Tag: illegal wildlife trade

A man has pleaded guilty for illegally importing reptiles into the United States after agents discovered more than 1,700 animals on him at the Mexican border. He was carrying 60...

Will Mexico be the site of the next zoonotic pandemic? In a column first published on Mexico Today, Brookings Institution senior fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown warned that the country is vulnerable...

Measures to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus have had mixed results on global wildlife poaching. Restrictions on movement and tighter border security have reduced the transportation of illegal...

In the last decade, an innovative community-based ecotourism strategy has attracted attention in Laos for saving wildlife and supplementing local people’s incomes. Researchers found that paying villagers for tourists’ wildlife...

From elephant ivory to caiman skin and caged parrots, the international wildlife trade traffics thousands of tropical products around the world and puts all kinds of species at risk. A...