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.…
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…
The United States and Royal Thai Governments celebrate World Wildlife Day on March 3 noting that a joint awareness campaign has helped reduce the demand for ivory and tiger products in Thailand by more than half.
Research conducted by the U.S. Agency for International Development and Thailand’s Department of National Parks,…
An intelligence-gathering investigation by Earth League International and the Dutch national committee to the IUCN has revealed that Chinese-controlled trafficking syndicates are responsible for smuggling jaguar body parts out of Bolivia.
These groups hide behind legitimate businesses like restaurants and shops, which also serve as fronts for the transit of other…
The seizure of goods en route from Nigeria to Vietnam was shocking in only its size. The Nigerian Customs Service, working with British Border Force officers, intercepted a shipment of 10 tonnes of tusks, bones and scales, believed to be from 709 elephants, 11 lions and 10,658 pangolins.
More than one…
Officials of SSB 3rd battalion and the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in a joint operation have seized a tiger’s skin and other body parts from the possession of two local youths, who were trying to enter Nepal through Belaparsuva border outpost in Lakhimpur Kheri district on Saturday night.
Forest department officials…
There are likely more tigers in captivity than in the wild, Humane Society of the United States says
Many San Antonio residents were shocked by recent reports of a tiger cub sighting at a Southwest Side house over the weekend, but animal rights activists say tigers held in captivity are actually common.
Even though captive tigers are a “serious threat,” the Humane Society of the United States said there…
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.…