The third edition of the World Wildlife Crime Report probes recent trends in the illicit trafficking of protected species of wild fauna and flora and provides a broad assessment of current knowledge ...

Despite being one of the highest value areas of crime globally, with links to organized and violent crime, wildlife crime is falling down the list of policing priorities due to lack of data, resource, ...

Pangolins curl into a ball to survive predators, but that same instinct makes them shockingly easy for poachers to grab by ...

The illegal wildlife trade threatens many species worldwide but also jeopardizes local communities’ well-being and livelihoods, breaks down law and order in society, compromises people’s safety and ...

The GDELT Project is a vast open-access tool that scours and live translates news media in 65 languages to quantify, describe and map broad societal trends worldwide. GDELT will harness data from even ...

July 19, 2022 - Wildlife crime threatens the very existence of some of the world's most precious forests, coral reefs, fish, and animals. But the profit motive behind wildlife crime is often unnoticed ...

Around the world, wildlife and environmental crime is surging. It is estimated to be the fourth largest organized transnational crime sector, and to be growing at a rate two to three times faster than ...

Global biodiversity is declining, and human activities are mainly to blame. Indeed, 96 per cent of the world’s total remaining mammalian biomass — the combined weight, or mass, of mammal organic life ...

A new agreement between 193 countries is set to clamp down on wildlife crime. Last week’s UN resolution upgraded the seriousness of such crime, putting it on a par with trafficking people and arms – a ...

A specialised workshop at Dudhwa Tiger Reserve trained 97 forest and enforcement personnel to identify illegally traded ...

By Sadiqur Rahman A handful of animal lovers, mostly representing the youth community, spread across Bangladesh, have become ...