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Latam Eco Review: Five newly described snakes named by auction in Ecuador

Mongabay.com 6 Jul 2018

Online pet trade in Southeast Asia poses a major new threat to otters

Mongabay.com 8 Jun 2018

Owner of South African hunting company indicted by US prosecutors over illegal elephant hunt

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2018
African elephants in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Will China’s new ban on the ivory trade help or hurt? (Commentary)

Karl Ammann 16 May 2018

Wildlife trade detective Samuel Wasser receives prestigious Albert Schweitzer Medal

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Apr 2018

Indonesian conservation bill is weak on wildlife crime, critics say

Basten Gokkon 6 Apr 2018

New sloth book features amazing photographs and busts myths [PHOTOS]

Erik Hoffner 5 Apr 2018

U.K. ban relegates legal ivory trade to ‘a thing of the past’

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2018

In Jakarta, wildlife monitors find a hotspot for the illegal tortoise trade

Basten Gokkon 26 Mar 2018

Illegal cattle ranching deforests Mexico’s massive Lacandon Jungle

Rodrigo Soberanes 14 Mar 2018
Bison in Chihuahua, Mexico, where protected grasslands in the U.S. and Mexico create a bi-national wildlife corridor. President Trump’s border hardening plans threaten the continuity of this habitat, and existing fencing has already curtailed the bison's movements. Photo by Rurik List.

Judge OKs waiving environmental laws to build U.S.-Mexico border wall

Mongabay 1 Mar 2018
Bison in the Janos Valley of Chihuahua, Mexico. A population of about 100 bison lives in Mexico, where they are listed as a species in danger of extinction. The herd’s trips from the U.S. to Mexico have been curtailed by a hardening of the border in the Janos Valley. Photo by Rurik List courtesy of CONABIO.

Rewriting biological history: Trump border wall puts wildlife at risk

Rebecca Kessler 12 Feb 2018

Trumping Colombia’s peace: U.S. drug war threatens fragile accord, forests

Sean Mowbray 5 Feb 2018

Hong Kong votes to ban ivory trade by 2021

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2018

Fang trafficking to China is putting Bolivia’s jaguars in jeopardy

Roberto Navia 26 Jan 2018

Rhino poaching in South Africa dipped slightly last year, but ‘crisis continues unabated,’ conservationists say

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2018

Thai police bust leading wildlife trafficker

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2018
Charcoal bags on a boat near Katha, Myanmar. The boat is bound for Bhamo, where the charcoal will be taken by trucks over the order to China. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Myanmar to target illegal charcoal trade with China

Mongabay.com 18 Jan 2018

Indonesian ex-soldier among three jailed for illegal trade in Sumatran rhino, tiger parts

Ayat S. Karokaro 10 Jan 2018

Indonesia to kick off 10-year plan to save critically endangered helmeted hornbill

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Nov 2017

eBay is outselling the darknet in the illegal wildlife trade, fret researchers

Jack Elliot Marley 22 Nov 2017

VaquitaCPR ends capture program in Gulf of California after vaquita dies in captivity

Mike Gaworecki 13 Nov 2017

Breeding-age female vaquita dies after being taken into captivity

Mike Gaworecki 6 Nov 2017
A forestry department ground inspection team checks the timber to be exported and monitors con-tainer loading at the site before sealing the container. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Myanmar struggles to fight the crimes of illegal logging

Ann Wang 1 Nov 2017
A car of seized rosewood close to Yu Pu check point. The driver have heard rumors have an active check point so left the car at a nearby restaurant and disappeared before the officers arrived. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Checkpoint China: The shadowy world of timber smuggling

Ann Wang 31 Oct 2017
A​ ​temple​ ​at​ ​night​ ​in​ ​the​ ​town​ ​of​ ​Bhamo,​ ​a​n area​ ​greatly​ ​influenced​ ​by​ ​its​ ​proximity​ ​to​ ​the Chinese​ ​border. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

The wily ways of a Myanmar-China border town

Emmanuel Freudenthal 30 Oct 2017
A boat travels in a tributary to the Irrawaddy River near Katha, northern Myanmar. Along this tributary, charcoal is produced by villages and sold to traders that eventually bring it to China, where it is used in factories that make silicon metal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

The charcoal hunters

Emmanuel Freudenthal, Nathan Siegel 27 Oct 2017

Two Indonesian soldiers found to be smuggling dozens of porcupines

Vinolia 25 Sep 2017

First orangutan birth in Aceh reserve ‘gives hope’ for survival of species

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Sep 2017

Jackie Chan joins the fight for endangered pangolins

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Sep 2017

Rhino horn on the auction block in South Africa

John Cannon 22 Aug 2017

Leading ivory trade investigator slain in Tanzania

Dan Ashby, Lucy Taylor 18 Aug 2017

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