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Why are people buying pet ants?

What drives the trafficking of gibbons? Conservationists shed light on demand

Three Thai nationals suspected of smuggling Galápagos iguanas arrested in Ecuador

Texas man convicted of buying eagle parts from a wildlife trafficking ring

More than a million live birds imported to Asia in 15 years, report finds

Endangered Persian leopards persist across borders, despite hunters and landmines

Honduran authorities seize jaguar kept as pet, put spotlight on local trafficking

Nigeria aims for stronger wildlife protections with sweeping new law

Brazil police seize devices from bird expert in trafficking probe linked to Vantara zoo

52 dead sloths: Inside Sloth World

Facebook is a hub for illegal wildlife trade, and that’s by design, report says

As wildlife trade expands, so do pathways for disease spillover to humans

Indonesia busts wildlife trafficking ring targeting Komodo dragons

Nigeria arrests suspected pangolin trafficking kingpin on the run

Investigators eye organized crime links in 3-ton pangolin scale haul at Jakarta port

After 110-kilo ivory bust, familiar questions over Kenya’s follow-through

Chinese court cases reveal most trafficked rhino horns come from Southern Africa

To tackle trafficking in gibbons, experts probe what drives demand

Colombia announces plan to cull Pablo Escobar’s feral hippos

Nearly a million birds shipped from Africa to Asia in 15 years; canaries top the list

Asia now hub of growing illegal wildlife trade across 100+ countries, study shows

Zambia seizes half-ton of ivory in major illegal wildlife crime operation

Proboscis monkey found in Thailand adds to evidence of cross-border illegal trade

Jakarta port authorities seize 3 tons of pangolin scales in Cambodia-bound container

Eight arrested as Europe cracks down on lucrative eel smuggling syndicates

Facebook shuts Indonesia groups after Mongabay and Bellingcat report illegal wildlife trade

By protecting tigers ‘we save so much more,’ says Debbie Banks

Indonesia’s orangutan trafficking cases reveal need for a change in approach (commentary)

The dark side of smiling sloths

U.S.’ hunger for Halloween trinkets is killing Vietnam’s painted woolly bats

Satellite images identify vulture breeding colonies by their droppings

Justin Claude Rakotoarisoa, a guardian of Madagascar’s amphibians, has died, aged 45

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