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An adult male Loris showing its teeth. Photo by by Andrew Walmsley courtesy of the Little Fireface Project.

Armed and dangerous, ‘murder lorises’ use their venom against each other

Liz Kimbrough 19 Oct 2020
Tapir at the Ambue Ari Sanctuary of Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi. Courtesy of CIWY

Wildlife emergency in Bolivia as fires threaten animal sanctuaries

Milan Sime Martinic 16 Oct 2020

In the Horn of Africa, conflict and illegal trade create a ‘cheetah hell’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Oct 2020

For the Pantanal’s jaguars, fires bring ‘death by a thousand needle wounds’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Sep 2020

The other Corona: Rescued pangolin is a rehabilitation success story

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2020

481 and counting: Norway’s whaling catch hits four-year high

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Aug 2020

World Bank-funded factory farms dogged by alleged environmental abuses

John Cannon 16 Jul 2020

Five years after the death of Cecil the Lion, trophy hunting debate rages on

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jul 2020

Myanmar ponders what to do with its out-of-work elephants

Curtis Segarra 5 Jul 2020

Prized as pets, are ball pythons being traded out of wild existence?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 May 2020

China offers buyouts to wildlife farmers in response to pandemic

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 May 2020

Thailand’s captive elephants face starvation amid COVID-19 tourism freeze

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Apr 2020

‘Titanic challenge’ for an Italian hospital rescuing sea turtles from plastic

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2020

China’s wénwan drives a deadly mix-and-match of endangered wildlife

Megan Stannard 20 Nov 2019

Damian Aspinall on why he’s calling for zoos to be phased out within the next three decades

Mike Gaworecki 13 Nov 2019

Big cat trade driven by demand for traditional Asian medicine, according to report

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2019

Thousands of sharks and rays are likely entangled in plastic polluting Earth’s oceans

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2019

Asiatic black bear cubs rescued from illegal wildlife trade in Vietnam

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2019

Graphic video reveals brutality of pangolin poaching in northeast India

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2018

How a better understanding of psychopathology in captive primates can aid in conservation efforts

Mike Gaworecki 18 Jul 2018

Facebook video shows orangutan defending forest against bulldozer

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jun 2018

Activists eye bigger roles for local officials, businesses in Indonesia’s orangutan protection plan

Basten Gokkon 15 Mar 2018

Sudden death of juvenile zoo elephant raises anew issues of life in captivity

Laurel Neme 4 Oct 2017

China sends first pandas to Indonesia under captive-breeding agreement

Basten Gokkon 29 Sep 2017
Red lechwe. Photo by Ian Restall/Wikipedia

Apply Animal Welfare Act rules to recreational hunting, says advocacy group

Genevieve Belmaker 6 Sep 2017

TripAdvisor bans ticket sales to wild animal attractions

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Oct 2016

World’s most expensive coffee often produced from caged, abused civets, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 24 May 2016

‘Status symbols’: Japan emerging as major hub for illegal trade in slow lorises due to their popularity as pets

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Feb 2016

The week in environmental news – Feb 26, 2016

Brittany Stewart 26 Feb 2016

Click to like this: Is Instagram a hub for illegal ape deals?

Christopher Haslett 10 Dec 2015

Crab fishermen train as first responders for entangled whales

Kim Smuga-Otto 24 Nov 2015

South African ranchers propose controversial plan to save our rhinos

Brittany Stewart 20 Nov 2015

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