In October, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at California’s Otay Mesa border crossing noticed an odd bulge ...

Wildlife trafficking refers to the illegal trade, poaching, smuggling, or collection of wild animals, plants, or their parts. It spans everything from elephants killed for ivory and pangolins hunted ...

Every year, thousands of shark and ray fins are smuggled across international borders, hidden in plain sight in shipping containers or mislabeled among other cargo. For authorities tasked with ...

Every day, nearly 100 elephants in Africa meet a bloody end at the hands of poachers. The number of African elephants has fallen by 76% since 1980. They aren’t alone: poachers have thinned the once ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, came into force 50 years ago and remains one of the most ...

Strict restrictions will continue to apply to the trade in giraffes, despite a move to exempt certain populations of the African animal.A vote on the issue on Saturday at the World Wildlife Conference ...

As governments gather here for the 20th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP20) to the Convention on International ...

ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) - Anyone can now visit the young Mexican spider monkeys living at the Saint Louis Zoo, but their journey was far from easy. Four young spider monkeys are now happily ...

Angie Elwin works for an international NGO, World Animal Protection, as the Head of Research, and is a Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. Delagnon Assou is a Research ...