By Keith Anthony Fabro Authorities in Indonesia have made yet another major seizure of smuggled songbirds, highlighting the ...

Often dismissed as pests, rats have long been misunderstood. But the African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus), the ...

A global convention to control wildlife trade across 184 countries has encouraged conservation action but hasn’t entirely ...

Danny Hewitt, Director of National Operations Border Force, says international wildlife crime is serious organised crime. He ...

From the glacial fjords of Chilean Patagonia to the beaches and mountains of Baja California, Hispanic America, representing ...

Balancing bans While wildlife trade bans can play an important step, their ability to address overexploitation on their own is limited. To conserve species, we need complementary strategies that ...

When people think of wildlife trade, they often picture smugglers sneaking in rare and endangered species from far-off countries. Yet most wildlife trade is actually legal, and the United States is ...

This week, the world's governments are meeting in Geneva for the 78th meeting of the Standing Committee of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

While the Convention has drawn attention to overexploitation, it is not deterring widespread illegal activities in wildlife trade systems in many parts of the world. Evidence indicates that in ...