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Exotic pets 'damaging biodiversity' says IUCN

Youtuber charged with wildlife offences and jackals saved in South Africa

Bird species in peril at the world's wildlife summit

Inside the minerals underworld with UN researcher Tanya Wyatt

Pirates of the Caribbean make their comeback

Wildlife crime is seen as a soft touch by criminal gangs

'There's a culture of impunity': investigating deforestation in South America

Tigers under attack

Wildlife 'influencers' in spotlight after croc-wrestling investigation

An ocelot, a Spaniard, and 1,400 animals

Social media influencer investigated for crocodile wrestling videos

Private breeder raided after advertising animals for sale online

Rare porpoise facing extinction due to illegal fishing

South Africa's 'Rhino Baron' arrested linked to horn trafficking

Nigeria's biggest ever wildlife bust; China and South Korea in key fishing agreement

Airport seizure spotlights US demand for rare corals

'Coffee' shops selling illegal wildlife products to tour groups in Laos

How the world's wildlife treaty works — and where it falls short

Illegal miners, wildlife traffickers targeted in Amazon raids; and donkey penises seized

Exclusive: Pangolin scales listed for sale online by British company

Tiger King star jailed for buying endangered animals for road-side zoo

When is a wildlife crime justifiable?

Cecil's legacy: what lion conservation looks like a decade on

Luxury fashion’s hidden cost: brands linked to Amazon deforestation

'Mermaid ivory' and shark fins being sold online

Oceans at 'tipping point' and time is running out to save them

Lion cubs for hire, snakes on a plane and poached rhinos

Millions of seahorses seized as global demand grows

Dom Phillips’ legacy: exposing the perils of protecting the Amazon

Poachers thrive as Trump’s aid cuts cripple wildlife protections

3,000 hermit crabs in a suitcase: inside the week’s weirdest wildlife seizures

Interview: 'Wildlife crime is still treated like a minor offence. That has to change'

Pangolin trafficking falls; poaching and illegal mining on the rise

Belgian teenagers face sentencing in Kenya over ant smuggling scandal

How pet lions became a new high-class status symbol; Netflix highlights the pangolin; and trafficking TikTok fails

Earth Day, bird poaching and how corruption drives illegal tree felling in the Amazon

Ants in test tubes, penguin protections and exotic animal cafes

Trapped turtles and smuggled tarantulas

'It's not about hugging fish, it's about making sure they are there for the next generation'

Gorillas for sale, lizards in luggage and a trafficked flamingo

'When I say I work on wildlife trafficking people think I'm a hippy'

Sharks for sale, tiger poaching in India and smugglers using drones

The dark side of circuses: how performing animals are linked to trafficking

Downfall of the cactus king, lion poaching and the role of fishing boats in tiger smuggling

A smuggled turtle skull, rescued bear cubs and an NGO suing Trump

How wildlife trafficking drives ecological disasters, sexual exploitation and organised crime

Jaguar trafficking in Suriname, protection for pangolins and mafia waste dumping

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