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A judge watches a cockfight in Peru.

How Peruvian cockfighters could tip the scales for endangered sawfish

Sierra Garcia 25 Mar 2025
spiny lizard green

Regulation loopholes fuel illegal wildlife trade from Latin America to Europe

Spoorthy Raman 24 Mar 2025
A Burmese python (Python bivittatus) and an American alligator locked in in Florida's everglades. Native to Southeast Asia, the pythons were brought to South Florida as exotic pets and are now an invasive species threatening native fauna. Image © Lori Oberhofer, National Park Service.

Both legal and illegal wildlife trade ‘need better monitoring’: Interview with Alice Hughes

Spoorthy Raman 19 Mar 2025
A sea turtle.

Concerns of illegal sea turtle trade persist in Bali as police foil smugglers

Luh De Suriyani 27 Feb 2025
Western lowland gorilla.

‘Some people will die’: Conversations with Nigeria’s gorilla hunters

Orji Sunday 27 Feb 2025
Yellow-breasted bunting

How birds deepen our awareness of nature: Interview with Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok

Carolyn Cowan 24 Feb 2025

Conservation groups look for new strategies, tech to halt vaquita decline

Maxwell Radwin 17 Feb 2025

Wave of arrests as Madagascar shuts down tortoise trafficking network

Rivonala Razafison 17 Feb 2025

Massive songbird seizure highlights Indonesia’s unrelenting illegal wildlife trade

Keith Anthony Fabro 13 Feb 2025
Dora rewards Nandera with a mixture of avocado, banana and pellets.

Meet the giant rats fighting wildlife trafficking

Lucia Torres 12 Feb 2025
A long-tailed macaque in Bali, Indonesia.

Sun, sand and skulls: Bali tourism trade peddles threatened primate skulls

Spoorthy Raman 12 Feb 2025
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

CITES rejects proposed suspension of Cambodian monkey exports

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2025
A lion in a cage

Nearly 20,000 animals seized in global wildlife trafficking crackdown

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2025

Report reveals staggering levels of wildlife trafficking in Hispanic America

Spoorthy Raman 7 Feb 2025
Seized live turtles belonging to Pangshura tecta, Morenia petersi and Lissemys punctata species temporarily sheltered at the Forest Department enclosures before releasing them into the wild again.

Illegal trade is pushing Bangladesh’s freshwater turtles to the brink

Sadiqur Rahman 3 Feb 2025
Long-tailed-macaques-in-Kampong-Cham-province,-Cambodia

CITES secretariat urges suspension of Cambodian long-tailed macaque trade

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2025
An agile gibbon in Berlin Zoo.

Increase in gibbon trafficking into India has conservationists worried

Spoorthy Raman 29 Jan 2025

Introducing wildlife crime to Nepal’s law enforcement: Interview with Prasanna Yonzon

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jan 2025

Vietnam grapples with ‘alarming popularity’ of online illegal wildlife trade

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2025
Philippine pangolin mother and baby.

China’s new pangolin quota for TCM sparks conservation concerns

Keith Anthony Fabro 24 Jan 2025

Elephants, gorillas and chimps hold out in Cameroon’s largest protected landscape

Leocadia Bongben 16 Jan 2025

For Ugandan farmers, good fences make good neighbors — of elephants

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Jan 2025
A Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) from Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia’s voracious songbird trade laps up rare and poisonous pitohuis

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jan 2025
radiated tortoise

How tortoise conservationist Hery Razafimamonjiraibe manages risks to antipoaching teams

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2025
A bottlenose wedgefish (Rhynchobatus australiae).

New evidence spells massive trouble for world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jan 2025
Zeeshan Mirza examines a new tarantula species found in India's western Ghats

Four new tarantula species found in India’s Western Ghats mountains

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2024

Tortoise protection culture prompts efforts to curb trafficking in Madagascar

Carolyn Cowan 30 Dec 2024
An adult radiated tortoise

Massive tortoise rewilding in Madagascar’s spiny forest strives to save fraught species

Carolyn Cowan 26 Dec 2024
Sharks cast aside after being finned.

No signs of slowdown in wildlife trafficking in 2024 as demand persists

Keith Anthony Fabro 25 Dec 2024

Jaguar tracks still stained with blood in Bolivia

Iván Paredes Tamayo 24 Dec 2024

A universal tagging system for pangolins, world’s most trafficked mammal

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Dec 2024

‘Killed while poaching’: When wildlife enforcement blurs into violence

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Dec 2024

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