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U.S. Ends Private Ownership and Breeding of Big Cats
WASHINGTON, DC, May 11, 2023 (ENS) – Somewhere in the United States an estimated 20,000 big cats are kept in private ownership, often purchased as cubs or bred for photo [...]
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Bird Flu Kills Condors Recovering From Near Extinction
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 8, 2023 (ENS) – Bird flu has killed 21 endangered California condors in northern Arizona this spring, weakening a reintroduced flock that has been carefully nurtured for [...]
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Kruger Park Ensnared in Corruption Linked to Criminal Syndicates
By Don Pinnock
KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, March 28 (ENS) – Yet another suspected poacher has died in a hail of bullets fired by unknown gunmen in the eastern [...]
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U.S.-South Africa Wildlife Task Force to ‘Follow the Money’
PRETORIA, South Africa, January 25, 2023 (ENS) – In her meeting with South African officials today, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced a commitment between the U.S. Treasury and South [...]
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Earth’s Biodiversity Crisis Activates Governments, Police
LYON, France, December 7, 2022 (ENS) – A wildlife and timber trading law enforcement crackdown by the international police force Interpol and the World Customs Organization has yielded more than [...]
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Living Planet Report 2022 Shows Wildlife Species Dying Out
WASHINGTON, DC, October 14, 2022 (ENS) – “The roar of the jaguar could be heard near the community three years ago, but not anymore. Compared with my childhood, I’ve witnessed [...]
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Global Police Join Prince in Fighting Illegal Wildlife Trade
LONDON, UK, October 5, 2022 (ENS) – The world does not have “the luxury of time” to tackle organized wildlife crime, but it does have “a proven roadmap to success [...]
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Tiger Numbers Rise, But Monarch Butterfly Numbers Crash
GLAND, Switzerland, September 1, 2022 (ENS) – The migratory monarch butterfly, known for its unique annual journey of up to 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) across the Americas, has entered the [...]
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Lions, Tigers, Bears, Apes Rescued from Ecopark Under Fire
KHARKIV, Ukraine, April 27, 2022 (ENS) – The evacuation of the Oleksandr Feldman Ecopark in the bombed city of Kharkiv is still going on – the animals are being removed [...]
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South Africa Inflates Value of Trophy Hunts to Conservation
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, March 29, 2022 (ENS) – The High Court of the Western Cape Friday ruled against South Africa’s Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment on its 2022 [...]
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Campaigners, Nations Encourage Japan to Close Ivory Market
LYON, France, March 6, 2022 (ENS) – Africa’s elephants top a packed agenda for the CITES Standing Committee meeting opening Monday that covers protection for 30+ species of plants and [...]
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Exploring Whale Superhighways With a Global Team of Scientists
GLAND, Switzerland, February 20, 2022 (ENS) – An in-depth new map and report that tracks whale migrations around the globe, highlights where the whales go in the high seas and [...]
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Police, Diplomats Form United Front for Endangered Wildlife
BEIJING, China, February 12, 2022 (ENS) – The endangered animals and plants protected by the global treaty known as CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, now have [...]
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Newly Discovered Mekong Region Monkey Endangered Already
VIENTIANE, Laos, January 29, 2022 (ENS) – On the steep hillsides of the dormant volcano that is Myanmar’s sacred Mount Popa, live more than 100 monkeys of a newly discovered [...]
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Italy to Ban Fur Farming, Fur Growers Will Be Compensated
ROME, Italy, December 21, 2021 (ENS) – The Budget Committee of the Italy’s Senate today voted to approve an amendment to the budget law which will see the country’s 10 [...]
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World’s Tigers Vanishing Into Tiger Bone Glue Pots
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 10, 2021 (ENS) – More tigers now live in illegal captivity on so-called tiger farms than in the wild, raised from cubs as livestock, and slaughtered when [...]
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Vietnam Cracks Down on Wildlife Trafficking But Crimes Persist
LONDON, UK, November 28, 2021 (ENS) – Vietnam needs international help to disrupt the operations of Vietnamese-led wildlife crime syndicates active in Africa and Asia. Despite government efforts to turn [...]
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Humans ‘Hold the Survival of Other Species in Our Hands’
WASHINGTON, DC, October 12, 2021 (ENS) – An agreement to halt human-induced extinctions in 2022 is under consideration as countries gather online this week for the 15th meeting of the [...]
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Tech Firms Block 11.6M Online Wildlife Trafficking Deals
WASHINGTON, DC, October 4, 2021 (ENS) – The budding Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online, with 47 member companies across the tech sector, issued its second progress report on [...]
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23 Species Off U.S. Endangered Species List: All Are Extinct
WASHINGTON, DC, September 29, 2021 (ENS) – Endangered Species Act protections came too late for 23 species that will be removed from the Endangered Species List because they are already [...]