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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

Translocation brings white rhinos to Rwanda, a new land for an old species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Dec 2021
A herd of elephants gets a drink in Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Calls for swift action as hundreds of elephants die in Botswana’s Okavango Delta

Ed Holt 2 Jul 2020

Rwanda’s Akagera park thrives thanks to community-led anti-poaching drive

Maggie Andresen 29 Apr 2020

For nesting hawksbill turtles, this Philippine community is a sanctuary

Erwin M. Mascariñas 31 Mar 2020

Rangers in Indonesia’s Aceh to get guns as officials flex on violators

Basten Gokkon 16 Jan 2020
clearing mines in Angola, a HALO Trust worker wearing blue protective gear on his knees probing grass and dirt with his hands. Credit: The HALO Trust

Angola pledges $60m to fund landmine clearance in national parks

Jim Tan 25 Jun 2019

Elephant in the room: Botswana deals with pachyderm population pressure

Johan Augustin 12 Mar 2019

Trouble in Botswana’s elephant paradise as poaching said to rise

Johan Augustin 5 Mar 2019

Chinese ‘Queen of Ivory’ sentenced to 15 years in jail for tusk trafficking

Mongabay.com 20 Feb 2019

Corruption-riddled caviar trade pushes fish closer to extinction

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2019

Rapid population drop weakened the Grauer’s gorilla gene pool

John Cannon 10 Jan 2019

Virtual meetup highlights networked sensor technology for parks

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 30 Nov 2018
Pair of jaguar in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Progress on jaguar conservation in Suriname

Mark J. Plotkin 20 Nov 2018

$25m in funding to help African gov’ts prosecute poachers, traffickers

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2018

87 elephants found dead in Botswana, one of last safe havens for the species

Mongabay.com 5 Sep 2018

Poachers caught on video killing mother bear and cubs at den in Alaska

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2018

Two suspected poachers arrested for killing of Sumatran elephant

Mongabay.com 5 Jul 2018

Last Glimpses of a Cambodian Paradise? Documenting an area on the eve of its likely destruction (commentary)

Gregory McCann 22 Jun 2018

Poachers blamed in second Sumatran elephant death this year

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Jun 2018

New technology leads to the arrest of eight people suspected of trafficking wildlife parts

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2018

Wildlife trade detective Samuel Wasser receives prestigious Albert Schweitzer Medal

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Apr 2018

Robbery or retribution? Police investigate death of prominent conservationist in Kenya

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2018

Powering cameras and empowering people

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 1 Feb 2018

Poachers blamed as body of Sumatran elephant, missing tusks, found in protected forest

Taufik Wijaya 11 Jan 2018

Indonesian ex-soldier among three jailed for illegal trade in Sumatran rhino, tiger parts

Ayat S. Karokaro 10 Jan 2018

Forced out or killed: rare chimps go missing from Cameroon mountain forest

Eugene N. Nforngwa 1 Dec 2017

Rhino horn on the auction block in South Africa

John Cannon 22 Aug 2017

Pangolin hunting skyrockets in Central Africa, driven by international trade

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2017
Giraffes roam in Garamba National Park in DRC. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

DRC’s Garamba National Park: The last giraffes of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 9 May 2017
Park rangers on patrol in Garamba National Park in DRC earlier this month. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

2 wildlife rangers shot and killed by poachers in Congo park

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2017

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