Conservationists have demonstrated that legalised trade and commercial breeding of wild animals stimulates demand, encourages poachers and smugglers and ultimately pushes species towards extinction in the wild. A new study supports this view.…
Seven live tiger cubs were found in a car stopped on suspicion of wildlife trafficking in Nghe An Province Sunday. Two men were arrested.…
Prowl of poachers into Sundarbans for tigers as smugglers make lucrative offers - a big risk for the few remaining tigers of the Sundarbans.…
Controversy brews over leaked tiger breeding report - Tiger experts say the document, a U.S.-funded draft manual for inspecting captive tiger facilities, legitimizes commercial tiger breeding.…
Seized: 8 leopard skins and a tiger skin in India's Odisha - even wildlife smugglers were arrested in Kalahandi by a joint team from WCCB & officials.…
The Great Cover-Up: substitute species in illegal wildlife trade - creating more and more pressure on the lesser-known species…
A buffer zone for Thailand: last great hope for wildlife in Southeast Asia - If animals like the Indochinese tiger are to be saved from extinction.…
Kunjok Lama - a tiger poacher and ringleader of the ringleader of a notorious wildlife smuggling network was sentenced to 7 years in jail in Nepal.…
Jeff Lowe of “Tiger King” fame was scheduled to appear in a Las Vegas courtroom on Tuesday. However, he was not there.
Lowe was convicted in 2018 of illegally using animals to make money in the Las Vegas valley.
Prosecutors say that Lowe would bring tigers to Las Vegas and sell photo…
Eight persons including five policemen and two health workers were nabbed with tiger’s skin in naxal affected Dantewada town on Friday.
On the day of ‘Shivratri’ forest of police officers received inputs from their trusted sources that few people had reached Jagdalpur with tiger’s skin for performing pooja, a press release…
The threat of permanent closure hangs over a tiger park in the north-eastern province of Mukdahan, due to the alleged illegal smuggling of tiger cubs. The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has brought charges against Mukda Tiger Park & Farm, also known as Mukda Suan Sua, and…