Japan's lax controls over its domestic stock of ivory are encouraging illegal exports to other countries and undermining efforts to end trafficking in elephant tusks, a report said Wednesday.
Ecology
Dec 20, 2017
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Talk about a cute critter: a hippo small enough to fit in a pet cage.
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2017
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Seahorses, traded by the millions annually as an ingredient in traditional medicine in parts of Asia, are getting a reprieve from Thailand, the world's biggest exporter of the animal.
Ecology
Sep 29, 2016
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South Africa does not rule out a future call for regulated international trade in rhino horn trade, despite its decision not to push for legalisation at an upcoming CITES conference, a cabinet minister said Sunday.
Ecology
May 8, 2016
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Researchers at the University of Alicante have been monitoring the on-campus hedgehog population and found some unusual behaviours.
Evolution
Feb 26, 2016
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A wildlife protection agency has demanded less talk and more action against the poaching of elephants and other animals, saying it was time for the same "frontline" tactics used against human traffickers and drug gangs.
Ecology
Jun 23, 2014
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(AP)—More than 20,000 elephants were poached last year in Africa where large seizures of smuggled ivory eclipsed those in Asia for the first time, international wildlife regulators said Friday.
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2014
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Togo police have seized about 1.7 tonnes of ivory loaded in a container in the port of Lome, the country's minister of environment and forest resources said on Tuesday.
Ecology
Jan 28, 2014
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A DNA method able of identifying exact species of primate 'bushmeat' that has been cooked for sale has been developed in a bid to cut illegal trading and better identify and protect those species most at risk.
Ecology
Aug 15, 2013
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Czech authorities said Tuesday they had cracked an international gang smuggling horns of rare white rhinoceroses from South Africa to Asia, where they are prized in traditional medicine.
Ecology
Jul 23, 2013
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