Animal campaigners have raised the alarm after a number of crocodiles were found dead with their heads chopped off. Rangers fear the decapitations are becoming a growing problem in the Australian state of Queensland after six of the animals were found with gunshot wounds over the past two months. Some of the carcasses were found […]
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If South Africa Ends Lion Breeding, What to Do with Captive Cats?
On June 23 security guards at Johannesburg’s international airport stopped a 34-year-old man en route to Vietnam. Suspicious of his luggage, they opened his suitcases and found them filled with bones — some wrapped in yellow tape, others unwrapped and covered in dried blood and traces of flesh. With the help of specialists, officials identified […]
New UK Law Protects Endangered Animals From Illegal Ivory Trade
The UK has solidified its commitment to wildlife conservation, extending the protection coverage of the Ivory Act of 2018 to include additional endangered species. This monumental move signals a vital step forward in the fight against illegal ivory trading, a grave issue threatening the survival of numerous species across the globe. Previously, the Ivory Act […]
Poaching Gang Busted with Tiger Skins and Skeletons
A notorious tiger poaching gang was busted in India recently with a 10-foot-long tiger skin, one tiger skeleton, and one leopard skeleton. In a huge anti-poaching operation across India, the Tamil Nadu Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and Wildlife SOS intercepted six members of the big cat poaching community. They had traveled from Delhi to […]
Trafficked: Kidnapped chimps, jailed rhino horn traffickers, and seized donkey parts
LUBUMBASHI Democratic Republic of Congo Three chimpanzees have been kidnapped and are being held for ransom after intruders broke into a primate sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Franck Chantereau, founder of the J.A.C.K. Primate Rehabilitation Centre, says the kidnappers got into the 7-hectare (17-acre) facility in the southern city of Lubumbashi at around 3 […]
In Sri Lankan waters, endangered but unprotected rays encounter a killing field
COLOMBO — When fishermen in southern Sri Lanka recently caught a giant oceanic manta ray, they needed a backhoe to haul it out of the water once they reached land. Weighing 800 kilograms, or nearly 1,800 pounds, the catch drew much local attention. It sold for 170,000 rupees, or about $470, and soon this endangered […]
The Years of the Tiger: the demand for tigers and the price they pay
On the 1st of February 2022, the Year of the Tiger starts. The Chinese zodiac is an increasingly popular pseudoscientific classification scheme with followers in Asian countries, like China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nepal, Bhutan, and Thailand. Hundreds of millions of primarily Asian people observe the start of the Year of the Tiger, but […]
Siberian tigers are being hunted at night for their body parts
The tiger was already dead when they spotted it, the hunters said—a furry, ochre mound against the snowy backdrop of Primorye, a sprawling region eight time zones from Moscow, in Russia’s Far East. The seven men took a picture with the massive Amur tiger, their arms casually slung around each other’s shoulders, the straps from […]