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Brazil claims record shark fin bust: Nearly 29 tons from 10,000 sharks seized

Karla Mendes 29 Jun 2023
Loris

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

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jun 2023
A lioness with cubs

Return of the lions: Large protected areas in Africa attract apex predator

Petro Kotzé 13 Jun 2023

Survival and economics complicate the DRC’s bushmeat and wild animal trade

John Cannon and Didier Makal 30 May 2023

Landmark Nepal court ruling ends impunity for wealthy wildlife collectors

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 May 2023
Camera-trap image of a leopard.

Study: Snares claim another local extinction as Cambodia loses its leopards

Sean Mowbray 30 May 2023
Sumatran elephants in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler

Targeting 3% of protected areas could accelerate progress on 30×30 goals, says Global Conservation’s Jeff Morgan

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 May 2023
Sumatran rhinos

‘I’m not distressed, I’m just pissed off’: Q&A with Sumatran rhino expert John Payne

Jeremy Hance 11 May 2023

Australia bushfires may have caused global climate phenomenon La Niña: Study

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 May 2023
A clouded leopard.

Snares don’t discriminate: A problem for wild cats, both big and small

Sean Mowbray 5 May 2023

Flawed count puts ‘glorified’ Javan rhinos on path to extinction, report says

Basten Gokkon 11 Apr 2023

National corridor project aims to save Chile’s endangered huemul deer

Sean Mowbray 6 Apr 2023
rhino calves in Chitwan

For rescued rhino calves in Nepal, return to the wild is a fraught option

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Mar 2023
West African lioness Florence with one of her cubs.

Video of rare West African lion cubs sparks hope for the population

Liz Kimbrough 17 Mar 2023
A pangolin.

SE Asia’s COVID legacy is less wildlife trade, but more hunting, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 7 Mar 2023

Orangutan death in Sumatra points to human-wildlife conflict, illegal trade

Ayat S. Karokaro, Sri Wahyuni 6 Mar 2023
Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus).

Climate change is exacerbating human-wildlife conflict, but solutions await: Study

Tim Vernimmen 3 Mar 2023
A pair of cheer pheasants.

Mating season rings death knell for cheer pheasants in Nepal’s western Himalayas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Feb 2023
A coral reef in Thailand.

Thai government turns its sights on illegal coral trade

Kannikar Petchkaew 1 Feb 2023
A greater one-horned rhino and her calf.

Rare case of rhino poaching jolts conservation community in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Jan 2023
Tulshi Laxmi Suwal.

‘Sustainable livelihoods go a long way’: Q&A with pangolin expert Tulshi Suwal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Jan 2023
A heron in a tree.

Birds in Bangladesh find a new lease of life in community-run sanctuaries

Abu Siddique 13 Jan 2023
A tokay gecko.

Rumors and misconceptions threaten tokay geckos in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 10 Jan 2023
A reef shark in Fiji.

Sharks received landmark protection to combat fin trade, but the culling must stop (commentary)

Trang Chu Minh 3 Jan 2023
Pleione praecox flowers.

Illegal orchid trade threatens Nepal’s ‘tigers of the plant world’

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Dec 2022
A Philippine pangolin hangs on to a branch.

For Philippine pangolins, tourism’s return could spell trouble

Keith Anthony Fabro 12 Dec 2022

‘It was a shark operation’: Q&A with Indonesian crew abused on Chinese shark-finning boat

Philip Jacobson and Basten Gokkon 2 Dec 2022
A tiger in the Sundarbans.

Forest management tool could help rein in rampant wildlife trade in Bangladesh

Mahadi Al Hasnat 28 Nov 2022

Indonesia’s orangutans declining amid ‘lax’ and ‘laissez-faire’ law enforcement

Basten Gokkon 25 Nov 2022
Wader chick

Probe finds Vietnam faltering in bid to curb wildlife trade, animal suffering

Carolyn Cowan 23 Nov 2022
Long-tailed macaques roam free across the Angkor Wat temple complex

Alleged macaque-smuggling ring exposed as U.S. indicts Cambodian officials

Gerald Flynn 18 Nov 2022

Stem cells may make ‘impossible possible’ for near-extinct Sumatran rhino

Basten Gokkon 15 Nov 2022

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