A new study illuminates the pandemic-producing pathogens transmitted between people and mammals in the wildlife trade.

The illegal wildlife trade is a highly lucrative criminal enterprise responsible for thousands of animals being trafficked ...

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At least 110 countries are now involved in illegal trade in wildlife — more than doubling from 49 in 2000. Trade connections jumped by more than 400%, according to a recent analysis of global wildlife ...

Growing demand for lion bones, skins, teeth, and claws poses a serious new threat to the species. Students gather evidence at a simulated crime scene, including a mock-up lion carcass, while attending ...

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Wildlife trade is decimating the planet’s biodiversity, driving declines in more than 31,500 wild species and spreading infectious zoonotic diseases that jump between wildlife, livestock and humans.

In Pat Conroy’s book, The Great Santini, Col. Bull Meecham ran over Eastern box turtles for fun, to hear them go pop! on the highway. But in real life, another peril awaits the endangered little ...

The Peoria Zoo sits quietly in Glen Oak Park, housing some of the planet’s most endangered species while the rest of the ...

In an intervention that might one day inspire the animated animal version of Argo, the Cheetah Conservation Fund and ...