Articles by Jeremy Hance

Lions in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Nine months after Zambia lifted its general trophy hunting ban—including on elephants—the country has now lifted its ban…

A male saiga. Photo by: Seilov/Creative Commons 3.0. No one knows what's killing them, but scientists estimate that almost half of the world's saiga (Saiga tatarica) have perished since May…

Savanna elephant in Uganda. Photo by: Andrew Plumptre/WCS. In the 1980s, Uganda's elephants looked like they were on their way to extinction. The country had only about 700-800 elephants left,…

Poached elephant in Niassa National Reserve. Photo by: Alastair Nelson/ WCS. Mozambique has lost nearly half of its elephants to relentless, brutal, and highly-organized poaching in just five years, according…

Indian rhino with horn removed to prevent poaching. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. A new survey in Nepal counted 645 one-horned rhinos (Rhinoceros unicornis), up from 375 animals ten years…

Wildlife trophy room. Photo by: Fabio Venni/Creative Commons 2.0. Trophy hunters may need to find another flight home, as South African Airlines (SAA) has announced a new ban on any…

White rhino in Kruger National Park. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. In the first four months of 2015, poachers killed 393 rhinos in South Africa, the epicenter of the rhino…

We'd been hiking through deep snow all day with the mercury well below zero, not an uncommon occurrence during winter in eastern Poland. Still I was sweating, covered in several…

Sloth on all fours seeking salt. Photo courtesy of camera trap video compilation from Tiputini Biodiversity Station. A compilation of new camera trap videos from Yasuni National Park shows off…

Installing solar panels in the U.S. Photo by: Oregon Department of Transportation/Creative Commons 2.0 For the first time in human history, carbon dioxide concentrations averaged out at 400 parts per…

Elephant ivory seized from poachers in Garamba. Photo by: Jonathan Hutson for the Enough Project and Satellite Sentinel Project. On April 25th, poachers shot and killed wildlife ranger, Agoyo Mbikoyo,…

Scientists conduct first ever in-field DNA test...and potentially discover new species Ana Rodriguez Prieto conducting a test run of the new technology in Italy. Photo courtesy of MUSE. Yesterday, a…

The new Annam leaf turtle exhibit at the London Zoo. Photo by: Ben Tapley/ZSL. Usually animal pens in zoos are designed to resemble a species' native habitat: lions in sprawling…

Megaherbivore collapse particularly acute in Asia and Africa. Hunting may be the single greatest threat to the world's endangered megaherbivores. Skinned antelope for sale in Guinea, Africa. Photo by: Terry…

Silky anteater. Photo by: Tristan Thompson. The up-coming documentary, Uncharted Amazon, promises to highlight both the little-seen wildlife and the people of the Las Piedras River region in the Peruvian…

Rainforest cleared for oil palm plantations. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly today on a new cap on biofuels derived from edible crops, which critics say…

Frozen, dead Sunda pangolins confiscated by the Indonesian National Police's Criminal Investigation Division in Medan, Sumatra. Photo by: Paul Hilton for WCS. Five tons of frozen pangolin, 77 kilograms (169…

Seized ivory that was crushed. Photo by: IFAW. As it has become more difficult to buy illegal ivory from slaughtered elephants on places like eBay, Etsy, and Amazon.com, traders and…

Malaysian officials admit the Bornean rhino may only be represented by three surviving captive animals Tam, here at Borneo Rhino Sanctuary in Sabah, may be the world's last male Bornean…

Sunda flying fox silhouettes against the sunset. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs. Rain or clear, wind or still, full moon or no. Every night thousands of flying foxes rise from a…

Hoffman's two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) at La Selva Biological Station, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica. Photo by: Geoff Gallice/Creative Commons 2.0. Tropical forests support the greatest diversity of species in the world,…

Camera trap photo of rufous-vented ground cuckoo (circled) and a collared peccary. Photo courtesy of Renzo Piana. Although a large, attractive bird found across Latin America, scientists know almost nothing…

Soy field in the Brazilian Amazon. Again this year, Brazil has the highest number of murders of environmental and land defenders. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. The assassination, murder, and…

Antarctic minke whale caught be Japanese vessel, the Yushin Maru, in 2008. Photo by: Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. Last year, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that…

Young primatologist takes first photo ever of Bouvier's red colobus Detail from the world's first photo of Bouvier’s red colobus (Piliocolobus bouvieri) taken early March 2015 in the Ntokou-Pikounda National…

Silver bar. Photo by: Unit 5/Creative Commons 3.0. Earlier this month, environmental activist, Telésforo Odilo Pivaral Gonzalez, was killed by unknown assailants who shot him five times. The father of…

Young lion in Kruger National Park in South Africa. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Last month, Australia became the world's first country to ban the import or export of lion…

Bonobo at Lola Ya Bonobo sanctuary. Photo courtesy of Lola Ya Bonobo. Of the world's six species of great ape (not including us), it's safe to say that bonobos (Pan…

Savannah elephant in Kruger National Park in South Africa. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. New figures show essentially no change in the number of elephants killed in Africa by poachers…

The white sands of the Tapiche-Blanco region in Peru. Photo by: Nigel Pitman. Most people think of the Amazon rainforest as one massive, homogenous ecosystem—a giant castle of green. However,…