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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

Lady Gaga gets bitten by venomous primate, sparking outrage over loris trafficking

Jeremy Hance 25 Feb 2014

Madagascar’s most famous lemur facing big threats

Marni Lafleur 18 Dec 2013

New project works to raise the profile of the world’s littlest bear

Jeremy Hance 2 Dec 2013

98% of marine fish headed for the aquarium trade die within a year in the Philippines

Natalie Millar 22 Oct 2013

Rihanna poses with endangered primate stolen from the wild

Jeremy Hance 23 Sep 2013

Smuggler who illegally traded 500 chimps gets one year in prison

Jeremy Hance 27 Aug 2013

Illegally captured parrots finally free to fly

Emily Eggleston 19 Aug 2013

How YouTube has put the world’s only poisonous primates at risk

Jeremy Hance 25 Jul 2013

Rare and threatened freshwater fish plundered for aquarium trade in India

Jemma Smith 25 Jul 2013

Zoos call on governments to take urgent action against illegal wildlife trade (photos)

Jeremy Hance 24 Jul 2013

Featured video: saving animals from the illegal pet trade in Guatemala

Jeremy Hance 22 Jul 2013

Illegal wildlife trade flourishes in Sumatra

Anne Usher 10 Jun 2013

Loris champion: conserving the world’s most surprising primate family

Jeremy Hance 4 Jun 2013

Monitor lizards vanishing to international trade in pets and skins

Jeremy Hance 4 Jun 2013

Five percent of ploughshare tortoise population perishes after botched smuggling attempt

Jeremy Hance 14 May 2013

Bizarre, little-known carnivore sold as illegal pet in Indonesian markets (photo)

Jeremy Hance 24 Apr 2013

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