Wildlife trafficking is one of the world's most widespread illegal trades, contributing to biodiversity loss, organized crime, and public health risks. Once concentrated in physical markets, much of ...

FIU marine evolutionary biologist Heather Bracken-Grissom assisted in identification, coordinating with a third-party lab to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephant tusks seized from wildlife traffickers are gathered to be destroyed in Abuja, Nigeria, on January 9, 2024. (Emmanuel ...

Wildlife crime, once driven mainly by small-scale poaching, is increasingly becoming an organised and transnational activity ...

The global illegal trade in wildlife is worth an estimated US$19 billion annually and is the largest crime sector after drugs, counterfeiting and human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A baby orangutan was seized by Thai police in an anti-trafficking operation in May 2025. Thai police Central Investigation Bureau ...

“One wildlife inspector cannot handle mail, sea cargo, air cargo and passengers,” a former Fish and Wildlife Service agent told lawmakers. A retired Fish and Wildlife Service law enforcement officer ...

Experts have turned to a scientific technique known as stable isotope analysis to determine whether a seized reptile was illegally smuggled from the wild. This scientific method will help prosecutors ...

Live animal trafficking has reached its highest level on record, Interpol announced on Thursday, following a global operation that uncovered nearly 30,000 trafficked animals and identified more than 1 ...

Tarak Nath Ghosh, a major figure in a reptile smuggling network, was arrested by the Madhya Pradesh State Tiger Strike Force. He is wanted in several cases of illegal wildlife trade and his operations ...

The sale of game meat was banned in 2001, restricting legal trade to specific approved species like crocodile and ostrich ...