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A scaly pangolin with small, brown eyes and a pointy nose forages for food near some greenery.
COVID-19
Pangolin smuggling: The next coronavirus time bomb?
Rhinos Kruger South Africa
Business, Economics and Jobs
Rhino poaching in South Africa declines during coronavirus lockdown
Wuhan outdoor market
Health & Medicine
COVID-19 brings new scrutiny to illegal wildlife trafficking
Silver-backed chevrotain caught on camera
Environment
Rare mouse-deer spotted in Vietnam for the first time in 30 years
an anti-poacher billboard
Economics
A rhino warrior experiments with peace
elephants
Global Politics
Report: African wildlife threatened by militia poaching
Elephant walk during sunset in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.
Environment
Elephants learn to hide by day, forage at night, to evade poachers
African elephant
Environment
Nearly wiped out by poaching, 520 elephants relocated to new, safer home in Malawi
White Rhino
Technology
Anti-poaching efforts may get a boost from a DNA database for rhino horn
Wildlife cops
Justice
Underfunded wildlife enforcement in the Pacific Northwest fails to keep up with poachers
Ranger with gorillas
Business
The fight is on to end poaching in Africa’s Virunga National Park
Twin arches
Business
Kenya’s Mombasa port is the highway through which Africa’s poached animal products pass
Poacher turned ranger Mutinda Ndivo
Business
Anti-poaching efforts in Kenya focus on saving animals — and people too
Ivory on Display at Ivory Crush in Times Square
Business
Despite big efforts, the US is still a major consumer of illegal elephant ivory
Ugandan authorities counting confiscated ivory
Conflict
Corruption worsens an already devastating illegal wildlife trade in Uganda
Uganda Wildlife Authority
Poaching and Terrorism: The Race to Protect Wildlife and National Security
Full Episode
Rhino Rescue staff collect DNA samples from an animal during a procedure.
Environment
Poisoning rhino horns doesn’t hurt the rhinos, but it may keep poachers away
More than 1,000 rhinos were killed in South Africa last year. It's a 50% increase from the year before, proof of the escalating poaching crisis. Most of the rhinos were killed in Kruger National Park, a popular tourist destination.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Even evacuating South Africa’s rhinos may not save them from poachers
Seized elephant tusks
Environment
One group hopes to end poaching, WikiLeaks-style
African elephant
Business, Economics and Jobs
The fight to save the elephants has new urgency
Environment
A reporter finds China’s tiger farms likely contribute to poaching — rather than alleviating it
Environment
A reporter finds China’s tiger farms likely contribute to poaching — rather than alleviating it
Trainers work with anti-poaching dogs at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.
Environment
Dogs get the call to protect rhinos in Kenya from poachers
Trainers work with anti-poaching dogs at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.
Environment
Dogs get the call to protect rhinos in Kenya from poachers
tusks
Environment
Cheap drones give elephant protectors a new tool against poaching
Environment
When you buy ivory, you may be funding al-Shabab terrorists
Corporal Patricia Mututu (left), a 30-year Kenya Wildlife Service veteran, and Ranger Mildred Oduor on patrol in Nairobi National Park. Hundreds of Kenya Wildlife Service rangers have been shot by poachers in the last three years; 13 have been killed.
Environment
Rangers in Kenya are outgunned in the new poaching arms race
Global Politics
In Kenya, Violent Elephant Poaching Increases at an Alarming Rate
Conflict & Justice
Ivory Poachers in Central Africa are Hunting Elephants with Heavy Artillery
Fuzzy Forensics!
SNAKE TRADE: OPERATION ROCKCUT STINGS
Secrets of the Savanna
Poaching Pictures
Ginseng Poaching
Environment
U.N. allows China to import ivory
Environment
Poaching abalone in South Africa