China in biggest-ever pangolin scale seizure
Chinese customs seized over three tonnes of pangolin scales, state media said, in the country’s biggest-ever smuggling case involving the animal parts. Shanghai Customs found around 3.1 tonnes...
How Climate Change is Affecting Polar Bears
Climate change is affecting everything in a bad way, and we better start paying more attention to everything triggering it, and especially greenhouse gas emissions. One of the most important animals...
Baby orangutans rescued in police sting
Police rescued two baby orangutans in a sting operation in Bangkok after undercover officers arranged to buy the primates over a mobile phone messaging app from wildlife traffickers for nearly...
Odd facts about the giraffe
One of the most under-studied large mammals in Africa, research has shown the giraffe has silently been going extinct, with numbers dropping 40 percent in the past three decades. Here are some...
Cambodia seizes huge haul of ivory and animal parts
Cambodian officials have seized 1.5 tonnes of illegal ivory and animal parts hidden in a timber shipment from Mozambique that was destined for China, a wildlife charity and an official said today....
Now boar-ding — wild pig chase at Hong Kong airport
A wild boar led Hong Kong police on a merry chase after it wandered onto the apron of Hong Kong’s international airport on Tuesday. Several officers were able to trap the animal, holding it...
The fight to save Earth’s smallest rhino
Deep from within the Indonesian jungle a solitary, seldom seen forest giant emerges from the undergrowth. It is a Sumatran rhino, one of the rarest large mammals on Earth. There are no more than 100...
