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Mozambique busts notorious rhino poacher

Indigenous advocates sense a legal landmark as a guardian’s killing heads to trial

Amazon rainforest activist under threat in Brazil plans to flee his home

Deaths of Phillips and Pereira shine light on a region of the Amazon beset by violence

Cash-strapped Zimbabwe pushes to be allowed to sell its ivory stockpile

Year of the Tiger: Illegal trade thrives amid efforts to save wild tigers

Slick operator: Indonesian cooking oil probe may spread to biodiesel industry

Ivory from at least 150 poached elephants seized in the DRC raid

All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine

Study links many reported fisheries crimes to just a few repeat offenders

Cold case: Half-hearted prosecution lets ivory traffickers escape in Uganda

Links between terrorism and the ivory trade overblown, study says

Attack on environmental lawyer’s home alarms DRC rights defenders

Wildlife trade hub Vietnam is also hub of impunity for traffickers, report says

Malawi court sentences Chinese wildlife trafficking kingpin to 14 years in jail

Malaysian hornbill bust reveals live trafficking trend in Southeast Asia

As tigers dwindle, Indonesia takes aim at poaching ring

For sustainable global fisheries, watchdogs focus on onshore beneficial owners

Lockdowns didn’t stop 2020 being deadliest year yet for earth defenders

Unregulated by U.S. at home, Facebook boosts wildlife trafficking abroad

New bill seeks to end Hong Kong’s days as an illegal wildlife trade hub

In the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, an illegal road for cattle and drugs

Indonesian omnibus law’s ‘whitewash’ of illegal palm oil shocks its architects

Exposing organized crime in the Amazon: Q&A with Robert Muggah of the Igarapé Institute

Legal failings leave illegal loggers unpunished and certified in Indonesia

Video: Romania’s deadly fight against illegal logging

Colombian environmental official assassinated in southern Meta department

New paper highlights spread of organized crime from global fisheries

Understaffed and under threat: Paraguay’s park rangers pay the ultimate price

Forest crimes persist in Peru following Indigenous leader’s murder

No choice: Why communities in Paraguay are cutting down forests to survive

Marijuana farms expand in Paraguay reserve despite gov’t crackdowns

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