Poaching

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.

The snaring crisis in Southeast Asia appears to have claimed the lives of the country’s last wild tigers.

A debate over the future of trophy hunting points out that many effective alternatives to funding and supporting conservation have started to emerge.

Scientists have once again developed a method to fabricate horns in the lab, supposedly to disrupt poachers and wildlife traffickers. Here’s why that won’t work.