Poaching

These crimes threaten tens of thousands of species around the world, causing extinctions, hurting people and spreading disease.

New research indicates a growing online trade in porcupine bezoars — a ball of inedible material that sometimes gathers in their digestive tracks.

States are facing significant shortages of conservation officers, who help protect natural resources and wildlife. COVID-19 could make it worse.

The world’s smallest bears face oversized pressure from poaching, traditional medicine and the illegal pet trade. The COVID-19 pandemic could make things even worse.

President Trump’s notorious border wall is just one transboundary threat to the world’s wildlife.

Wildlife trade, deforestation, industrial farming and other factors threaten both animals and human health.

We’ve created a world where parasites and pathogens can run amok. Here are three steps we need to take, as a society, to protect both native species and human health.

As biodiversity disappears, the risk to human health increases. Experts say we need to protect wild spaces and species to help prevent future outbreaks.

And they’re not the only ones in trouble — orchid species around the world face increasing threats from illegal trade and habitat destruction.

Three bird species, two frogs, a shark, a famous snail and one of the world’s largest freshwater fish were among those declared extinct this year.