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White-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis), Gabon. Image by bureaubenjamin via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Pandemic-era slump in ivory and pangolin scale trafficking persists, report finds

Spoorthy Raman 17 Jun 2025
A shortfin mako

Endangered shark trophies dominate the online wildlife trade, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 11 Jun 2025
Pangolin at the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre in 2022

High-profile wildlife trafficking case tests Malawi’s conservation commitment

Madalitso Wills Kateta 10 Jun 2025
Asian small-clawed otter

DNA probe links Japan’s otter-themed cafes to poaching hotspots in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 26 May 2025
Community rangers guard elephants in Sera Conservancy, Northern Rangelands, Kenya.

Wildlife crime crackdown in jeopardy worldwide after US funding cuts

Carolyn Cowan, Charles Mpaka, Gerald Flynn, Hans Nicholas Jong, Philip Jacobson, Spoorthy Raman 22 May 2025
Puff Adder, a venomous snake from Africa, topped the list of vertebrates with the highest risk of being invasive in the U.S.

Venomous snakes, freshwater fish among legally traded species most likely to become invasive in US

Spoorthy Raman 19 May 2025

China drops pangolin formulas from approved TCM list, but concerns remain

Keith Anthony Fabro 16 May 2025

Cape vulture conservation offers hope, but challenges remain

Sean Mowbray 14 May 2025
Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica

Indonesian pangolin trafficking prosecution reveals police involvement — and impunity

Ayat S. Karokaro 14 May 2025
A giant girdled lizard, also known as a sungazer (Smaug giganteus). Image by Cloudtail the Snow Leopard via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Traffickers slither through loopholes with wild-caught African snakes and lizards

Ryan Truscott 13 May 2025
A male African lion in Serengeti National Park.

Trophies, body parts & live animals dominate global lion trade, data show

Alex Shaw, Spoorthy Raman 8 May 2025
The rescue team carries a deer rescued from an artificial amusement park.

Bangladesh cracks down on illegal wildlife captivity — but what happens after?

Abu Siddique, Sadiqur Rahman 6 May 2025
A chimpanzee of Mikeno Lodge in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image by Joseph King via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Poaching intensifies in M23-occupied areas of Virunga National Park

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2025
Hooded vulture, Gambia 2017. Image by Pete Richman via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

In West Africa, hooded vultures vanish as abattoirs modernize

Ryan Truscott 24 Apr 2025
Long-tailed macaques being held at Sookvannaseng Integrated's breeding farm in Bolikhamsai province, Laos. Image supplied by source.

Data discrepancies suggest Laos monkey smuggling persists, despite trade ban

Gerald Flynn 23 Apr 2025
An endangered long-tailed macaque peeks out from a cage having been exported from Vietnam to Europe. Image supplied by Animal Rights BE.

Report alleges criminality in Cambodian, Vietnamese monkey trade

Gerald Flynn 21 Apr 2025
A siamang gibbon seized in Chennai, India in August 2024, along with turtles and pythons. It was being carried in the baggage of a passenger travelling from Bangkok.

Illegal trafficking of siamang gibbons is a concerning and underreported crisis (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 18 Apr 2025
Raffles' banded langur

Action plan aims to save Asia’s leaf-eating monkeys amid ‘alarming’ declines

Carolyn Cowan 15 Apr 2025

Back to the skies: the unlikely comeback of one of Brazil’s rarest parrots

Xavier Bartaburu 14 Apr 2025
Sumatran tigers are critically endangered.

Snared, skinned, sold: Brutal March for Indonesia’s Sumatran tigers

Junaidi Hanafiah, Rahmi Carolina, Vinolia 10 Apr 2025

What do CITES data tell us about the legal wildcat trade?

Alex Shaw, Spoorthy Raman 7 Apr 2025
A tokay gecko in Indonesia. Indonesia is the world's largest exporter of these geckos, with more than 8 million harvest quotas issued in 2022.

Amid fuzzy data, scientists urge monitoring of Hong Kong’s tokay gecko trade

Spoorthy Raman 3 Apr 2025
The Bioko Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus poensis), an endangered primate endemic to Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, is highly valued for its taste, making it the most expensive wild meat on the market. Image by Ian Nichols.

An oil-rich West African island offers decades of insight into the wild meat trade

Spoorthy Raman 2 Apr 2025

Smuggling networks exploit migrant debt to fuel tiger poaching in Malaysia, study shows

Keith Anthony Fabro 1 Apr 2025
Zeeshan Mirza with one of the new tarantula species from the Western Ghats. Mirza has discovered several species of reptiles in India as well. Photo courtesy of Mirza.

Exploring India, finding new species: Interview with biologist Zeeshan Mirza

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2025

Nepal collaborates with neighbors to gain wildlife crime intel but struggles with enforcement

Kosh Raj Koirala 26 Mar 2025
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

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