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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

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

Pet trade relies on ‘disposable’ wild chameleons from Madagascar

Chris Scarffe 20 Jan 2021

Songbird trade in Indonesia threatens wild Sunda laughingthrush

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2020

Crimefighting NGO tracks Brazil wildlife trade on WhatsApp and Facebook

Peter Yeung 23 Nov 2020

Tradable by default: Reptile trafficking flourishes amid lack of protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Oct 2020
An adult male Loris showing its teeth. Photo by by Andrew Walmsley courtesy of the Little Fireface Project.

Armed and dangerous, ‘murder lorises’ use their venom against each other

Liz Kimbrough 19 Oct 2020

Stolen from the wild, rare reptiles and amphibians are freely traded in EU

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Sep 2020

‘We are losing’: Q&A with The Orangutan Project’s Leif Cocks on saving the great ape

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Aug 2020

Turtles and tortoises in trouble: More than half of all species face extinction

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jul 2020

Trafficking of thousands of songbirds highlights rampant trade in Indonesia

Ayat S. Karokaro 3 Jul 2020

Less than a thousand remain: New list of animals on the brink of extinction

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jun 2020

Prized as pets, are ball pythons being traded out of wild existence?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 May 2020

‘Don’t let your cat outside’: Q&A with author Peter Christie

John Cannon 26 May 2020

Call for prosecution of Indonesian politician who kept baby orangutan as pet

Ayat S. Karokaro 26 Feb 2020

Let’s take the fight to social media giants and protect endangered monkeys and apes (commentary)

Gregg Tully 20 Feb 2020

Time is running out for Southeast Asia

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2019
Hill Myna, Gracula religiosa, for sale in a bird market, Java, Indonesia. photo credit: Gabby Salazar

Mischaracterizing the conservation benefits of trade (commentary)

Brett R. Scheffers; Brunno F. Oliveira; Ieuan Lamb; and David P. Edwards 8 Nov 2019

Legal and illegal trade negatively impacting survival and wellbeing of Africa’s wildlife: Report

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2019

Finally, Latin America is tackling wildlife trafficking (commentary)

Susan Lieberman 2 Oct 2019

Cheetahs, CITES, and illegal trade: Are consumer countries doing enough? (commentary)

Sarah Durant 30 Sep 2019

Asian otters gain protection from the pet trade

Erik Hoffner 6 Sep 2019

Discovery of a metallic-blue tarantula bolsters case for trade protection

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Aug 2019

Bid for greater protection of star tortoise, a trafficking mainstay

Dennis Mombauer 16 Aug 2019

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