Written by: Mayank Aggarwal/Mongabay
India and Nepal, which share a border running more than 1,850 kilometers (1,150 miles), are set to sign an agreement strengthening transboundary conservation of species like the Indian rhino, Bengal tiger and Asian elephant.The memorandum...
Written by: John E. Scanlon
There is no global agreement on wildlife crime, nor any universally agreed definition of wildlife crime.
In the absence of such an agreement, CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, a trade convention created to...
Written by: Kimberly White
Last month a search team embarked on a journey to Indonesia to find the “holy grail” of bees.
The world’s largest bee, initially discovered by British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1858, had not been seen since 1981.
The team,...
Written by: Kimberly White
In the weeks leading up to World Pangolin Day, officials around the world have seized approximately 40 tonnes of pangolins.
Earlier this month, police working on a tip, raided a warehouse and factory in Sabah, Malaysia....
Written by: Kimberly White
Last week, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released their new study, Reforesting for the climate of tomorrow.
Researchers identified key tree and plant species that are resilient to climate change.
The study analyzed 250 species...
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Written by: Julie Mollins
Limiting climate change to 2 degrees Celsius and conserving 30 percent of terrestrial area could halve the risk of plant, bird and mammal extinctions compared to the consequences of uncontrolled climate change...
Written by: Kimberly White
For the first time in four years, new tigers have been documented in a region of western Thailand. Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation (DNP) teamed up with global wild cat conservation organization,...
Written by: Kimberly White
Vietnam has taken an important step forward in preventing future pandemics. Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued an extensive directive restricting the wildlife trade.
Effective immediately, the directive (29/CT-TTg) bans imports of all wildlife and...
Written by: Charlotte Edmond
Just because a net is no longer being used doesn’t mean it can’t continue to catch things. Italian divers have freed a sperm whale entangled in a fishing net off the northern coast of Sicily.
The...
Written by: Elizabeth Claire Alberts
From high above, the blue sea looks like it’s speckled with tiny white dots. But a closer look reveals more: each dot is actually a sea turtle swimming toward the shore of a coral cay....
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