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Study casts doubt on sustainability of regulated blood python snakeskin trade

Basten Gokkon 2 Jun 2022
Tourists petting a tiger cub at Doc Antle's Myrtle Beach Tiger Safari in South Carolina, U.S. Antle faces federal charges for wildlife trafficking.

Year of the Tiger: Illegal trade thrives amid efforts to save wild tigers

Sharon Guynup 31 May 2022

She’s here! Rare Sumatran rhino calf born at rhino sanctuary

Mike DiGirolamo 11 May 2022

It’s a girl: Super rare Sumatran rhino born in captive-breeding center

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2022

New study highlights hidden scale of U.S. illegal tiger trade

Carolyn Cowan 2 Feb 2022
Gibbon

Greater Mekong primates struggle to cling on amid persistent threats: Report

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jan 2022
Asian giant tortoises

Wild release marks return of giant forest tortoises to Bangladesh hills

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2022
Captive tiger

Tiger farms doing little to end wild poaching, Vietnam consumer study shows

Carolyn Cowan 29 Dec 2021
Seized sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleonora) in East Java, Indonesia.

Indonesia ranks high on legal wildlife trade, but experts warn it masks illegal trade

Basten Gokkon 3 Dec 2021
Crocodile-WWF

Snapshot of hatchlings raises hopes for Siamese crocs in northeast Cambodia

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2021
Paleoart

Low genetic diversity is part of rhinos’ long-term history, study says

Carolyn Cowan 31 Aug 2021

Captive breeding of Sumatran rhinos: Where the program stands today

Mongabay 31 Aug 2021

‘What’s your real footprint on the animal world?’: Q&A with author Henry Mance

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Jul 2021

Philippine forest turtles stand a ‘good chance’ after first wild release

Leilani Chavez 28 Jun 2021

Do we love elephants enough to let them live free? (commentary)

Merrill Sapp 22 Jun 2021

From common to captive, Javan pied starlings succumb to songbird trade

Anna Nordseth 18 Jun 2021

CSI, but for parrots: Study applies criminological tool CRAAVED to wildlife trade

Grace Dungey, Nick Rodway 7 Jun 2021

South Africa pulls the plug on controversial captive lion industry

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 May 2021

Sumatran rhinos show low inbreeding — but when it happens, collapse is quick

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2021

Skin in the game? Reptile leather trade embroils conservation authority

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Apr 2021

Captive lions kept in ‘stressful conditions’ create perfect recipe for disease, experts say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Apr 2021

Conservation actions see Iberian lynx claw back from brink of extinction

Johan Augustin 12 Mar 2021

Video: Doomed or viable? Sumatran rhino captive breeding faces a dilemma

Isabel Esterman 3 Mar 2021

Rarely seen Sumatran rhinos are now even more elusive as threats close in

Tri Purna Jaya 28 Jan 2021

Widodo Ramono, the man on a mission to save Sumatran rhinos

Rahmadi Rahmad 17 Dec 2020

The rhino in the room: 3D scan brings near-extinct Sumatran species to virtual life

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Oct 2020
Burmese roofed turtle moments after emerging from an egg collected from a sandbank along the Chindwin River and incubated at a head-starting facility in Limpha village, Sagaing region, Myanmar. Photo by Myo Min Win/WCS Myanmar (Platt et al 2020).

Back from the brink, baby Burmese roofed turtles make their debut

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2020

Captive breeding helps New Zealand’s threatened black stilts take flight

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Aug 2020

Forest fires set by poachers threaten a refuge of the Sumatran rhino

Tri Purna Jaya 21 Aug 2020

Brazilian Amazon drained of millions of wild animals by criminal networks: Report

Sharon Guynup 28 Jul 2020

Sumatran rhino planned for capture is another female, Indonesian officials say

Yovanda 22 Jul 2020

‘Every tool in the box’ to save Sumatran rhinos: Q&A with Nina Fascione of IRF

Jeremy Hance 20 Jul 2020

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