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A southern white rhino explores its surrounding after translocation from South Africa to Rwanda's Akagera National Park. Image © Gael Vande Weghe.

Seventy southern white rhinos arrive at their new home in Rwanda from South Africa

Graeme Green 10 Jun 2025
Pangolin at the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre in 2022

High-profile wildlife trafficking case tests Malawi’s conservation commitment

Madalitso Wills Kateta 10 Jun 2025
Jandhen Gurung, 82, with her juniper leaf collection. Image by Durga Rana Magar.

In Nepal, centuries-old Buddhist incense tradition faces overharvesting, climate threats

Durga Rana Magar 16 May 2025
Banner image: A truck carries logs cut from the Amazon Rainforest in the state of Rondônia. Image courtesy of Vicente Sampaio/Imaflora.

The world needs a new UN protocol to fight environmental crime (commentary)

Robert Muggah 15 May 2025
Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica

Indonesian pangolin trafficking prosecution reveals police involvement — and impunity

Ayat S. Karokaro 14 May 2025
A giant girdled lizard, also known as a sungazer (Smaug giganteus). Image by Cloudtail the Snow Leopard via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Traffickers slither through loopholes with wild-caught African snakes and lizards

Ryan Truscott 13 May 2025
Brazilian Indigenous lawyer Kari Guajajara. Image by USAID via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

‘We can’t talk solutions without understanding complexities: Kari Guajajara on Brazil’s Amazon

Latoya Abulu 12 May 2025
A male African lion in Serengeti National Park.

Trophies, body parts & live animals dominate global lion trade, data show

Alex Shaw, Spoorthy Raman 8 May 2025
The rescue team carries a deer rescued from an artificial amusement park.

Bangladesh cracks down on illegal wildlife captivity — but what happens after?

Abu Siddique, Sadiqur Rahman 6 May 2025
A chimpanzee of Mikeno Lodge in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image by Joseph King via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Poaching intensifies in M23-occupied areas of Virunga National Park

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2025
Agarwood is a prized constituent in incense, perfumes, medicines and ornaments and remains in high demand across East Asia and the Middle East–North Africa region.

Global agarwood trade heavily dependent on wild, threatened trees: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Apr 2025
Long-tailed macaques being held at Sookvannaseng Integrated's breeding farm in Bolikhamsai province, Laos. Image supplied by source.

Data discrepancies suggest Laos monkey smuggling persists, despite trade ban

Gerald Flynn 23 Apr 2025
Illegal logging observed in Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesian Borneo

Indonesia strengthens forest monitoring with new tool to meet EU deforestation law

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Apr 2025
An endangered long-tailed macaque peeks out from a cage having been exported from Vietnam to Europe. Image supplied by Animal Rights BE.

Report alleges criminality in Cambodian, Vietnamese monkey trade

Gerald Flynn 21 Apr 2025
A siamang gibbon seized in Chennai, India in August 2024, along with turtles and pythons. It was being carried in the baggage of a passenger travelling from Bangkok.

Illegal trafficking of siamang gibbons is a concerning and underreported crisis (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 18 Apr 2025
A common kestrel, one of the raptors frequently hunted down by poachers in Lebanon.

‘Trophies’ shared on social media reveal scale of mass bird slaughter in Lebanon

Spoorthy Raman 17 Apr 2025
timber Brazil

Fake documents, real deforestation drive global trade in illegal Amazon timber

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Apr 2025
Banner image of Nandera, a crime-fighting African giant pouched rat. Image by Lucia Torres/Mongabay.

Giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife trade

Mongabay.com 15 Apr 2025
Maltese Falcon Poachers: European hunters endanger Egypt's birds

Maltese Falcon Poachers: European hunters endanger Egypt’s birds

Mahmoud Elsobky, Wael El-Sayegh 2 Apr 2025

Smuggling networks exploit migrant debt to fuel tiger poaching in Malaysia, study shows

Keith Anthony Fabro 1 Apr 2025
Fishing vessel. Image courtesy of Nicolas Job / Ocean Image Bank.

Panama conducts large illegal fishing bust in protected Pacific waters

Edward Carver 28 Mar 2025
Zeeshan Mirza with one of the new tarantula species from the Western Ghats. Mirza has discovered several species of reptiles in India as well. Photo courtesy of Mirza.

Exploring India, finding new species: Interview with biologist Zeeshan Mirza

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2025

Nepal collaborates with neighbors to gain wildlife crime intel but struggles with enforcement

Kosh Raj Koirala 26 Mar 2025
A judge watches a cockfight in Peru.

How Peruvian cockfighters could tip the scales for endangered sawfish

Sierra Garcia 25 Mar 2025
spiny lizard green

Regulation loopholes fuel illegal wildlife trade from Latin America to Europe

Spoorthy Raman 24 Mar 2025
Banner image of a Cao-vit gibbon with an infant by Nguyen Duc Tho / Fauna & Flora

Baby sightings spark hope for critically endangered gibbons in Vietnam

Kristine Sabillo 21 Mar 2025
A Burmese python (Python bivittatus) and an American alligator locked in in Florida's everglades. Native to Southeast Asia, the pythons were brought to South Florida as exotic pets and are now an invasive species threatening native fauna. Image © Lori Oberhofer, National Park Service.

Both legal and illegal wildlife trade ‘need better monitoring’: Interview with Alice Hughes

Spoorthy Raman 19 Mar 2025
Banner image of a scarlet-rumped trogon (Harpactes duvaucelii) in Sumatra, courtesy of Panji Gusti Akbar.

Indigenous schools ensure next generations protect Borneo’s ‘omen birds’

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2025

Indonesia’s militarized crackdown on illegal forest use sparks human rights concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2025

Wave of arrests as Madagascar shuts down tortoise trafficking network

Rivonala Razafison 17 Feb 2025

Wild Targets

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025

China’s pangolin scale trade declines, study shows, but smuggling persists

Keith Anthony Fabro 14 Feb 2025

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