In a significant move towards wildlife conservation, the Pujenvong council, under Kiphire district in Nagaland, has declared a complete and immediate ban on the hunting, consumption, and trade of ...

Study suggests that appetite for bushmeat – rather than black market for scales to use in traditional Chinese medicine – may be driving West Africa’s illegal hunting of one of the world’s most ...

Overexploitation is a major factor in the decline of many species. Humans exploit at least a third of vertebrate animals to provide food, products, or medicines. A scaly mammal called the pangolin is ...

African pangolins are heavily hunted to meet the international demand for scales as well as for their meat in the local bushmeat trade. But how much each contributes to the hunting of these ...

In a significant community-led conservation move, the Pujenvong council in Nagaland’s Kiphire district has imposed a ...

The country has been known as a hub for the trade in illegal wildlife. But it has been stepping up enforcement as concerns grow about the depletion of certain species and the growing role of ...

A recent high-profile legal case in Malaysia took an unexpected turn, highlighting the complexities of securing convictions in complex transnational wildlife cases. On Friday 22 November 2024, a ...

All eight known pangolin species remain at high risk of extinction due to over-exploitation and loss of habitat, conservationists warned Wednesday, warning knowledge gaps were hampering protection ...

While I did know a little about the animals prior to the Global Explorers Summit in Ottawa, I’d never really thought about how they tasted or that their numbers are in serious decline. Watching a talk ...