Tag: Wildlife smuggling

One of the world’s leading investigators into the illegal trade in ivory and rhino horn has been killed in Kenya. ...

The number of rhinos killed for their horns by poachers in South Africa dipped slightly in the first half of ...

Malaysian authorities have arrested a Vietnamese man and seized a stash of elephant ivory worth almost $70,000, an official said ...

Vietnamese authorities have seized nearly three tonnes of ivory hidden among boxes of fruit, officials said Sunday, the latest haul ...

A frontline park ranger from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday delivered an emotive testimony to legislators against the ...

Myanmar's wild elephants are being poached in record numbers with at least 20 killed this year due to surging demand ...

China on Thursday rejected allegations that two of its diplomats working in Uganda were involved in the trafficking of ivory ...

An ever-expanding human population and exploding demand for food, water and living space, will place animals at 'unprecedented' extinction risk ...

Nepal destroyed thousands of valuable animal skins and other parts seized from poachers on a giant bonfire Monday in a ...

A Japanese man has been arrested in Indonesia for allegedly trying to smuggle hundreds of reptiles out of the archipelago, ...

Malaysian customs foiled an attempt to smuggle hundreds of the world's most endangered tortoises into the country from Madagascar, a ...

All hell broke loose as the one-horned rhino stepped out of the crate, the powerful male charging elephant-mounted mahouts relocating ...

Poachers have shot dead a one-horned rhinoceros at a national wildlife park in Nepal, officials said Sunday, spotlighting the threat ...

South Africa's highest court Wednesday rejected a bid by the government to keep a ban on domestic trade in rhino ...

Conservationists on Monday captured a rare one-horned rhinoceros in Nepal as part of an attempt to increase the number of ...

The price of ivory has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the last three years, according to research conducted in China ...

A Hong Kong court has convicted two men for illegal possession of ivory chopsticks after radiocarbon dating proved it was ...

Conservationists on Tuesday hailed the discovery of a new breeding population of tigers in Thailand as a "miraculous" victory for ...

Authorities in Vietnam have discovered five frozen tigers, all with their organs removed, hidden in a freezer. Official reports today ...

Five frozen tigers have been discovered in a Vietnamese man's freezer with their organs removed, according to official reports Tuesday, ...