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A white rhino browsing grass. Image by Brook Ward via Flickr (CC BY-NC-2.0)

Mozambique busts notorious rhino poacher

Estacio Valoi 1 Aug 2022
“Guardians of the Forest” Paulo Paulino Guajajara (left) and Laércio Guajajara (right)

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

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2022
Erasmo and Natalha Theofilo

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

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jun 2022
Dom Phillips, interviewing the Ashaninka Indigenous people

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

Sue Branford 16 Jun 2022
Group of elephants facing the camera, the nearest with trunk raised and ears fanned. Image by Aftab Uzzaman via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

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

Farayi Machamire 1 Jun 2022
Tourists petting a tiger cub at Doc Antle's Myrtle Beach Tiger Safari in South Carolina, U.S. Antle faces federal charges for wildlife trafficking.

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

Sharon Guynup 31 May 2022

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 May 2022
Forest elephants in the Congo Basin.

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

Malavika Vyawahare 18 May 2022
Coca plantation on a hillside near Caranavi, western Bolivia.

All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2022

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

Annelise Giseburt 24 Mar 2022

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

Mongabay 4 Mar 2022

Links between terrorism and the ivory trade overblown, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Feb 2022

Attack on environmental lawyer’s home alarms DRC rights defenders

Soraya Kishtwari 25 Jan 2022

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

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 25 Nov 2021
South-central black rhino standing in tawny grass. Image by Yoky via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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

Charles Mpaka 30 Sep 2021
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Malaysian hornbill bust reveals live trafficking trend in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan 29 Sep 2021

As tigers dwindle, Indonesia takes aim at poaching ring

Junaidi Hanafiah 27 Sep 2021

For sustainable global fisheries, watchdogs focus on onshore beneficial owners

Basten Gokkon 17 Sep 2021

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

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Sep 2021

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

Ian Morse 8 Jun 2021

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 May 2021

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

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2021

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

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2021

Legal failings leave illegal loggers unpunished and certified in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Feb 2021

Video: Romania’s deadly fight against illegal logging

Frederick Gillingham 20 Jan 2021

Colombian environmental official assassinated in southern Meta department

Antonio José Paz Cardona 7 Dec 2020

New paper highlights spread of organized crime from global fisheries

Basten Gokkon 4 Sep 2020

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

Aldo Benítez 5 Aug 2020

Forest crimes persist in Peru following Indigenous leader’s murder

Yvette Sierra Praeli 3 Aug 2020

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

Aldo Benítez 31 Jul 2020

Marijuana farms expand in Paraguay reserve despite gov’t crackdowns

Aldo Benítez 27 Jul 2020

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