Weak controls fuel surge in wildlife trafficking by air across Latin America

Weak controls fuel surge in wildlife trafficking by air across Latin America

Brazilian authorities point to Russian biologist Kyrill Kravchenko as an international wildlife trafficker. They had been monitoring him since 2017, after he was arrested in the Netherlands with rare wildlife from Brazil in his possession. In mid-January this year, as he tried to board a plane to Russia at São Paulo’s international airport, they intercepted […]

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‘Highway of death’: animals pay ultimate price on Brazil’s most dangerous road for wildlife

‘Highway of death’: animals pay ultimate price on Brazil’s most dangerous road for wildlife

The last time Schwartz’s tracking monitor registered his location, he was standing at the edge of the “highway of death”. A massive male giant anteater, he was roaming his habitat in the Brazilian Cerrado – a vast tropical savanna that neighbours the world’s largest tropical wetland, the Pantanal – when he disappeared next to the […]

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