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Indonesia’s birds being wiped out by pet trade

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2016

Thousands of Southeast Asian newts being collected from the wild for pet trade

Shreya Dasgupta 26 May 2016

Half of Sumatra’s forests within reach of the average bird trapper

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2016

‘Status symbols’: Japan emerging as major hub for illegal trade in slow lorises due to their popularity as pets

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Feb 2016

The dangers of China’s ‘thumb monkey’ trend

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Feb 2016

Meet the new spider named after Johnny Cash

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2016

Peru issues its first sentence against species traffickers, setting a precedent

Ruxandra Guidi 28 Jan 2016

Popular pet fish listed as “threatened” under Endangered Species Act

Ret Talbot 21 Jan 2016

Quantifying the aquarium trade to help it become more sustainable

Ret Talbot 20 Jan 2016

Facebook posts lead to arrest of two suspected tortoise thieves

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Jan 2016

Bolivia’s domestic parrot trade supplied by birds seen as “crop pests”

Sean Mowbray 21 Dec 2015

Bellavista no more: Peru’s infamous wildlife market reduced to rubble

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 17 Dec 2015

The week in environmental news – Dec 12, 2015

Brittany Stewart 12 Dec 2015

‘Catastrophic’ decline: nearly 99% of African grey parrots wiped out in Ghana

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Dec 2015

Farmed and legally exported Colombian poison frogs take on the illegal pet trade

John-Rob Pool 18 Nov 2015

Photos: ‘Shocking’ scale of illegal trade in Indian star tortoise uncovered

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Nov 2015

Clouded leopards traded more than tigers in some illegal markets

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Oct 2015
Juvenile syntype of the Golden-crowned langur (Presbytis johnaspinalli). Courtesy of Nardelli 2015.

Bird market photo yields an unknown monkey species in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Oct 2015

Happy July 4th weekend: new red, white, and blue species discovered

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2015

Chinese turtle heist sends rare Philippine species to brink of extinction, international rescue underway

Glenn Scherer 29 Jun 2015

New campaign says ‘tickling is torture’ for slow lorises

Jeremy Hance 17 Jun 2015

Price trends a reliable, cheap indicator of wildlife declines, finds study

Mongabay.com 15 May 2015

30 illegal orangutan pets seized in West Kalimantan

Aseanty Pahlevi 5 May 2015

New species of monitor lizards found on the black market

Michael Buelna 27 Mar 2015

Meet the world’s most wanted environmental criminals

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2014

Pet trade likely responsible for killer salamander fungus

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2014

When cute turns deadly – the story of a wildlife biologist who was bit by a venomous slow loris, and lived to tell the tale

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2014

Infamous pet and zoo supplier lost 3,500 animals a week (photos)

Shayna Wilson 2 Oct 2014

Did the world’s only venomous primate evolve to mimic the cobra?

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Sep 2014

Bizarre lizard newest victim of reptile pet trade

Jeremy Hance 15 Sep 2014

Conservationists use social media to take on Peru’s booming illegal wildlife trade

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Sep 2014

Islamic clerics issue ‘fatwa’ against poaching, declare the illegal wildlife trade ‘haram’

Diana Parker 10 Mar 2014

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