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New bill seeks to end Hong Kong’s days as an illegal wildlife trade hub

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 May 2021

Skin in the game? Reptile leather trade embroils conservation authority

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Apr 2021

Study highlights ‘terrible’ signs of species decline from wildlife trade

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Feb 2021

In the fight to save the vaquita, conservationists take on cartels

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Feb 2021

Crimefighting NGO tracks Brazil wildlife trade on WhatsApp and Facebook

Peter Yeung 23 Nov 2020

China still making pangolin-based treatments despite banning use of scales, report says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Oct 2020

Landed by the thousands: Overfished Congo waters put endangered sharks at risk

Sharon Guynup 23 Sep 2020

The other Corona: Rescued pangolin is a rehabilitation success story

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2020

Illegal trade of Philippine pangolins is surging, report shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Aug 2020

Double blow to Colombian Amazon and Indigenous groups from armed militants, COVID-19

Dimitri Selibas 31 Jul 2020

Arrests in Indonesian probe into latest case of labor abuses on Chinese fishing boats

Basten Gokkon 28 Jul 2020

Indonesia presses China for witness in deaths of fishing boat crews

Basten Gokkon 21 Jul 2020

Drug trafficking could be putting ‘fragile fisheries’ at risk, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jul 2020

Banned: No more pangolin scales in traditional medicine, China declares

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2020

Chinese boat that dumped Indonesian crews at sea was also shark-finning: Reports

Basten Gokkon 13 May 2020

Authorities seize record 26 tons of illegal shark fins in Hong Kong

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 May 2020

Malaysian authorities seize record 6 tons of African pangolin scales

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Apr 2020

Fuel trafficking sustains illegal mining in Peru’s Madre de Dios

Vanessa Romo 31 Jul 2019
Small-scale deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Colombia gasoline fueling cocaine production

Taran Volckhausen 28 Jun 2019

Social media enables the illegal wildlife pet trade in Malaysia

John Cannon 9 May 2019
Ankarana sportive lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis), an endangered species whose habitat is threatened by rosewood logging. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Singapore acquits trader in world’s biggest rosewood bust, worth $50m

Edward Carver 19 Apr 2019

Possible vaquita death accompanies announcement that only 10 are left

Mongabay.com 18 Mar 2019
Natural Burmese teak on a deck at the London Boat Show. Photo by Sophie Cohen/Mongabay.

Late timber kingpin who plundered Myanmar’s forests unmasked

Lauren Crothers 5 Mar 2019
Ornately carved Buddhist statues for sale in Dong Ky, Vietnam. Photo by Chris Humphrey.

Tracing the safeguards against illegal logging in Vietnam

Kit Humphrey 4 Dec 2018

Illegal wildlife trade’s ‘dirty money’ targeted by big banks

James Fair 19 Oct 2018

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

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2018
A non-native smallmouth bass eats a native sucker. Credit: UDWR

Global wildlife trafficking still a ‘lucrative criminal activity,’ expert says

Genevieve Belmaker 20 Sep 2018

Fingerprinting technology gives investigators an edge against pangolin traffickers

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2018

In Peru, coca puts one of the world’s best coffee crops at risk

Vanessa Romo 18 Jun 2018

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

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2018

More murders: Conservationists allegedly killed by soldiers in Cambodia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Jan 2018

Fang trafficking to China is putting Bolivia’s jaguars in jeopardy

Roberto Navia 26 Jan 2018

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