Conservation organisations call for governmental and public support against illegal wildlife trade in Singapore 25 October 2012, Singapore – World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Singapore and TRAFFIC in ...
BANGKOK (AP) – Squealing tiger cubs stuffed into carry-on bags. Luggage packed with hundreds of squirming tortoises, elephant tusks, even water dragons and American Paddlefish. Officials at Thailand’s ...
A provocative art project is highlighting the critical threat to Southeast Asian wildlife from poaching snares that kill millions of animals every year. Phnom Penh, Wednesday, 2nd August, 2017: A ...
A new photo book by authors and photographers Bjorn Olesen and Fanny Lai aims to raise awareness of Asia’s impressive biodiversity and protected areas, and inspire mindful ecotourism that supports ...
Social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram are increasingly being used in Asia as platforms for the illegal trade in a range of threatened species such as orangutan and sun bears, conservation ...
COVID-19 curbs have resulted in a sharp drop in the illicit trade, but the industry is poised to bounce back hard as travel restrictions ease. Endangered wildlife products including pangolin skins and ...
sea snakes at one time these snakes ancestors lived on dry land they must still visit the surface to breathe but they are beautifully adapted to life at sea hunting for fish around the island reefs ...
Asia needs a special crime-fighting network to combat a booming illegal wildlife trade worth billions of dollars which threatens many species with extinction, Thailand’s prime minister said on ...
Illegal wildlife trafficking remains a perennial problem in Southeast Asia, but with the ongoing spread of the new coronavirus, there’s added impetus for governments in the region to clamp down on the ...
Deep within the untouched rainforests and mist-covered mountains of Asia roams a predator that few have seen but many revere, the Asian Golden Cat (Catopuma temminckii). Often described as the “hidden ...
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