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Tech helps Vietnam rangers turn the tide on poaching

In Vietnam’s Pu Mat National Park, which borders Laos, an antipoaching unit is integrating high-tech tools with on-the-ground patrols to help turn the tide on illegal wildlife poac...

Zimbabwe gives wildlife rangers greater powers under new law to combat poaching

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To secure protected areas from wildlife trafficking, criminal networks must be dismantled (commentary)

Conservation has historically emphasized protected area management including protecting land, fencing, local enforcement and rangers’ patrols within parks. And indeed, decades of p...

Namibia: Rangers Fight Off Suspected Poachers in Outjo Area Shootout

[Namibian] Anti-poaching rangers exchanged gunfire with two suspected poachers at a farm in the Outjo district on Saturday morning, leaving one suspect injured.

In pictures: How forensic science is helping tackle wildlife poaching

Advances in forensic science are disrupting the illegal wildlife trade – and are documented in a new photo series The post In pictures: How forensic science is helping tackle wildl...

Cauvery Sanctuary: Dynamites, Guns Give An Edge To Poachers Over Foresters

Besides, forest personnel asked for adequate staff to take on poachers in the Sanctuary and questioned “Hardly 3 are in APCs and how can they take a mighty gang of poachers when en...

Bushmeat poaching threatens South Africa’s safari economy

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Meet India’s Four-Legged Wildlife Detectives

One day in late June, a forest patrol deep in the jungles of Central India came across a distressing sight. Twelve spotted deer and two sambar deer lay dead around a poisoned pond....

Four arrested as Elephant deaths in Kenya’s Amboseli ecosystem rise to 18

Authorities say the investigation is still ongoing and that the preliminary findings must be scientifically verified. Kenya's government has warned that anyone found to have unlawf...

Volunteers play crucial role in Bangladesh’s wildlife crime control efforts

A handful of animal lovers, mostly representing the youth community, spread across Bangladesh, have become crucial arsenals of the Forest Department’s wildlife crime control effort...

Former Poachers Are Protecting One of Nigeria’s Last Rainforests

Sunday Abiodun can often tell an animal is nearby before he sees it — from a broken twig or the way birds suddenly stop singing. For 15 years, he used those instincts to hunt wildl...

South African police arrest two Thai men for allegedly smuggling parrot eggs

Bird eggs intercepted in homemade incubators at Johannesburg airport as officials try to halt wildlife traffickingSouth African police have arrested two Thai nationals in separate...

From seizure to sentence: Weak prosecution leaves tigers vulnerable to trafficking in Southeast Asia: Report

When tiger poachers and traffickers are apprehended in Southeast Asia, they frequently get away without consequences: Fewer than half of arrests and seizures in the cat’s Southeast...

Can big tech stop wildlife crime?

There’s a new, unlikely ally in the fight against illegal wildlife crime: Big tech.  Earlier this year, new commitments from household names including Paypal, Meta, eBay and Etsy w...

Chhattisgarh Forest Dept Seeks CBI Probe Into Poaching Of 3 Tigers Of Indravati National Park

Interstate wildlife trafficking suspected after arrest of 2 Maharashtra cops

Kenyan investigators arrest 4 people linked to 18 Amboseli elephant deaths

At least four suspects have been arrested in connection with the deaths of 18 elephants in the Amboseli ecosystem in southern Kenya, near the border with Tanzania. Preliminary inve...

World Ranger Day: The heroic conservation dogs helping protect South Africa’s wildlife

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Uthmeier says he’ll push to increase criminal penalties for poaching next legislative session

Cambodia targets online wildlife trade on social media, but experts say it’s not enough

Cambodia’s environment ministry has urged the public and social media content creators to stop making or sharing content that encourages the commerce, consumption or capture of wil...

On the front lines of conservation in Sumatra: Rangers safeguard Batutegi forest

TANGGAMUS, Indonesia — For more than a decade and a half, forest ranger Wandi Harmoko has walked the ridges and valleys of Batutegi, a landscape in southern Sumatra. He is one of o...

Gagalkan Penjualan Sisik Trenggiling dan Paruh Rangkong, Kemenhut Tetapkan 1 Tersangka

Perang terhadap perdagangan satwa liar dilindungi terus diperkuat oleh Kementerian Kehutanan (Kemenhut) sebagai bagian dari komitmen menjaga keanekaragaman hayati Indonesia.

From small cats to pangolins: Detection dogs help track elusive species

In the grassy dwarf shrublands of South Africa’s Karoo, Michelle Marie Schroeder is looking for a very specific kind of poo. Black-footed cats spend most of the day hidden in burro...

Three American Hunters Convicted in International Wildlife Poaching Case Near Alaskan National Park

Watch: Serial Poacher with 174 Violations Is Confronted by Game Wardens. Now There Are Warrants Out for His Arrest

Body camera footage shows a Wisconsin man getting busted for illegal hunting, after wardens investigated him for years The post Watch: Serial Poacher with 174 Violations Is Confron...