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Black-headed parrots (Lorius lory) are illegally traded freely in the market around the PT IMIP Morowali Nickel Smelter Industry, Central Sulawesi. Photo: Riza Salman/Mongabay Indonesia.

In eastern Indonesia, forest bird trade flies quietly under social media radar

Riza Salman 11 Jun 2024
A Javan rhino spotted on camera trap in Ujung Kulon National Park.

Javan rhino poacher gets 12 years in record sentence for wildlife crime in Indonesia

Jeremy Hance 7 Jun 2024
A tiger in the mangroves.

Media must help reduce conflict between tigers and people in the Sundarbans (commentary)

Mafizul Islam 6 Jun 2024

Poachers claim to have killed one-third of all Javan rhinos, Indonesian police say

Jeremy Hance 31 May 2024
Sharks in the coral reefs of Jardines de la Reina, Cuba.

Undercover in a shark fin trafficking ring: Interview with wildlife crime fighter Andrea Crosta

Philip Jacobson 16 May 2024
A pangolin fitted with a radio transmitter prior to re-release.

On foot and by drone, radio tracking helps rehabilitate pangolins in Vietnam

Claudia Geib 10 May 2024

CITES halts Ecuador’s shark trade; trafficking persists amid lack of transparency

Carlos Chunga 6 May 2024
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodian official acquitted in trial that exposed monkey-laundering scheme

Gerald Flynn 29 Mar 2024
turtles Peru

In Peru, conservationists and authorities struggle to get turtle eggs off the menu

Ryan Biller 18 Mar 2024

Rehabilitation of Guatemalan fauna highlights opacity of illegal wildlife trade

Sandra Cuffe 7 Mar 2024
A juvenile northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) held in a cage outside a gas station in Cambodia. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 7 Mar 2024
A chattering lory (Lorius garrulus).

Maluku farmer turns guardian of eastern Indonesia’s threatened parrots

Mahmud Ichi 27 Feb 2024

Concern for Mexico’s vaquita as totoaba swim bladder trafficking surges online

Maxwell Radwin 9 Feb 2024
A white-backed vulture. showing brown wings and lighter breast, dark grey face and beak against green foliage in Mole National Park, Ghana. Image courtesy of Nico Arcilla.

Endangered vulture species nesting in Ghana is rare good news about raptors

Sean Mowbray 2 Feb 2024

Cambodia sea turtle nests spark hope amid coastal development & species decline

Gerald Flynn 1 Feb 2024

Nepal’s ‘low-altitude’ snow leopard would face big hurdles in return to wild

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jan 2024
Spix’s macaw

EU’s legal loophole feeds gray market for world’s rarest parrot

Brendan Borrell 17 Jan 2024
Confiscated illegal wildlife parts.

Elite appetite turns Bangladesh from source to consumer of tiger parts

Mahadi Al Hasnat 9 Jan 2024
A close shot of a black mangabey monkey (Lophocebus.aterrimus) in 3/4 profile, showing off its grey whiskers and funky mohawk crest. Image by Nathan Rupert via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Togo monkey seizure turns spotlight on illicit wildlife trafficking from DR Congo

Didier Makal 8 Jan 2024
A whale shark.

Still on the menu: Shark fin trade in U.S. persists despite ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Dec 2023
Pangolin pup. Courtesy of the Pangolin Conservation Fund.

Biden can tip the (pangolin) scales on China’s illegal wildlife trade (commentary)

Araluen “Azza” Schunmann 3 Dec 2023
Sun bear

Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2023

Ken Burns discusses heartbreak & hope of ‘The American Buffalo,’ his new documentary

Liz Kimbrough 3 Oct 2023
A deer catptured for bushmeat in the DRC.

Study: Wild meat trade from Africa into Belgium a health and conservation risk

Sean Mowbray 12 Sep 2023
A Luzon tarictic hornbill.

Online trade in Philippine hornbills threatens birds and forests

Jhesset O. Enano 29 Aug 2023
A scaly-breasted munia in Natore, Bangladesh.

A thriving online market for wild birds emerges in Bangladesh

Maksuda Aziz 29 Aug 2023
A red-breasted parakeet.

When it rains, it pours: Bangladesh wildlife trade booms during monsoon

Mahadi Al Hasnat 21 Aug 2023
A rescued falcon, likely a peregrine

Falcon trafficking soars in Middle East, fueled by conflict and poverty

Lyse Mauvais 10 Aug 2023

Researchers detect two of Suriname’s most powerful jaguar trafficking networks

Astrid Arellano 7 Aug 2023

Oil palms may be magnet for macaques, boars, at expense of other biodiversity

Carolyn Cowan 7 Aug 2023

Brazil claims record shark fin bust: Nearly 29 tons from 10,000 sharks seized

Karla Mendes 29 Jun 2023
Loris

When “cute” is cruel: Social media videos stoke loris pet trade, study says

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jun 2023

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