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Wildlife trafficking

Thousands of pangolins, 193,000 elephants — how crime networks are hollowing out Africa’s wilderness

Africa

Thousands of pangolins, 193,000 elephants — how crime networks are hollowing out Africa’s wilderness

By Don Pinnock

How Uganda became the world’s top market for trafficked Galápagos iguanas

Africa

How Uganda became the world’s top market for trafficked Galápagos iguanas

By Don Pinnock

Polluters and poachers feel the sting of environmental guardians the Green Scorpions

Our Burning Planet

Polluters and poachers feel the sting of environmental guardians the Green Scorpions

By Tony Carnie

South Africa exports millions of creatures great and small in shadowy global wildlife trade

South Africa

South Africa exports millions of creatures great and small in shadowy global wildlife trade

By Don Pinnock

Call for urgent reform as trophy hunting decimates near-extinct super tuskers on the Kenya-Tanzania border

South Africa

Call for urgent reform as trophy hunting decimates near-extinct super tuskers on the Kenya-Tanzania border

By Valtino Omolo and Willis Okumu

Tracking poachers — how nuclear technology could transform rhino conservation

Our Burning Planet

Tracking poachers — how nuclear technology could transform rhino conservation

By Julia Evans

Can South Africa contain pangolin trafficking?

Our Burning Planet

Can South Africa contain pangolin trafficking?

By Carina Bruwer

Sea turtle population in deep water as West Africa poaching and trafficking thrive unpunished

Africa

Sea turtle population in deep water as West Africa poaching and trafficking thrive unpunished

By Abdelkader Abderrahmane

Hefty sentences for rhino poachers after new wildlife trafficking strategy starts to bite

Africa

Hefty sentences for rhino poachers after new wildlife trafficking strategy starts to bite

By Vincent Cruywagen

Horrific cruelty – legal trade and lack of protection are decimating South Africa’s primates

Our Burning Planet

Horrific cruelty – legal trade and lack of protection are decimating South Africa’s primates

By Don Pinnock

The Sting: Meet the men and women risking their lives to save pangolin from being trafficked through a global criminal network

Africa

The Sting: Meet the men and women risking their lives to save pangolin from being trafficked through a global criminal network

By Shiraaz Mohamed

Trafficked from Serbia: How birds from Guinea end up in European pet shops

Africa

Trafficked from Serbia: How birds from Guinea end up in European pet shops

By Tristen Taylor, Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams and Nemanja Rujević