests what lies beyond isn’t likely to trouble the pandas’ reign as stars of the show.

Through, and up a short path, is a plain whitewashed bungalow. On the surface, at least, it seems a very long way from the bloody horrors of the illicit poaching trade, the vile business in which elephants’ tusks are ripped from their skulls to create ivory trinkets or rhinos are callously slaughtered for their horns.

And yet it’s here, in a fairly quiet office thousands of miles from the mutilated carcases of animals, that the war against global wildlife crime is being fought.”

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source: Edinburgh Evening News