poaching

JOHANNESBURG—A new report from European Union-funded international crime response group Enact states that organized crime groups from South Africa and China—in collaboration with corrupt wildlife officials—are “decimating” the population of ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Local prosecutors and law enforcement officials on March 9 raided seven locations and questioned 19 individuals in ...

The parks authorities in Zimbabwe are investigating the deaths of 11 elephants in a forest in the west ...

A Cincinnati zoo has welcomed a brand-new eastern black rhinoceros into the world, born healthy on the evening ...

Kenya is welcoming an increasing elephant population after a concerted effort by the government, and nonprofits, to put ...

Poaching is a severe problem in Africa that is not only cruel to the wildlife, but also provides ...

An eastern Croatian man hopes his heartwarming story of nursing an injured water bird back to health will ...

Authorities are trying to find the person responsible for removing an alligator's tail in northern Texas on Aug. ...

Authorities in Brazil have broken up a gang of alleged poachers accused of killing thousands of endangered animals, ...

Four poachers hunting for tigers and dolphins were killed in a shootout with police in thick mangrove forest ...

Poachers in Alaska were filmed killing a hibernating mother bear and cubs in footage released by the Humane ...

One hundred baby spotted seals that had been captured by poachers were found in a poultry farm in ...

Recent media reports say China is proposing to boost imports of U.S. semiconductors to $200 billion in the ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania—A Tanzanian court sentenced a prominent Chinese businesswoman dubbed the "Ivory Queen" to 15 years ...

Asian elephants in Burma are being poached at an alarming rate—all to meet soaringdemand for the animal's skin ...

Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson's sweeping new documentary film "Walking Thunder: Ode to the African Elephant" takes viewers on ...

An alarming number of elephant carcasses have been discovered in aerial surveys across Botswana in what has been ...

Ever heard of a baiji? It used to be a freshwater dolphin living uniquely in China's famous Yangtze ...

Kenya is set to burn 105 tons of elephant ivory and more than 1 ton of rhino horn, ...

As highly social animals – like human beings – elephants rely on their bonds to navigate everyday life.

SAN FRANCISCO—Ivory dealers in San Francisco's Chinatown stood in their shop doors next to windows full of carved ...

It is often said that if something is repeated often enough, it becomes accepted as true. This has ...

As the electric saw cuts into the base of the horn of the live rhino lying at my ...

Elephants can tell when a storm is approaching, even if it’s 150 miles away. Scientists hope one day ...

Ever since the World Trade ban on illegal ivory trade in 1989, there has only been an increased ...

A technology that uses discarded mobile phones to create a real-time alert system against logging and poaching will ...

As the slaughter of elephants, rhinos, and tigers increases, conservationists are looking to promising surveillance technologies and training ...