In a remote, rugged valley overlooking the Pacific Ocean, researchers closely monitor an endangered icon: the California condor. The giant vultures flap their wings and circle the sky before perching on branches and observing their observers. Wildlife biologist Amy List uses a hand-held antenna to ...
An Ecuadorean judge has sentenced 20 Chinese crew members to jail and levied a $5.9 million fine after their ship was found with 300 tons of frozen marine animals apparently from the Galapagos reserve, including protected sharks. Judge Alexandra Arroyo announced late Sunday that the ...
In the shadow of giant war machines, a tiny rare butterfly is flourishing. Oddly, experts say, the U.S. military gets the credit. The frosted elfin, which flutters along on a 1-inch (2.5-cm) wingspan, has found a home at several defense installations because of the way ...
The Environment Ministry will tighten controls on Japan's elephant ivory market, including by making traders register with the government and adding stiffer penalties. The ministry expects to submit a bill to revise the species conservation law to the Diet, with an eye to having ...
The hidden danger to wildlife posed by imported consumer goods — an espresso coffee in Beijing, a tofu salad in Chicago — can now be pinpointed and measured, researchers have announced. Crunching huge amounts of data, they unveiled a global "threat map" detailing the impact ...
The Law on Conservation of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora is set to be revised once again to further improve government measures to prevent vulnerable animal and plant species from becoming extinct. Conservationists say they scored some victories in 2016, symbolized by the ...
In October, a new documentary produced by Leonardo DiCaprio premiered on Netflix. "The Ivory Game" is a dramatic study of the illegal trade in elephant tusks that includes conservationists battling poachers, investigative journalists following the money trail and black market merchants in China. Experts say ...
A virtuous cycle, whereby local producers have a direct interest in protecting wildlife because they are benefiting from its legal trade is the best long-term solution to the problem of sustainability.
An international panel on wildlife products adopts a draft resolution to collect data on the eel trade as wild stocks dwindle.
Elephant ivory has long been used worldwide to make a host of items from jewelry, piano keys and billiard balls to art and personal seals. Japan, which used ivory to make hanko (personal seals), was one of the biggest importers in the 1970s and 1980s, ...
Two Malaysian nationals pleaded guilty to smuggling wildlife into the United States and were sentenced by a judge in Portland, Oregon, to six months in federal prison. The investigation began three years ago, when authorities found a helmeted hornbill mandible while searching an international package ...
Japan imports vast quantities of juvenile Japanese eels from Hong Kong despite international efforts to control trade in the endangered species, with conservation groups calling for tighter regulations. Japan imported 4,364 kilograms of young Japanese eels from Hong Kong in January and February, and 1,657 ...
