Illegal trade pressure on pangolins pushes three species further up the risk register
Three species of pangolins have moved into a higher category of threat due to the growing impacts of habitat loss, poaching and illegal trade
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UNESCO must stop ‘vanity’ hydropower dam set to destroy Africa’s largest protected wildlife area
The Tanzanian Government is teetering on the edge of committing irreversible environmental damage with aggressive plans for a dam in one of the world’s most famous wildlife reserves - a UNESCO World Heritage site
Botswana’s elephants poaching crisis is all too real, leaving no room for head-in-the-sand denials
The past few years have seen Botswana hailed as a global leader in conservation, so the Government’s recent response to the 2018 Aerial Survey of Elephants and Wildlife in northern Botswana conducted by Elephants Without Borders – and the subsequent vilification of director/founder Dr Mike Chase – is both baffling and disappointing.
Snow leopards still threatened by consumer demand for their skins and body parts
Today is International Snow Leopard Day, a global observance commemorating the signing of the Bishkek Declaration on the conservation of snow leopards in 2013. The snow leopard has been listed on the IUCN Red List as ‘Endangered’ since 1986, although it recently had its threat status downgraded to ‘Vulnerable'
Ulin: A precious landscape protected by those who live in it
In the middle of the well-known and overexploited island of Borneo, benefitting from an unexpected level of protection from both a lazy river restricting its access and belief in a curse respected for centuries by local communities, a surprisingly rich forested ecosystem has survived. Until now
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Closing all ivory markets – IUCN vote shows the way
Following several long and bloody years of escalating poaching, it looks as if elephants may at last be given a fighting chance.