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In wildlife traffickers, the internet finds a cancel target everyone agrees on

Caitlin Looby 9 Dec 2021
Seized sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleonora) in East Java, Indonesia.

Indonesia ranks high on legal wildlife trade, but experts warn it masks illegal trade

Basten Gokkon 3 Dec 2021

Wildlife trade hub Vietnam is also hub of impunity for traffickers, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 25 Nov 2021

In Brazil’s wildlife care centers, struggles and successes go unseen

Dimas Marques 25 Nov 2021

Outgunned by militants, rangers fear for chimpanzees in southwest Mali

Lucrèce Aminata Kanté 5 Nov 2021

Sinking hope of justice as exporter of 26-ton shark fin cargo gets token fine

Michelle Carrere 4 Nov 2021

In harm’s way: Our actions put people and wildlife at risk of disease

Sharon Guynup 20 Oct 2021

As seizures of poached giant clams rise, links to ivory trade surface

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Oct 2021

Biosurveillance of markets and legal wildlife trade needed to curb pandemic risk: Experts

Gloria Dickie 14 Oct 2021
A siamang in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In Bali, prominent official faces backlash over illegal pet gibbon

Luh De Suriyani 7 Oct 2021

Tracking white-bellied pangolins in Nigeria, the new global trafficking hub

Gianluca Cerullo 7 Oct 2021

A gendered approach to the illegal wildlife trade could engender an anti-trafficking revolution (commentary)

Lisa Arlbrandt, Nathalie Simomeau, Rob Parry-Jones, Tamara Leger 1 Oct 2021

For Adams Cassinga, fighting wildlife trafficking in DRC is a life mission

Soraya Kishtwari 30 Sep 2021
Hornbill

Malaysian hornbill bust reveals live trafficking trend in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan 29 Sep 2021

Fashions to die for: The fur trade’s role in spreading zoonotic disease

Jenny Gonzales 15 Sep 2021

Nigeria seeks transnational help to disrupt a still-brisk pangolin trade

Ini Ekott 2 Sep 2021

Weak controls fuel surge in wildlife trafficking by air across Latin America

Aldem Bourscheit 18 Aug 2021
Pangolins in a market in West Africa. This image was provided anonymously to Mongabay.

Nigeria seizes scales from 15,000 dead pangolins

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2021

New study finds that minority of animals host majority of zoonotic viruses

Michael Tatarski 5 Aug 2021

Address risky human activities now or face new pandemics, scientists warn

Sharon Guynup 3 Aug 2021

Trafficking for traditional medicine threatens the Philippine porcupine

Keith Anthony Fabro 28 Jul 2021

‘Mismanaged to death’: Mexico opens up sole vaquita habitat to fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jul 2021

Study warns of impacts of unregulated trade in Indonesian porcupines

Basten Gokkon 30 Jun 2021

Philippine forest turtles stand a ‘good chance’ after first wild release

Leilani Chavez 28 Jun 2021
China’s ‘wandering elephants’. Credit: Yunnan Forest Fire Brigade via AP.

China’s efforts to accommodate ‘wandering elephants’ is overshadowed by its conflict with elephants elsewhere (commentary)

William F. Laurance 21 Jun 2021

In fight against wildlife trafficking, Brazil police turn to nuclear science

Dimas Marques 21 Jun 2021
Philippine tarsier

Researchers look to locals to fill knowledge gap on Philippine tarsier

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jun 2021

Tanzania’s “Ivory Queen” denied release after appeal

Lucy Taylor 17 Jun 2021
Elephants, Tanzania. Image by Consuelo Puchades via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND-2.0)

Poaching declines in Tanzania following prosecution of ivory trafficking ringleaders

Lucy Taylor 17 Jun 2021

Chinese special economic zones hotspots for wildlife trafficking, surveys say

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 11 Jun 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

‘Conservation litigation’ tries to put a true price on wildlife crime

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2021

Unregulated by U.S. at home, Facebook boosts wildlife trafficking abroad

Ian Morse 8 Jun 2021

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