For years, the plight of the pangolin has been a niche concern, mostly worrying conservationists. But the COVID-19 pandemic has pulled pangolins into the spotlight.
COVID-19 brings new scrutiny to illegal wildlife trafficking
Jeffrey Gettleman, East Africa Bureau Chief for The New York Times, wrote that the poaching of elephants for the illegal ivory trade has gotten out of control in Central Africa, and has become increasingly militarized.
The Living on Earth Almanac
This week, facts about… CITES , the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the largest wildlife treaty in the world, enjoying its twenty-fifth anniversary this month.
Endangered Elephants
In 1989, an international ban on selling ivory was heralded as a victory for elephant conservation. But nearly two decades later, the ivory trading industry remains in tact. In 2002, authorities confiscated six and a half tons of ivory in the largest seiz
Poaching Pictures
A photographer’s undercover snapshots reveal a graphic and thriving market in Asia’s exotic poaching trade.
