Articles tagged "poaching"

It's a small victory for elephants even as poaching continues to threaten their thinning herds.

Cheers to Nepal's dedicated citizens who have given its rare species hope.

Mars touchdown, Bjork, gauge symmetry, Occupy reborn. 2012 really happened.

The search giant is spending $5 million to send anti-poaching drones over Africa and Asia.

Crime syndicates are in the process of driving rhinos, elephants, and tigers into extinction. Can the latest anti-poacher tech save their hides?

This year, the poaching epidemic has reached crisis levels, with 570 animals killed in South Africa so far.

More than a year ago, the environmental affairs department of South Africa "announced plans for a pact":http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-28-sa-vietnam-team-up-to-thwart-rhino-poachers with the government of Vietnam to try to curb rhino poaching. What'…

After banning tourists from tiger reserves in July, India's Supreme Court has now reversed course, once again allowing India's lucrative tiger tourism business back into preserves. The tourism industry and conservationists are both hailing the cancel…

Much of the trade in illegal animal parts is due to false beliefs that rhino horn or tiger penises cure ailments, but here's another curious facet: in Southern Africa, leopard skins are in increasingly high demand thanks to the growth of a local reli…

No one should be surprised that the world’s species most threatened by poaching have seen huge population declines in the last century. Elephants, for example, have been absolutely clobbered, with only 300,000 African elephants now left after numberi…

Last time we heard about wildlife smuggling, it was the curious case of a Chinese man attacked by a piranha, despite piranhas not being native to China. It served to highlight that Asia is the world’s driver and epicenter of wildlife smuggling, which…

Rates of elephant poaching and the ivory trade have reached their highest pitch in a decade.