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Hong Kong to ban ivory trade by 2021

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Dec 2016

Signatories to Hanoi Statement urged to do more to combat illegal wildlife trade

Mike Gaworecki 15 Dec 2016

Watch video of baby slow loris born to mother rescued from wildlife traffickers

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Dec 2016

Palm oil culprits apprehended in the Leuser Ecosystem. Who sent them?

Junaidi Hanafiah 23 Nov 2016

Most illegal ivory comes from recently killed elephants: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Nov 2016

Elephant poaching costs African nations $25 million a year in lost tourism revenue

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Nov 2016

One-Year Anniversary of Brazil dam disaster brings prosecutions

Jenny Gonzales 2 Nov 2016

Over 200 snow leopards killed every year: new report

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Oct 2016

Park ranger murdered while trying to protect rare gorillas

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Oct 2016

Violence against indigenous people high, as land conflicts heat up

Carolina Torres 18 Oct 2016

Environmental official murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford 17 Oct 2016

More than 20 labor law violations by Indofood alleged in Indonesia

Alice Cuddy 14 Oct 2016

International trade in African grey parrots banned

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Oct 2016

No decline in tiger trafficking: new report

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Sep 2016

Fires driving deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mongabay.com 29 Sep 2016

International trade in Barbary macaques banned

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Sep 2016

Slave-linked fishing firm thought to have resumed operations in Indonesia

M Ambari 29 Sep 2016

Missing data puts thousands of illegally traded wild animals at risk

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Sep 2016

Madagascar’s largest tortoise could become extinct in 2 years

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Sep 2016

Lao PDR commits to shut its commercial tiger farms

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Sep 2016

Lao PDR failing to curb pangolin and hornbill trafficking: new reports

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Sep 2016

Land grabbing and environmental destruction could now be prosecuted under international law

Mike Gaworecki 22 Sep 2016

Indian rhino horns being smuggled to China via Myanmar

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Sep 2016
Young boys labor outside a saw mill in the town of Njoro in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Photo by David Njagi

Youth, women, indigenous group pay the price of logging in Kenya

David Njagi 16 Sep 2016

Pulp and paper supplier denies draining peat on island near Singapore

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Sep 2016
Rangers at Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. Photo by Ninara via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Poaching in Africa becomes increasingly militarized

William H. Funk 12 Sep 2016

Countries at IUCN Congress vote to ban domestic ivory markets

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Sep 2016

Malaysia is a major transit point for ivory smugglers

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Sep 2016

IUCN motions to ban the pangolin trade

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 6 Sep 2016

Guest Commentary: Are grassroots organizations our best hope for combating the illegal wildlife trade?

Natalie Kyriacou 6 Sep 2016

No fire, no food: tribe clings to slash-and-burn amid haze crackdown

Cory Rogers 1 Sep 2016

657 pangolins found wrapped in plastic, hidden in freezers

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Sep 2016

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