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On World Elephant Day, troubling times for African elephants

Monagbay.com 11 Aug 2017

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

Mike Gaworecki 8 Aug 2017

US retailers halt sales of hardwood flooring linked to illegal logging in PNG

Mike Gaworecki 1 Aug 2017

Pangolin hunting skyrockets in Central Africa, driven by international trade

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2017

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

Mike Gaworecki 5 Jul 2017

Harry Potter may have sparked illegal owl trade in Indonesia

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jul 2017

International illegal logging conference touches on myriad issues

Genevieve Belmaker 29 Jun 2017
Ring-tailed lemur. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Ring-tailed lemurs down by 95 percent? Maybe not.

Matthew P. Reed 19 Jun 2017

More than 300 smuggled tortoises seized in Malaysia

Shreya Dasgupta 17 May 2017
Arevs in O'Tabok, Virachey National Park, Cambodia Feb 2017. Photo courtesy of EIA.

New report details enormous corruption, illegal logging along Vietnamese border with Cambodia

Michael Tatarski 8 May 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

Great apes in Asian circus-style shows on rise — so is trafficking

Millie Kerr 12 Apr 2017

Reptiles being sold openly and illegally in Moroccan markets

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Apr 2017

Will Madagascar lose its most iconic primate?

Matthew P. Reed 24 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

More than 25,000 elephants were killed in a Gabon national park in one decade

Mike Gaworecki 24 Feb 2017

Study finds more than 350k trees illegally felled in Madagascar’s protected areas in five-year span

Mike Gaworecki 23 Feb 2017

How acoustic monitoring gave us a last chance to save the vaquita

Rachel Fritts 22 Feb 2017

Seven ‘most wanted’ elephant poachers arrested in Malaysia

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Feb 2017

27 critically endangered Javan slow lorises rescued from online traders in Indonesia

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jan 2017

China seizes over 3,000 kg of pangolin scales in biggest-ever smuggling case

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2016

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2016

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Dec 2016

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

Interpol says corruption in global forestry sector worth $29 billion every year

Mike Gaworecki 9 Dec 2016

Sweden sets legal precedent with prosecution of Myanmar teak trader

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2016
A cook fries potato chips using charcoal at the Salama Guest House on the Kenyan side of Namanga. Photo by Nathan Siegel

In a border town, a favorite African fuel has an uncertain future

Nathan Siegel 3 Nov 2016

Quantifying the ecological impacts of the 20th century trade in Amazonian furs

Mike Gaworecki 25 Oct 2016

Over 200 snow leopards killed every year: new report

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Oct 2016

Papua New Guinea activist receives prestigious award for protecting forests

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2016

CITES CoP17 closes after key votes on elephants, lions, pangolins, rosewood, and more

Mike Gaworecki 5 Oct 2016

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