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China seizes totoaba swim bladders worth $26 million, arrests 16

Mongabay.com 29 Dec 2018

Graphic video reveals brutality of pangolin poaching in northeast India

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2018
Naisimari Lentula, a Yiaku herbalist, with a community forest scout outside her house. Image by Shadrack Kavilu for Mongabay.

For Kenya’s Yiaku, medicinal herbs are their forest’s blessing and curse

Shadrack Kavilu 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

Int’l protections not stopping pangolin overexploitation in Cameroon

John Cannon 8 Oct 2018

And then there were 12: Why don’t we hear about extinction until it’s too late? (commentary)

Sam Turvey 6 Jul 2018

Fingerprinting technology gives investigators an edge against pangolin traffickers

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2018

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

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2018

Black rhinos return to Zakouma National Park in Chad

Mongabay.com 7 May 2018

More than 800 totoaba swim bladders confiscated by Mexican authorities in smuggling busts

John Cannon 1 May 2018

Half a ton of pangolin scales seized on the way to Asia from Benin

John Cannon 19 Apr 2018

Ecotourism payments for more wildlife sightings linked to conservation benefits in Laos

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2018

Reliance on natural healing cultivates respect for nature in Indonesian village

Wahyu Chandra 9 Jan 2018

Rhino DNA database helps officials nab poachers and traffickers

Mongabay.com 8 Jan 2018

Amazon tribe’s traditional medicine encyclopedia gets an update, and conservation effectiveness in Madagascar examined

Mike Gaworecki 12 Dec 2017

First vaquita ‘rescued’ in bid to save the porpoise from extinction

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2017

Bats key pollinators for durian production, camera traps confirm

John Cannon 3 Oct 2017

Rhino horn on the auction block in South Africa

John Cannon 22 Aug 2017

Singapore is world’s second largest shark-fin trader: TRAFFIC

Shreya Dasgupta 26 May 2017

Rwanda welcomes 20 black rhinos to Akagera National Park

Mongabay.com 3 May 2017

A Czech zoo is dehorning its rhinos

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Mar 2017
Black rhino mom and calf

Reducing Asia’s hunger for rhino horn

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Mar 2017

Poachers kill rhino at French zoo

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Mar 2017

Proposed Trump policy threatens Critically Endangered Grauer’s gorilla

Sharon Guynup 21 Feb 2017

It’s World Pangolin Day!

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Feb 2017

Fighting rhino poaching in India, CSI-style

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Feb 2017

Indigenous traditional knowledge revival helps conserve great apes

Giovanni Ortolani 20 Jan 2017

China seizes over 3,000 kg of pangolin scales in biggest-ever smuggling case

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2016

Its own rhinos hunted to extinction, Vietnam is a hub for the rhino horn trade

Isabel Esterman 10 Nov 2016

Elephant poaching costs African nations $25 million a year in lost tourism revenue

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Nov 2016

Hunted to the brink: Mammals in crisis

John Cannon 24 Oct 2016

Lao PDR commits to shut its commercial tiger farms

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Sep 2016

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