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Survival and economics complicate the DRC’s bushmeat and wild animal trade

John Cannon and Didier Makal 30 May 2023

Landmark Nepal court ruling ends impunity for wealthy wildlife collectors

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 May 2023
Camera-trap image of a leopard.

Study: Snares claim another local extinction as Cambodia loses its leopards

Sean Mowbray 30 May 2023

Trapping holds back speed of bird recovery in a Sumatran forest, study shows

Basten Gokkon 11 May 2023
A clouded leopard.

Snares don’t discriminate: A problem for wild cats, both big and small

Sean Mowbray 5 May 2023
Tulshi Laxmi Suwal.

Nepali pangolin conservationist Tulshi Suwal among winners of Whitley Awards

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Apr 2023

Maps of sharks’ journeys show marine protected areas alone won’t save them

Michelle Carrere 5 Apr 2023

Wildlife trafficking gradually returns after pandemic lull, mostly by sea

Liz Kimbrough 4 Apr 2023
A golden blue-legged baboon spider.

Study: Online trade in arachnids threatens some species with extinction

Ryan Truscott 1 Mar 2023

The illegal jaguar trade is thriving online. Why aren’t governments stopping it?

Maxwell Radwin 2 Feb 2023
Tulshi Laxmi Suwal.

‘Sustainable livelihoods go a long way’: Q&A with pangolin expert Tulshi Suwal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Jan 2023
A tokay gecko.

Rumors and misconceptions threaten tokay geckos in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 10 Jan 2023

Mexico dismantles illegal fishing cartels killing off rare vaquita porpoise

Maxwell Radwin 5 Jan 2023

Fighting wildlife trafficking in Peru: Q&A with prosecutor Alberto Caraza

Maxwell Radwin 26 Dec 2022

Landmark bill will ban the shark fin trade in the US

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Dec 2022
Two western hoolock gibbons.

Trafficking and habitat loss spell doom for Bangladesh’s western hoolock gibbons

Rafiqul Islam 14 Dec 2022
A Philippine pangolin hangs on to a branch.

For Philippine pangolins, tourism’s return could spell trouble

Keith Anthony Fabro 12 Dec 2022

Rare, critically endangered gecko making dramatic recovery in Caribbean

Maxwell Radwin 2 Dec 2022

‘It was a shark operation’: Q&A with Indonesian crew abused on Chinese shark-finning boat

Philip Jacobson and Basten Gokkon 2 Dec 2022
A tiger in the Sundarbans.

Forest management tool could help rein in rampant wildlife trade in Bangladesh

Mahadi Al Hasnat 28 Nov 2022

New protections for sharks, songbirds, frogs and more at CITES trade summit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Nov 2022
Wader chick

Probe finds Vietnam faltering in bid to curb wildlife trade, animal suffering

Carolyn Cowan 23 Nov 2022

Will shipping noise nudge Africa’s only penguin toward extinction?

Leonie Joubert 21 Nov 2022
Long-tailed macaques roam free across the Angkor Wat temple complex

Alleged macaque-smuggling ring exposed as U.S. indicts Cambodian officials

Gerald Flynn 18 Nov 2022
An African penguin standing sleepily in a patch of green. Image by Alberto Ziveri via Flickr (BY-SA 2.0)

Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2022

Should more wildlife trade be legal and regulated? It’s complicated, say scientists

James Fair 11 Nov 2022

How Mitsubishi vacuumed up tuna from a rogue Chinese fishing fleet

Annelise Giseburt 10 Nov 2022

‘There are solutions to these abuses’: Q&A with Steve Trent on how China can rein in illegal fishing

Philip Jacobson 3 Nov 2022
A deckhand on the Long Xing 626 in DOF’s Atlantic fleet displays what experts who reviewed the image identified as a blue shark (Prionace glauca) in this photo posted to Facebook. The animal on the ground is a leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea).

Exclusive: Shark finning rampant across Chinese tuna firm’s fleet

Philip Jacobson and Basten Gokkon 1 Nov 2022
A feral Moluccan cockatoo.

Survey finds thriving online market for Indonesian birds in Philippines

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 26 Oct 2022
Jaguar skin for sale at the Belen market

A fast-growing pipeline: The Amazon-to-Southeast Asia wildlife trade

Sharon Guynup 18 Oct 2022
Narwhal image by Газпром нефть via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The mystery of narwhal behavior, solved by chaos theory

Liz Kimbrough 23 Sep 2022

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