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Elephant poachers kill British helicopter pilot, 5 suspects arrested

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Feb 2016

Myanmar emerging as a major hub for smuggling pangolins to China

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jan 2016

Over-hunting’s surprising connection to global warming

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jan 2016

Sri Lanka crushes and destroys over 350 ivory tusks

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Jan 2016

Man selling monkey heads on eBay sentenced, supplier in Indonesia arrested

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jan 2016

Popular pet fish listed as “threatened” under Endangered Species Act

Ret Talbot 21 Jan 2016

Quantifying the aquarium trade to help it become more sustainable

Ret Talbot 20 Jan 2016

Alarming proof of underreported bushmeat crisis in heart of Amazonia

Chaney Giordano 19 Jan 2016

Scientists try hair traps to track tropical carnivores

Chaney Giordano 12 Jan 2016

‘Aquatic cocaine’: Illegal trade in swim bladders of rare fish puts world’s rarest porpoise at risk of extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Jan 2016

South African ban on domestic rhino horn sales in limbo after court overturns it

Mic Smith 8 Jan 2016

Peru to protect world’s largest-known population of giant Manta Rays

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Jan 2016

Could synthetic rhino horns help save the rhino?

Hina Alam 5 Jan 2016

Jokowi’s plan to free captive birds earns unexpected backlash

Mongabay.com 5 Jan 2016

Facebook posts lead to arrest of two suspected tortoise thieves

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Jan 2016

Applying open-source tracking technology to hunting research in Brazil

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 30 Dec 2015

Creating a commons: sustainable fishing and hunting in the Colombian Amazon

David Barton Bray 23 Dec 2015

U.S. adds lions to endangered species list, makes it harder to import lion trophies

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Dec 2015

Bolivia’s domestic parrot trade supplied by birds seen as “crop pests”

Sean Mowbray 21 Dec 2015

Loss of big animals reduces forests’ carbon-storing capacity

Loren Bell 19 Dec 2015

The week in environmental news – Dec 18, 2015

Brittany Stewart 19 Dec 2015

Bellavista no more: Peru’s infamous wildlife market reduced to rubble

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 17 Dec 2015

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

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 11 Dec 2015

Click to like this: Is Instagram a hub for illegal ape deals?

Christopher Haslett 10 Dec 2015

Organized crime role in Latin American wildlife trade hidden in shadow

Saul Elbein 2 Dec 2015

Tracking imperiled elephants with cutting-edge technology: an interview with Iain Douglas-Hamilton

Caleb O'Brien, Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Dec 2015

‘Catastrophic’ decline: nearly 99% of African grey parrots wiped out in Ghana

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Dec 2015

U.S. a major destination for trafficked Latin American wildlife

Sharon Guynup 25 Nov 2015

Poaching upsurge threatens South America’s iconic vicuña

Rachel Nuwer 24 Nov 2015

Eden Besieged: Amazonia’s Matchless Wildlife Pillaged by Traffickers

William H. Funk 23 Nov 2015

Latin American wildlife trafficking takes to the air

Lindsay Fendt 19 Nov 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

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