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Legal loopholes and weak enforcement leave India’s exotic pet trade hard to police

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2026
Sunda pangolin

Pangolin scale lawsuit in Indonesia could shake up how wildlife traffickers pay

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026

Countries take first step toward global crackdown on environmental crime

Spoorthy Raman 27 Oct 2026

Baby orangutans in India expose illegal wildlife trade as experts question a billionaire’s zoo

Associated Press 27 Oct 2026
A male great hornbill approaches the nest in which its mate stays with the eggs or chicks.

Bangladesh’s hornbills face hunting risk during breeding season

Sifayet Ullah 26 Oct 2026

Death of iconic elephant in Sri Lanka pushes authorities to fast-track protection efforts

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 23 Oct 2026

Rare Indonesian maleo birds face new threat from international exotic pet trade

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2026
Nigeria's Parks chief, Ibrahim Musa Goni. Photo, African Nature Investors Foundation.

Nigeria’s parks chief stresses conservation gains amid struggle to protect wildlife

David Akana 20 Oct 2026
Banner image: A worker pruning fruit trees in South Africa in 2007. Image by Trevor Samson / World Bank via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Farmworkers’ health matters: South Africa looks to alternatives for chemical pesticides

Anna Weekes 19 Oct 2026
Endemic to Colombia, Lehmann’s poison frog (Oophaga lehmanni) is a critically endangered species threatened by the pet trade.

Legal gaps allow rampant pet trade, poaching reptiles and amphibians towards extinction

Spoorthy Raman 16 Oct 2026
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodia was told to clean up its monkey trade. Regulators say it still hasn’t

Gerald Flynn 15 Oct 2026
African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Luangwa Valley, Zambia. Image by GRID-Arendal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Thailand seizes ivory shipment from Zambia, to launch DNA investigation

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Oct 2026

Chinese social media used to promote illegal wildlife trade in Laos

Mongabay.com 14 Oct 2026
The Jalisco mud turtle, endemic to the Jalisco and Colima states in Mexico, is a freshwater turtle found in rivers and wetlands.

Solutions to the risks posed by the global pet trade could be enacted quickly

Mike DiGirolamo 13 Oct 2026

Indonesia returns 20 green sea turtles to the ocean after Bali smuggling raid

Associated Press 13 Oct 2026

Crackdown reveals ‘industrial-scale’ wildlife and timber trafficking across Latin America

Spoorthy Raman 8 Oct 2026

Australia’s new eco police flexes muscles with major wildlife trafficking bust

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2026
Ring-tailed lemurs in a zoo.

Did two of the lemurs stolen in Bangladesh end up in India? Officials are investigating

Sadiqur Rahman 8 Oct 2026

Africa’s monitored wildlife populations declined 80% since 1970, new report says

David Akana 7 Oct 2026

Sabine Schoppe who built a refuge for Palawan’s forest turtles has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Oct 2026
A shopper walks through Chatuchak Market carrying her pet raccoon.

More Latin American species are surfacing at a Bangkok wildlife market

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2026
Sumatran tiger

Weak prosecution leaves Southeast Asia’s tigers vulnerable to trafficking: Report

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2026
A maleo

Wildlife traffickers are now targeting Indonesia’s critically endangered maleo birds

Spoorthy Raman 2 Oct 2026
Two Spix’s macaws

Vantara in talks with Brazil on ‘strategic cooperation’ on threatened species, FOIA documents reveal

Fernanda Wenzel, Spoorthy Raman 1 Oct 2026
Anant Ambani with elephants

NGOs call on Vantara to end all wild animal imports permanently

Spoorthy Raman 25 Sep 2026
Environmental agents use satellite imagery analyses and on-site inspections to identify the flow of illegal wood, such as this seizure from the Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Territory, using timber credits. Image by IBAMA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

To tackle environmental crime, track profits through the whole supply chain (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Ilona Szabó de Carvalho 25 Sep 2026
In this operation, enforcement officials recovered 28 native reptiles, including shingleback lizards (pictured here), spiny-tailed skinks and lace monitors. Image courtesy of the National Environmental Protection Agency.

Reptiles, gold and money: How Australia is cracking down on wildlife trafficking

Johan Augustin 23 Sep 2026

World Rhino Day: What does it take to save a species?

Mongabay 22 Sep 2026
Beginning in the mid-2000s, poachers targeted elephants for their tusks, which were worth hefty sums on the black market. In some countries, including Zambia, governments and conservationists are trying to find new ways to combat poaching — like understanding motivations and trying to provide alternative, legal employment.

‘How did you come to be here?’ Study digs into origins of Zambian wildlife crime

Alex Megerle 19 Sep 2026
African dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis).

World’s smallest crocodile in high demand for bushmeat trade in Nigeria

Amir Sadiq 17 Sep 2026

Exotic pet trade poses rising zoonotic disease risks in India

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2026

‘Big Cats’ highlights the remarkable power of photojournalism

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Sep 2026

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