Wildlife Trafficking

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.

Books out this month also address protecting pollinators, Florida panthers and other endangered species.

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.

A discussion on the “Our Wild World” podcast looks at the future for rhinos, elephants, giraffes, vaquitas and other species affected by legal and illegal wildlife trafficking.

In response to pressures from the international community, Mexico has agreed to take more steps to prevent the porpoises’ extinction — but with fewer than 20 remaining, will that be enough?

In warming Alaska, Pacific walruses and Inuit craftsmen find themselves facing new and intersecting threats.

Some people object to placing limitations on trade in threatened species, but new rules will benefit both the gecko and the countries in which it lives.