Illegal wildlife trade
Shrinking trees and tuskless elephants: the strange ways species are adapting to humans
As people have shaped the natural world, so wildlife – from mahoganies to magpies – has had to evolve to survive
Patrick Greenfield
06, Jan, 2025 @6:00 AM
Police seize 6,000 illegal wild birds’ eggs as raids net largest haul in UK history
Part of an international initiative to combat organised wildlife crime, similar seizures in Australia and Norway have recovered more than 50,000 eggs
Phoebe Weston
30, Dec, 2024 @5:00 AM
‘It shouldn’t be that easy’: inside the illegal wildlife trade booming on social media
Social media sites have become crucial tools for the sale of endangered species and platforms should do more to combat it, say experts
Sam Meadows in São Paulo
09, Dec, 2024 @5:00 AM
Rats trained to sniff out smuggled rhino horn and pangolin scales
African giant pouched rats trained to alert their handlers when they find illegally trafficked wildlife products
Rachel Savage
31, Oct, 2024 @3:09 PM
I’m obsessed with sharks: I used to kill them, now I risk my life to film them
I killed a great white when I was 18 to feed my family in Madagascar. But now I’m documenting the threat to these beautiful creatures from overfishing
Michel Strogoff
23, Sep, 2024 @6:00 AM
‘They are so handsome’: the unusual day in the life of a pangolin carer
At a wildlife centre in Mozambique, trafficked animals are fed, nursed, taken for walks and eventually released back to the wild. Vet Mércia Ângela describes what it’s like to bond with these rare and charismatic mammals
Mércia Ângela, as told to Patrick Greenfield
25, Jul, 2024 @12:00 PM
Global wildlife crime causing ‘untold harm’, UN report finds
More than 4,000 species are targeted by traffickers, with illegal trade active in 80% of countries, says Office on Drugs and Crime
Phoebe Weston
13, May, 2024 @12:23 PM
Nile crocodiles and Burmese python among rare species seized in Spain
Other endangered animals rescued in 2023 included a burrowing parrot, an African spurred tortoise and a blood-eared parakeet
Sam Jones in Madrid
31, Mar, 2024 @12:39 PM
Red panda found in luggage of smuggling suspects at Thailand airport
Bangkok customs officers arrest six after finding 87 animals, including lizards, birds, a monkey and snakes
Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent
07, Mar, 2024 @8:38 AM
Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution
With the region’s countries among the most vulnerable to the climate crisis, digital entrepreneurs have been inspired to find innovative ways to create real environmental change
Lesley Stones in Santiago, Constance Malleret in Rio de Janeiro and Fritz Pinnow in Tegucigalpa
30, Jan, 2024 @2:00 PM
‘I never dreamed I would carry a gun’: the Zambian women keeping poachers at bay
Protecting threatened species in the Lower Zambezi national park was traditionally a man’s role. Now the country’s first all-female conservation squad is bringing a new perspective to the fight
Isabel Choat in Lower Zambezi. Photography by Harry Vlachos for the Guardian
15, Jan, 2024 @9:00 AM
Hope for rare singing gibbons as pair are released into the wild
Two Siamang gibbons rescued from the illegal pet trade have been rehabilitated in a new Indonesian centre
Graeme Green
09, Jan, 2024 @8:00 AM
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