Poaching

This month brings new books by Bill McKibben and Carl Safina, as well as important discussions about wildlife coexistence, poaching and dam removal.

Alex Dehgan’s new book The Snow Leopard Project details successful strategies for conserving endangered wildlife — and helping people in the process.

It’s going to be a rough year, but we’ll also see some progress.

Tensions are high as wolves begin to wander the country for the first time in 200 years. Now some scientists have a possible solution.

When tigers are reintroduced into an area where they once lived, people need to learn to live with them all over again.

Conservationists fear this will stimulate demand for poached animals while making it harder to enforce existing laws.

In her new book Poached, journalist Rachel Love Nuwer travels into the heart of darkness that threatens elephants and many other species with extinction.

A new study — the first of its kind — finds that the world’s conservation areas fail to protect hundreds of rare cactus species.

Books coming out this month also examine the dangerous world of wildlife trafficking, the history of poisonous chemicals and new ideas in agriculture.

A new study shows that CITES-listed sharks remain some of the dominant species in the retail fin market.