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Illegal wildlife trade

July 2024

  • A young black woman with a pangolin sitting on her shoulder smiles at the camera

    The age of extinction
    ‘They are so handsome’: the unusual day in the life of a pangolin carer

  • Raptor expert George Smith ringing peregrine chicks on a cliff ledge while roped to a tree above

    The age of extinction
    ‘I’ve known some of these peregrines for 15 years’: protecting Scotland’s raptors – in pictures

May 2024

  • Two Colombian police officers taking away cages of small birds

    The age of extinction
    Global wildlife crime causing ‘untold harm’, UN report finds

    More than 4,000 species are targeted by traffickers, with illegal trade active in 80% of countries, says Office on Drugs and Crime

March 2024

  • One of the Nile crocodiles seized by the Seprona division of the Guardia Civil

    Nile crocodiles and Burmese python among rare species seized in Spain

  • A red panda in a basket

    Red panda found in luggage of smuggling suspects at Thailand airport

January 2024

  • Compo tech for SACC

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution

    With the region’s countries among the most vulnerable to the climate crisis, digital entrepreneurs have been inspired to find innovative ways to create real environmental change
  • The two women holding sophisticated looking rifles against the backdrop of the beautiful national park

    ‘I never dreamed I would carry a gun’: the Zambian women keeping poachers at bay

    Protecting threatened species in the Lower Zambezi national park was traditionally a man’s role. Now the country’s first all-female conservation squad is bringing a new perspective to the fight
  • Jon and Cimung screaming [Release of ] couple Jon and Cimung, male and female Siamang gibbons, Siamang Rehabilitation Centre in south Sumatra, Indonesia.

    The age of extinction
    Hope for rare singing gibbons as pair are released into the wild

    Two Siamang gibbons rescued from the illegal pet trade have been rehabilitated in a new Indonesian centre

December 2023

  • Mitchell’s water monitor

    Governments accused of not doing enough as 17 species added to Australia’s threatened wildlife list

    Conservationists call for more action after reptiles, fish and birds added to list, including 10 species deemed critically endangered
  • A monkey protecting his blind cage mate at a macaque breeding facility.

    The age of extinction
    $20,000 monkeys: inside the booming illicit trade for lab animals

    A lucrative underground trade risks undermining research, creating new pandemics and pushing a recently abundant species to the brink
  • A black and white image of a large anteater-like animal moving through trees

    The age of extinction
    Long thought to be extinct in Kenya, giant pangolins are now being helped back from the brink

    In 2018, sightings of these solitary, nocturnal animals were recorded in Kenya for the first time in half a century. Now conservationists are working with farmers to create space for them on the land

September 2023

  • A pile of caimans in a concrete pit

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Poached, caged, shipped in socks: on patrol with the police battling Colombia’s illegal wildlife trade

    For decades the plundering of protected species went unchallenged, but new efforts are being made to halt traffickers across Latin America and the Caribbean

July 2023

  • A 3D-modeled replica of the teeth of the clouded leopard.

    The age of extinction
    Can 3D-printed tiger teeth help save our rarest animals from extinction?

    A startup making replicas is giving Indigenous people in India an alternative to using wild animal parts in traditional headgear

May 2023

  • Composite for new species in Mekong region

    Almost 400 species discovered in Greater Mekong region – in pictures

  • A 1,370-year-old cycad tree pictured in 2020 at the Qingxiu Mountain Cycad Garden in Nanning city, Guangxi province, China.

    Plantwatch
    Cycads: the primeval plants getting rarer – and harder to protect

  • A racoon walks in an almost deserted Central Park, New York, April 2020.

    Simon Schama on the broken relationship between humans and nature: ‘The joke’s on us. Things are amiss’

  • Elvers seized during a police operation against the illegal trafficking of baby eels

    Police in Spain and France break up international eel smuggling gang

November 2022

  • A rare saltwater hippo on the island of Orango in the Bijagos archipelago of Guinea Bissau

    The age of extinction
    Ten African countries accuse EU of failing to protect hippos

    Brussels’ plan to oppose a ban on trade in hippopotamus products puts species at risk, says letter signed by states, including Mali, Niger and Senegal

September 2022

  • Hawksbill sea turtle swimming over a coral reef

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    More than 1.1m sea turtles illegally killed over past 30 years, study finds

    Demand for luxury goods is driving global trade in hawksbill and green turtles, researchers say, adding to calls for more protection

August 2022

  • Stanislavas Huzhiavichus, who worked for almost a year for a trafficking ring.

    Bird smuggler turned gamekeeper: the man shining a light on illegal wildlife trade

    Stanislavas Huzhiavichus spent four months in jail for smuggling birds. Now he lifts the lid on the murky, wildly profitable business
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