Poaching and the illicit trafficking of wildlife products were raised on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly for the first time Monday during discussions on strengthening national and ...

Faced with an unprecedented surge in wildlife crime, the UN today adopted a historic resolution committing all countries to ramp up their collective efforts to end the global poaching crisis and ...

Human-wildlife conflict has driven the decline of once-abundant species and is pushing others to the brink of extinction.

The GDELT Project is a vast open-access tool that scours and live translates news media in 65 languages to quantify, describe and map broad societal trends worldwide. GDELT will harness data from even ...

For two years, Malaysian conservationists tracked a tiger named "Bulan" as she raised four cubs. Then a fatal traffic accident made her another statistic in the country's dwindling population. When ...

Perpetrators of wildlife crime are going unpunished, despite overwhelming public support for action against them, a charity has warned. A report from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) ...

See how South Africa’s wildlife crime economy is thriving, exploiting legal loopholes, weak enforcement and global demand for ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Since his breakthrough book, The Lizard King, and his National Geographic feature on “The Kingpin”, Bryan Christy has established himself as one of ...

The global community has acknowledged the urgent demand for a robust legal and institutional structure to address wildlife crime. As a result, various treaties, agreements, and organisations have been ...

Trading Years for Wildlife lifts the lid on why 45 offenders who are incarcerated in six different Namibian Correctional Service facilities, turned towards the illegal wildlife trade. The ...