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New research provides baseline for evaluating effectiveness of US ban on ivory trade

Mike Gaworecki 8 Aug 2017

Watch: $8 million worth elephant ivory crushed in New York City

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Aug 2017

New genetic analyses help scientists rethink the elephant family tree

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Aug 2017

Five promising stories for Global Tiger Day

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2017

Big forests, big ag: Are rainforests the right place for industrial agriculture? (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 20 Jul 2017

Investigation finds ‘thriving’ rhino horn trade in Asia

John Cannon 18 Jul 2017

On poaching in South Africa, education “has saved more wildlife than any guard with a gun”

Justin Catanoso 13 Jul 2017

Ongoing mass extinction causing ‘biological annihilation,’ new study says

John Cannon 11 Jul 2017

Hong Kong officials seize ‘largest ever’ ivory shipment worth $9 million

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Jul 2017

The Chinese town at the epicenter of the global illegal ivory trade

Mike Gaworecki 5 Jul 2017

Creating corridors: researchers use GPS telemetry data to map elephants’ movements

Danielle Bettermann 21 Jun 2017

‘Crunch time for biodiversity’: Farming, hunting push thousands of species toward extinction

John Cannon 7 Jun 2017

Gabon pledges ‘massive’ protected network for oceans

Mongabay.com 6 Jun 2017

Demand for elephant skin driving up poaching in Myanmar (warning: graphic images)

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jun 2017
An elephant in Botswana far from people and unlikely to encounter and break fences.

Breaking a fence-breaking habit: maintaining the fences that reduce human-elephant conflict

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Jun 2017

Not out of the woods: Concerns remain with Nigerian superhighway

John Cannon 26 May 2017

Slight bumps in protected areas could be a boon for biodiversity

John Cannon 26 May 2017

On the road to ‘smart development’

John Cannon 25 May 2017

Nepal burns more than 4,000 confiscated wildlife parts

Shreya Dasgupta 24 May 2017

Hong Kong Ivory traders encouraging buyers to smuggle ivory: TRAFFIC

Shreya Dasgupta 11 May 2017

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 May 2017

Rwanda welcomes 20 black rhinos to Akagera National Park

Mongabay.com 3 May 2017

Cross River superhighway changes course in Nigeria

John Cannon 28 Apr 2017

As forests disappear, human-elephant conflict escalates in Nepal

Lillie Howell 28 Apr 2017

Illegal trade threatens nearly half the world’s natural heritage sites: WWF

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Apr 2017
Park rangers on patrol in Garamba National Park in DRC earlier this month. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

2 wildlife rangers shot and killed by poachers in Congo park

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2017

Nepal tests fencing approach to protect farms and elephants

Erik Meijaard 17 Apr 2017

Survey of previously inaccessible region of Myanmar reveals many endangered species

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Mar 2017

Probing rural poachers in Africa: Why do they poach?

Neha Jain 22 Mar 2017

Notorious elephant poacher, ‘The Devil’, sentenced to 12 years in jail

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Mar 2017

The last elephants of Cambodia’s Virachey National Park

Gregory McCann 7 Mar 2017

African Parks gets $65M for conservation in Rwanda and Malawi

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2017

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