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Stricter rules adopted to protect sloths from pet trade and selfie tourism

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2025

45 more shark species up for CITES protections; tight vote expected

Philip Jacobson 26 Nov 2025
An Annamite striped rabbit in a breeding facility in Thailand.

Already disappearing, Southeast Asia’s striped rabbits now caught in global pet trade

Spoorthy Raman 25 Nov 2025
Oceanic white tip shark. Image courtesy of Mark Royer, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.

For sharks on the brink of extinction, CITES Appendix II isn’t protective enough (commentary)

David Shiffman 20 Nov 2025

Rescued African gray parrots return to DRC forests

Didier Makal 21 Oct 2025
African gray parrot. Image by Robert01 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

DRC finally moves to protect African gray parrots from unsustainable trade

Dider Makal 23 Sep 2025
Banner image: A lion guarding its territory in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Image by Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

World lion day: Why is the king of the savanna declining?

Kristine Sabillo 8 Aug 2025

Suspicions surround international legal trade in Galápagos iguanas

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jul 2025
Banner image of a whale shark in Tubbataha Reefs by © Steve De Neef.

Countries seek urgent CITES protection of more than 70 sharks and rays

Kristine Sabillo 1 Jul 2025
A leopard in Panna National Park, India.

‘Forgotten’ leopards being driven to silent extinction by poaching and trade

Spoorthy Raman 26 Jun 2025
A mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator).

EU remains major wildlife trafficking hub, report finds

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Jun 2025
A shortfin mako

Endangered shark trophies dominate the online wildlife trade, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 11 Jun 2025

A street-smart hawk uses a pedestrian signal to hunt in the city

Bobby Bascomb 23 May 2025
A male African lion in Serengeti National Park.

Trophies, body parts & live animals dominate global lion trade, data show

Alex Shaw, Spoorthy Raman 8 May 2025

Illegal wood from Colombia’s rainforests enters US and EU supply chains

Mie Hoejris Dahl 6 May 2025
Agarwood is a prized constituent in incense, perfumes, medicines and ornaments and remains in high demand across East Asia and the Middle East–North Africa region.

Global agarwood trade heavily dependent on wild, threatened trees: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Apr 2025
Long-tailed macaques being held at Sookvannaseng Integrated's breeding farm in Bolikhamsai province, Laos. Image supplied by source.

Data discrepancies suggest Laos monkey smuggling persists, despite trade ban

Gerald Flynn 23 Apr 2025
An endangered long-tailed macaque peeks out from a cage having been exported from Vietnam to Europe. Image supplied by Animal Rights BE.

Report alleges criminality in Cambodian, Vietnamese monkey trade

Gerald Flynn 21 Apr 2025
spiny lizard green

Regulation loopholes fuel illegal wildlife trade from Latin America to Europe

Spoorthy Raman 24 Mar 2025

Wave of arrests as Madagascar shuts down tortoise trafficking network

Rivonala Razafison 17 Feb 2025
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

CITES rejects proposed suspension of Cambodian monkey exports

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2025
An agile gibbon in Berlin Zoo.

Increase in gibbon trafficking into India has conservationists worried

Spoorthy Raman 29 Jan 2025

China’s plans to trace wildlife trade risks inflaming trafficking, critics warn

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2024
Painted woolly bat

‘Senseless’ U.S. trinket trade threatens distinctive Asian bat, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 30 Aug 2024
A blue-throated macaw (Ara glaucogularis) in a cage.

CITES suspends Bangladesh as illegal wild bird trade continues

Abu Siddique 27 Aug 2024
Common brown lemur

Madagascar lemurs, tortoises seized in Thai bust reveal reach of wildlife trafficking

Carolyn Cowan 28 Jun 2024
A juvenile northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) held in a cage outside a gas station in Cambodia. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 7 Mar 2024
Spix’s macaw

EU’s legal loophole feeds gray market for world’s rarest parrot

Brendan Borrell 17 Jan 2024
The endangered greater green leafbird

Study: More than 900 at-risk species lack international trade protections

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2023

New protections for sharks, songbirds, frogs and more at CITES trade summit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Nov 2022
Rosewood logs. Image courtesy of Environmental Investigation Agency.

Will CITES finally act to protect rosewood this month? (commentary)

Mark Roberts 4 Nov 2022
A dead vaquita floats in the ocean. Image by Robbie Newby for Sea Shepherd.

Experts fear end of vaquitas after green light for export of captive-bred totoaba fish

Michelle Carrere 28 Jun 2022

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