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Diademed Sifaka (Propithecus diadema), a species threatened by the Madagascar rosewood trade. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Singapore convicts rosewood trader in historic CITES seizure

Edward Carver 26 Apr 2017

Missing data puts thousands of illegally traded wild animals at risk

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Sep 2016

Amid rhinoceros poaching frenzy, dark days for South African society

Mic Smith 5 Jun 2015

Fracas over Costa Rican shark-fin exports leads American Airlines to stop shipping fins

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 24 Apr 2015

Why are great apes treated like second-class species by CITES?

Daniel Stiles Of Pegas (project To End Great Ape Slavery) 11 Sep 2014

Sold into extinction: great apes betrayed by protectors

Daniel Stiles 9 Jul 2014

Hong Kong begins destroying 131,000 pounds of elephant ivory

Mongabay.com 17 May 2014

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2013

Manta ray tourism worth 28 times more than killing them for Traditional Chinese Medicine

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2013

Infamous elephant poacher turns cannibal in the Congo

Pete Jones 3 Apr 2013

Elephant woes: conservationists mixed on elephant actions at CITES

Jeremy Hance 14 Mar 2013

Dozens of tropical trees awarded new protections at CITES

Jeremy Hance 12 Mar 2013

Prayers for dying elephants: Buddhists hold prayer ceremony for elephants decimated by poachers

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2013

Sharks and rays win protections at CITES

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2013

Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaughtered elephants taking rainforest trees with them

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2013

Turtles win greater protection at CITES meeting

Mongabay.com 8 Mar 2013

Conservationists: ban the wild cheetah pet trade

Mongabay.com 8 Mar 2013

What happened to the elephants of Bouba Ndjida? [warning: graphic photos]

Christina M. Russo 7 Mar 2013

Has shark fin consumption peaked at 100M dead sharks per year?

Jeremy Hance 5 Mar 2013

62% of all Africa’s forest elephants killed in 10 years (warning: graphic images)

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Mar 2013

CITES 40th Anniversary: Reflections of CITES Secretary-General John Scanlon

Laurel Neme 4 Mar 2013

Thailand’s Prime Minister commits to ending ivory trade

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2013

Elephant and Rhino issues to be debated at CITES 16th Conference of Parties

Laurel Neme 4 Mar 2013

Overview of the CITES 16th Conference of Parties in Bangkok

Laurel Neme 1 Mar 2013

Sri Lanka to give poached ivory to Buddhist temple, flouting international agreements

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2013

Indonesia remains epicenter for illegal wildlife trade in reptiles and amphibians

Dr Liz Kimbrough 24 Oct 2012

Wildlife trade bans may be worsening trafficking of some species, argues paper

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2012

Solomon Islands’ export of ‘captive-bred’ birds deemed to be a farce

Darren Lloyd 14 Aug 2012

Blood rosewood: Thailand and Cambodia team up to tackle illegal logging crisis and save lives

Jeremy Hance 11 Apr 2012

U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru’s Amazon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2012

Banning ivory sales to China could save elephants

Jeremy Hance 24 Mar 2012

After illegal logging allegations, certifier lodges complaint against paper giant APP

Jeremy Hance 7 Mar 2012

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