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Anti-Whaling Activist Paul Watson Arrested at Japan’s Request

NUUK, Greenland, July 23, 2024 (ENS) – On the morning of Sunday, July 21, Captain Paul Watson, co-founder of marine conservation organization Greenpeace, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, was arrested by Greenland police upon his arrival in the capital, Nuuk. […]

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Success and Tragedy Mark First Rhino Embryo Implant

BERLIN, Germany, February 8, 2024 (ENS) – For the first time, a rhinoceros has successfully become pregnant following embryo transfer. Although the surrogate mother rhino died before she could give birth to the transferred calf, scientists say the successful embryo implantation paves the way for use of the same method to save the entire northern white rhino subspecies from extinction. […]

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Interpol Links Wildlife Smuggling to Organized Crime Groups

LYON, France, December 29, 2023 (ENS) – Rare live primates, pangolins, birds, and reptiles; body parts from endangered elephants, rhinos, and big cats as well as protected tropical hardwoods have been seized in a joint Interpol – World Customs Organization operation to stop wildlife and timber trafficking. […]

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Wildlife Worldwide Contaminated by Flame Retardants: New Map

BERKELEY, California, October 26, 2023 (ENS) – Wild animals across every continent are contaminated with flame retardant chemicals, according to a new map tracking peer-reviewed research studies worldwide. The more than 150 species of polluted wildlife mapped include penguins, killer whales, red pandas, chimpanzees and other endangered species. […]

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Invasive Aliens Blamed for 60% of Plant, Animal Extinctions

BONN, Germany, September 5, 2023 (ENS) – Invasive alien species pose a “severe global threat that is underappreciated, underestimated, and often unacknowledged,” finds a new report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, IPBES, an independent intergovernmental body working to strengthen the role of science in public decision-making. […]

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Kruger Park Lions Being Poisoned by Poachers for Body Parts

PRETORIA, South Africa, August 6, 2023 (ENS) – South African National Parks has confirmed that lions have been targeted in a poisoning campaign in northern Kruger Park by poachers seeking the animals’ body parts, presumably for the trade in the muti, traditional medicine, trade. […]

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International Wildlife Traffickers Chased, Captured, Convicted

VALENZUELA CITY, Philippines, July 7, 2023 (ENS) – The days when law enforcement agencies and courts turned a blind eye to wildlife trafficking are now history. A court in the Philippines has sent an online trafficker to jail for illegally selling Critically Endangered Chinese Giant Salamanders, marking a win against online wildlife crime […]

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Biden Restores Some of the Species Protections Axed by Trump

WASHINGTON, DC, July 22, 2023 (ENS) – As the United States marks the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service are proposing to restore protections for species, strengthen consultation and listing processes, and reaffirm the central role science plays in decisions that guide the protection and recovery of endangered and threatened wildlife. […]

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Bloody South African Wildlife Cull Stopped After 900 Deaths

PRETORIA, South Africa, June 15, 23 (ENS) – A trustee of the Mawana Family Trust, whose conservationist husband was killed by elephants from the Mawana Game Reserve in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, tried to have 3,600 of its wild animals culled “to get some cash flow going.” By the time the cull was stopped nearly 900 animals were dead. […]

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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 opportunities. according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, USFWS. When they grow past the cute cub stage, they are sold into the exotic pet trade or the illegal market or abandoned to already financially strained sanctuaries. […]

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Kruger Park Ensnared in Corruption Linked to Criminal Syndicates

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 province of Mpumalanga’s landscape of fear. Clyde Mnisi, Chief of the Mnisi Tribal Authority, trailing charges of murder, money laundering, illegal sale of rhino horn and racketeering, died of multiple bullet wounds near Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport late Sunday night. […]

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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 Africa’s National Treasury to form a new United States – South Africa Task Force on Combating the Financing of Wildlife Trafficking. […]

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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 900 arrests and the disruption of wildlife and timber crime networks globally. Police and Customs officials have made have 2,200 seizures and identified 141 companies they suspect of engaging in illegal sales. […]

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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 and the motivation to put it into action,” the Prince of Wales told more than 300 global leaders from law enforcement agencies, conservation organizations and the private sector. […]

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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 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as Endangered, beset by habitat destruction and climate change. […]

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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 animals. Delegates will consider the live trade in elephants, management of ivory stockpiles, and the closure of domestic ivory markets. […]