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‘Saving sun bears’: Q&A with book author Sarah Pye

John Cannon 29 Jun 2020

Did China really ban the pangolin trade? Not quite, investigators say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Jun 2020

‘It’s a success’: Pangolins return to a region where they were once extinct

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Jun 2020

Banned: No more pangolin scales in traditional medicine, China declares

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2020

Vietnam wildlife trade ban appears to flounder amid coronavirus success

Michael Tatarski 25 May 2020

China offers buyouts to wildlife farmers in response to pandemic

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 May 2020
Pangolin rescued from the wildlife trade in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Jane Goodall: COVID-19 is a product of our unhealthy relationship with animals and the environment (commentary)

Jane Goodall 4 May 2020

As calls to shutter wildlife markets grow, China struggles with an industry worth billions

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Apr 2020

What’s in a name? ‘Wet markets’ may hide true culprits for COVID-19

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Apr 2020

China releases list of animals to be farmed after COVID-19

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Apr 2020

Chinese ban on eating wild animals likely to become law: Q&A with WCS’s Aili Kang

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Apr 2020

Chinese government reportedly recommending bear bile injections to treat coronavirus

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2020
Part of anti-trafficking campaign in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Vietnam considers wildlife trade ban in response to coronavirus pandemic

Michael Tatarski 18 Mar 2020

Conservationists set the record straight on COVID-19’s wildlife links

Liz Kimbrough 13 Mar 2020

Coronavirus outbreak may spur Southeast Asian action on wildlife trafficking

Imelda Abano 4 Mar 2020

China beefs up wildlife trade ban as COVID-19 outbreak intensifies

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Feb 2020

Illegal pangolin trade may have played a part in coronavirus outbreak

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Feb 2020
Wildlife in a market in Laos. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

The wildlife trade threatens people and animals alike (commentary)

David S. Wilcove 5 Feb 2020
Pangolins rescued from wildlife traffickers. These individuals are at a rehabilitation center in Cambodia. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Conservationists welcome China’s wildlife trade ban

Rhett A. Butler 26 Jan 2020

Time is running out for Southeast Asia

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2019

Nearly extinct vaquita mothers with calves spotted in recent expeditions

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2019
Camera trap image of a pangolin foraging at night in South Sudan. Credit: Bucknell University/Fauna and Flora International

Pangolins are a victim of political instability in South Sudan

Ashleigh Papp 21 Nov 2019

Ayahuasca tourism an overlooked driver of trade in jaguar body parts, researchers say

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2019

’Rampant’ fishing continues as vaquita numbers dwindle

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2019

How Laos lost its tigers

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2019

International wildlife trade sweeps across ‘tree of life,’ study finds

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2019

New film details wrenching impact of illegal rhino horn trade on families

John Cannon 27 Jun 2019

Conservation groups concerned as WHO recognizes traditional Chinese medicine

Mongabay.com 28 May 2019

Kenya on the brink of acquitting ivory trafficker number four (commentary)

Chris Morris 10 Apr 2019

In the belly of the beast: journalist delves into wildlife trafficking

Gloria Dickie 4 Dec 2018
Pair of jaguar in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Progress on jaguar conservation in Suriname

Mark J. Plotkin 20 Nov 2018

Thousands of radiated tortoises seized from traffickers in Madagascar

John Cannon 31 Oct 2018

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