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200,000 of Peru’s primates trafficked for pet trade or bushmeat yearly

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 11 Dec 2015
The study authors counted carcasses from hundreds of markets like this one, where visitors can purchase whole birds and their body parts. Photo by Gerhard Nikolaus.

Vanishing vultures: Africa’s fetish and bushmeat trade is driving its scavengers to extinction

Brendan Bane 19 Nov 2015

Sung te giac ethics: New wealth brings new responsibilities (commentary)

Mic Smith 30 Oct 2015

Oil roads to ecological ruin: Ecuador’s bushmeat and wildlife trade

Sean Mowbray 29 Oct 2015

Eaten to extinction? India’s purple frog faces another threat

Apoorva Joshi 26 Oct 2015

Killing of black macaques in Indonesia sparks debate over hunting

Themmy Doaly 21 Aug 2015

Feline Unseen: The African Golden Cat

Sean Mowbray 10 Aug 2015

Bushmeat in Tanzania has an unexpected consumer

Michael Buelna 21 Jul 2015

Scientists urge greater enforcement of wildlife laws in Africa

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2015

Chinese turtle heist sends rare Philippine species to brink of extinction, international rescue underway

Glenn Scherer 29 Jun 2015

Commercial bushmeat hunters put previously undetected pressure on Central Africa’s large birds

William Freedberg 20 Apr 2015

Expedition in the Congo rediscovers lost primate

Jeremy Hance 14 Apr 2015

Bushmeat’s dual role: threatened species face off against nutrition and culture

Victor Montoro 5 Mar 2015

Adorbs: scientists capture first photos of African golden cat kittens

Jeremy Hance 28 Jan 2015

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2014

Use of mammals still prevalent in Brazil’s Conservation Units

Annam Raza 6 Oct 2014

Will ‘Asia’s unicorn’ survive? Hunting and deforestation continue in Vietnam biosphere reserve PART II

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Oct 2014

How did Ebola Zaïre Get to Guinea?

Analysis Daniel Stiles 5 Aug 2014

Conservation controversy: are bonobos protected in the right ways and in the right places?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jul 2014

Don’t eat or touch bat bushmeat amid worsening Ebola outbreak, UN warns

Jeremy Hance 29 Jul 2014

Over a million pangolins slaughtered in the last decade

Jeremy Hance 28 Jul 2014

Setting the stage: theater troupe revives tradition to promote conservation in DRC

Anna Ikarashi 22 Jul 2014

Is there hope for bonobos? Researchers, NGOs, gov’t officials, local communities band together to save iconic ape (Part III)

Fidelis Zvomuya 18 Jul 2014

Poaching, fires, farming pervade: protecting bonobos ‘an enormous challenge’ (Part II)

Fidelis Zvomuya 17 Jul 2014

Surrounded by deforestation, critically endangered gorillas hang on by a thread

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jul 2014

On babies and motherhood: how giant armadillos are surprising scientists (photos)

Jeremy Hance 1 Jul 2014

Is Cameroon becoming the new Indonesia? Palm oil plantations accelerating deforestation

John Cannon 25 Jun 2014

A taste for wildlife: what’s driving bushmeat hunting in Tanzania?

Julian Moll-rocek 25 Jun 2014

Indonesia’s forests increasingly empty of wildlife

Erik Meijaard 25 May 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Linking public health and environmental degradation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2014

Small monkeys take over when big primates have been hunted out in the Amazon

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 21 Apr 2014

Over 9,000 primates killed for single bushmeat market in West Africa every year

Ariel Mark 24 Mar 2014

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