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Sun bear

Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2023
Rock gecko

For Vietnam’s rare reptiles, lack of captive populations may spell doom

Carolyn Cowan 21 Sep 2023
A rescued falcon, likely a peregrine

Falcon trafficking soars in Middle East, fueled by conflict and poverty

Lyse Mauvais 10 Aug 2023

Popular aquarium fish from Thailand and Myanmar is new-to-science species

Liz Kimbrough 14 Jul 2023
Loris

When “cute” is cruel: Social media videos stoke loris pet trade, study says

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jun 2023

Trapping holds back speed of bird recovery in a Sumatran forest, study shows

Basten Gokkon 11 May 2023
A golden blue-legged baboon spider.

Study: Online trade in arachnids threatens some species with extinction

Ryan Truscott 1 Mar 2023

New protections for sharks, songbirds, frogs and more at CITES trade summit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Nov 2022
Jaguar skin for sale at the Belen market

A fast-growing pipeline: The Amazon-to-Southeast Asia wildlife trade

Sharon Guynup 18 Oct 2022
Pygmy loris

The slow, toxic and sleepy life of lorises is coded in their genes

Carolyn Cowan 11 Oct 2022

Big data monitoring tool aims to catch up to Indonesia’s booming online bird trade

Basten Gokkon 16 Sep 2022
Long-tailed macaque. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Endangered species listing of long-tailed macaques: ‘shocking, painful, predictable’ (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 17 Aug 2022

Study casts doubt on sustainability of regulated blood python snakeskin trade

Basten Gokkon 2 Jun 2022

A helping hand for red-footed tortoises making a comeback in Argentina

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 May 2022
A pink-headed fruit dove.

‘It’s just a bird’: Online platforms selling lesser-known Indonesian species

Sean Mowbray 17 May 2022
Headshot of an African grey parrot in profile. Image by Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

Ugandan court hands Congolese parrot trafficker seven-year jail sentence

Benjamin Jumbe 13 May 2022
Clownfish can reportedly lay clutches of over 1000 eggs.

Pilot program tries to get U.S. aquariums to raise their own fish, not catch them

Ashley Stumvoll 21 Apr 2022
ransgenic zebrafish expressing different fluorescent colours.

GM fish engineered to glow in the dark are found in Brazil creeks

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2022
The silvery pigeon is one of the most threatened pigeon species in the world. As a seed disperser, this species helps contribute to the overall biodiversity of the small islands it inhabits, according to researcher Simon Bruslund.

Online trade in rare silvery pigeon is cause for concern, researchers say

Sean Mowbray 30 Mar 2022

Campaigners against dog meat trade take on one Indonesian city at a time

Eko Widianto 7 Mar 2022
Gibbon

Greater Mekong primates struggle to cling on amid persistent threats: Report

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jan 2022

Wild cat trade: Why the cheetah is not safe just yet (commentary)

Patricia Tricorache and Tomas Maule 12 Jan 2022
Seized sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleonora) in East Java, Indonesia.

Indonesia ranks high on legal wildlife trade, but experts warn it masks illegal trade

Basten Gokkon 3 Dec 2021
A siamang in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In Bali, prominent official faces backlash over illegal pet gibbon

Luh De Suriyani 7 Oct 2021

Philippine forest turtles stand a ‘good chance’ after first wild release

Leilani Chavez 28 Jun 2021
Philippine tarsier

Researchers look to locals to fill knowledge gap on Philippine tarsier

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jun 2021

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

Ian Morse 8 Jun 2021

CSI, but for parrots: Study applies criminological tool CRAAVED to wildlife trade

Grace Dungey, Nick Rodway 7 Jun 2021

An Amazonian arapaima washed up in a Florida river. It didn’t swim there

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Apr 2021
A Bornean orangutan. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Forest patches amid agriculture are key to orangutan survival: Study

John Cannon 26 Feb 2021

Study highlights ‘terrible’ signs of species decline from wildlife trade

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Feb 2021

Current protected areas not enough to save parrots from extinction: Study

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jan 2021

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