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Deforestation surges in Virunga National Park in the wake of violence

Benji Jones 5 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Black market jaguars, freed green macaws

Mongabay.com 23 Sep 2018

In protecting the Javan rhino, locals gain a ‘more meaningful life’

Donny Iqbal 10 Aug 2018
Rangers in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

DRC’s Virunga National Park closes until 2019 due to violence

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2018

Rangers face a ‘toxic mix’ of mental strain and lack of support

Jim Tan 24 May 2018

After exporting baby elephants, Zimbabwe pledges to turn over new leaf on conservation

Jeremy Hance 23 Jan 2018

SMART and well-Connected: reserve patrol data system adds communications capacity

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Oct 2017
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Two things you can do for World Ranger Day

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2017

Conservation group African Parks to look after West African wildlife

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 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
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Protecting gorillas at all costs: park rangers of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 20 Nov 2016

Park ranger murdered while trying to protect rare gorillas

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Oct 2016
Rangers at Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. Photo by Ninara via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Poaching in Africa becomes increasingly militarized

William H. Funk 12 Sep 2016
Lar National Park in northern Iran, about 100 kilometers from Tehran. Photo by Mahdi Kalhor via Panoramio

Three murders highlight troubles of Iran’s park rangers

Jennifer Huizen 18 Aug 2016

The assassinations of Mother Nature’s guardians (commentary)

Fred Bercovitch 24 May 2016

In Aceh, an illegal logger reformed

Junaidi Hanafiah 5 Jun 2015

World Ranger Day: honoring our wildlife protectors

Laurel Neme 31 Jul 2014

Requiem or recovery?: the Sumatran rhino 200 years after its description

Bill Konstant With The International Rhino Foundation 8 Jan 2014

Tanzania should implement shoot-to-kill policy for poachers, says government minister

David Smith 9 Oct 2013

Poachers kill 2 rangers in Thailand

Mongabay.com 24 Sep 2013

Obama to take on elephant and rhino poaching in Africa

Suzanne Goldenberg 3 Jul 2013

On guard: protecting wildlife in a heavily hunted Brazilian forest

Dr Liz Kimbrough 24 Jun 2013

Infamous elephant poacher turns cannibal in the Congo

Pete Jones 3 Apr 2013

Poachers enlisting impoverished wildlife rangers as accomplices in elephant, rhino killing

Oliver Milman 1 Apr 2013

Rhino wars: documenting the poaching crisis in South Africa

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2013

‘The ivory trade is like drug trafficking’ (warning graphic images)

Alejandra Martins 5 Nov 2012

The riot over rhinos: how a luxury and illegal commodity is driving the slaughter of one of the world’s iconic megafauna

Erica Santana 15 Oct 2012

In midst of rhino poaching epidemic, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy has happy problem: too many black rhinos

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2012

Poacher known as ‘Morgan’ behind devastating massacre at Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Jeremy Hance 5 Jul 2012

Carnage in Komodo: world-famous reef destroyed by poachers’ bombs

Jeremy Hance 25 Apr 2012

Blood rosewood: Thailand and Cambodia team up to tackle illegal logging crisis and save lives

Jeremy Hance 11 Apr 2012

Kruger National Park loses 95 rhinos to poachers in three months

Jeremy Hance 5 Apr 2012

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