#illegalwildlifetrade — Public Fediverse posts

Inside the secret Laos shops selling pangolin scales, bear bile and tiger bones to tourists
By Robyn Vinter and Frances Rankin

Covert footage obtained by the Guardian shows how crime networks are using front souvenir shops to hide a booming wildlife trade targeted at a new influx of Chinese tourists

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/14/laos-wildlife-pangolin-scales-bear-bile-and-tiger-bones-tourists-chinese-aoe

#Wildlife #Illegalwildlifetrade #Mammals #China #Laos #Animals #AsiaPacific #Conservation #Environment #Worldnews #Endangeredspecies #TheGuardian #RobynVinter #FrancesRankin

"Buried within numbers and codes is a steady stream of #wildAnimals arriving in #Armenia from Congo, Lebanon, and Iran, only to vanish from official radar. This is the story of how Armenia remains a grey hub for the #wildlifeTrade: where exotic and #endangeredSpecies imported through international schemes are rerouted to private collections..."

https://evnreport.com/environment/ahead-of-cop17-armenia-remains-a-wildlife-laundromat-2/
#COP17 #biodiversity #wildlifeTrafficking #illegalWildlifeTrade #wildlifeSmuggling @nature

South African men sentenced in ‘world’s largest’ rhino-horn trafficking case https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/18/south-africa-men-sentenced-rhino-horn-trafficking-case #SouthAfrica #IllegalWildlifeTrade #Animals #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #Africa #WorldNews

Ant smuggler sentenced to a year in jail by Kenyan court https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/ant-smuggler-sentenced-to-a-year-in-jail-by-kenyan-court #IllegalWildlifeTrade #Animals #WorldNews #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #Kenya #China #Africa

Inside the illegal eel trade: is there a way to stop Europe’s biggest wildlife crime before it’s too late?

Interviews with experts and key players across four countries reveal why efforts to stop the multibillion-euro trafficking industry have failed – and how to save the endangered fish.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251022-inside-the-illegal-eel-trade-is-there-a-way-to-stop-europes-biggest-wildlife-crime-before-its-too-late?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Eels #Wildlife #Environment #Conservation #Europe #Japan #France #Spain #Portugal #UK #EndangeredSpecies #IllegalWildlifeTrade #Europol #Longread

Otters posing for selfies in Japanese cafes may be linked to illegal trade, experts warn https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/11/otter-japanese-cafe-dna-small-clawed-otters-captivity-japan-wild-trade #Illegalwildlifetrade #Conservation #Environment #AsiaPacific #Worldnews #Thailand #Wildlife #Mammals #Animals #Travel #Japan

Dehorning rhinos reduces poaching by 80%, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/05/dehorning-rhinos-deters-poachers-rangers-helicopters-aoe #Illegalwildlifetrade #Alternativemedicine #Endangeredspecies #Conservation #SouthAfrica #Environment #Worldnews #Wildlife #Animals #Africa

Dehorning rhinos reduces poaching by 80%, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/05/dehorning-rhinos-deters-poachers-rangers-helicopters-aoe #Illegalwildlifetrade #Alternativemedicine #Endangeredspecies #Conservation #SouthAfrica #Environment #Worldnews #Wildlife #Animals #Africa

Our latest study finds nearly 5 million seahorses smuggled across 60+ countries despite strict trade regulations — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

🔗 Read full story here: https://projectseahorse.org/new-study-exposes-the-tip-of-the-illegal-seahorse-trade/

#SavingSeahorses
#ProjectSeahorse #OceansAsia #IllegalWildlifeTrade

‘People buy a lion and can’t handle it’: inside the farms breeding cubs for Tiktok and Instagram likes https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/28/thailand-lion-exotic-pet-trade-instagram-tiktok-aoe #Illegalwildlifetrade #Animalwelfare #Conservation #AsiaPacific #Environment #Worldnews #Thailand #Wildlife #Animals

Poacher stomped to death by elephant in South African national park

#Africa #Elephant #ELEPHANTS #environment #IllegalWildlifeTrade #Poachers #SouthAfrica #SouthAfrican #Wildlife #WildlifeCrime
https://theaegisalliance.com/2021/10/26/south-african-poacher/?fsp_sid=288

Shrinking trees and tuskless elephants: the strange ways species are adapting to humans https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/06/evolution-species-adapt-response-humanity-tuskless-elephants-natural-world-wildlife-aoe #Illegalwildlifetrade #Endangeredspecies #Treesandforests #Conservation #Environment #Evolution #Shellfish #Worldnews #Wildlife #Nebraska #Animals #Biology #Science #Oceans #USnews #Birds

Police seize 6,000 illegal wild birds’ eggs as raids net largest haul in UK history https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/30/police-seize-6000-wild-birds-eggs-as-raids-net-largest-haul-in-uk-history #Illegalwildlifetrade #Conservation #Environment #Worldnews #Wildlife #Animals #UKnews #Crime #Birds

Rats trained to sniff out smuggled rhino horn and pangolin scales https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/31/rats-trained-to-sniff-out-smuggled-rhino-horn-and-pangolin-scales #Illegalwildlifetrade #Endangeredspecies #Treesandforests #Conservation #Environment #Worldnews #Wildlife #Animals

Global wildlife crime causing ‘untold harm’, UN report finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/13/global-wildlife-crime-untold-harm-un-report-unodc-aoe #Illegalwildlifetrade #Extinctwildlife #Conservation #Biodiversity #Environment #Worldnews #Wildlife

Red panda found in luggage of smuggling suspects at Thailand airport https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/07/red-panda-found-in-luggage-of-smuggling-suspects-at-thailand-airport #Illegalwildlifetrade #Conservation #AsiaPacific #Environment #Worldnews #Thailand #Wildlife #Animals

We R conditioned 2 overlook destructive impact of human conflicts on nature, biodiversity. Our world has witnessed lack of #empathy as concerns 4 sustainability & protection of #wildlife R forgotten in times of #war. #Animal #casualties R considered collateral damage whether result of abandonment, euthanization of domesticated animals or poaching. #IllegalWildlifeTrade, destruction of #habitat of #wildanimals need robust int law 2 protect animals during armed conflict https://www.mjilonline.org/a-plea-for-the-silent-victims-new-law-for-protection-of-animals-during-armed-conflicts/

Voluntary Consensus-Based Geospatial Data Standards For The Global Illegal Trade In Wild Fauna And Flora
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01371-w <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #illegalwildlifetrade #communication #data #engagement #wildlife #wildlifeconservation #illegal #international #global #geography #source #transit #destination #smuggling #datastandards #opendatastandards #geospatialdatastandards #online #indictments #wildlifetrafficking #wildlifetrade #decisionmaking #enforcement #poaching #poachers #trade #flora #fauna

After months of work, my #investigation uncovering a multimillion-euro #wildlife #trafficking network and its wealthy European clients was published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/01/it-is-the-best-business-the-man-who-smuggled-birds-across-europe and https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/astronomical-money-how-smugglers-made-tens-of-millions-moving-rare-birds-around-the-world #wildlifetrafficking #illegalwildlifetrade #endtrafficking #investigativejournalism

Hi all. Time for an #introduction. I'm an ex-journalist (although, there will always be ink in my veins), now working as Director for East and Southern Africa at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime. More here: https://globalinitiative.net/observatory/esa_obs/. Previously I was at TRAFFIC, the international wildlife trade monitoring network and Africa Check, the continent's first political fact-checking website. I'm the author of the book "Killing for Profit". #OrganisedCrime #IllegalWildlifeTrade

Excited to try to connect and reconnect(!) with folks here interested in, among other things:

#PoliticalEcology #MultispeciesEthnography #Geography
#IllegalWildlifeTrade
#Plants
#PoliticalGeography #Conservation
#Biodiversity
#Geopolitics

A second 12-tonne haul of pangolin scales has been uncovered in a week. As if one wasn't bad enough. :-(

#Nature #Pangolins #IllegalWildlifeTrade #Singapore #Animals

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/second-12-tonne-haul-of-pangolin-scales-seized-in-less-than-a-week