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The week in environmental news – March 04, 2016

Facebook emerging as a ‘thriving’ wildlife trade marketplace

‘Status symbols’: Japan emerging as major hub for illegal trade in slow lorises due to their popularity as pets

The week in environmental news – Feb 26, 2016

It’s World Pangolin Day again. What can you do to help?

After Cecil: lion perturbation, conservation, and value to a global society

Toxic beetles and poisonous plants: Study reveals how southern Africa’s ‘bushmen’ make deadly poison arrows

‘Where Have All the Animals Gone?’ – a journey through Africa and Asia

Elephant poachers kill British helicopter pilot, 5 suspects arrested

Myanmar emerging as a major hub for smuggling pangolins to China

Over-hunting’s surprising connection to global warming

Sri Lanka crushes and destroys over 350 ivory tusks

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

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

Quantifying the aquarium trade to help it become more sustainable

Alarming proof of underreported bushmeat crisis in heart of Amazonia

Scientists try hair traps to track tropical carnivores

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

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

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

Could synthetic rhino horns help save the rhino?

Jokowi’s plan to free captive birds earns unexpected backlash

Facebook posts lead to arrest of two suspected tortoise thieves

Applying open-source tracking technology to hunting research in Brazil

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

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

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

Loss of big animals reduces forests’ carbon-storing capacity

The week in environmental news – Dec 18, 2015

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

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

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