Species Stories
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Urgent action needed to halt increased trafficking of critically endangered tortoises
Over a thousand critically endangered Madagascar tortoises have been seized during trafficking ...
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Continued trafficking of endemic tortoises risks undoing decades of efforts to conserve Madagascar’s natural heritage
In the first three months of 2013 only, 1026 individuals of the two most famous Malagasy tortoise ...
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Governments start to rein in ivory and rhino horn trade, give sharks and timbers better protection at wildlife trade meeting
A critical wildlife trade meeting closed Thursday with decisions from world governments to regulate ...
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World`s valuable timbers protected against illegal trade
Precious ebony and rosewood timbers have secured protection
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WWF pushes CITES toward bold action to protect threatened species
WWF is urging governments to recognize the scale of threat posed by international wildlife crime, ...
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Over three hundred tortoises rescued following major poaching incident in Madagascar
Over 300 tortoises have been rescued from poachers and released back into the wild in two separate ...
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Management and governance reform urgently needed for a sustainable tuna fishery in the Indian Ocean
Tuna stocks are increasingly threatened worldwide, due to overfishing and lack of effective ...
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A day of hope for Madagascar’s rainforests
After two years of continuous lobbying against illegal logging of precious hardwoods, which hit ...
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Malagasy authorities arrest smugglers, seize 196 endangered tortoises
Two men face trial in Antananarivo, Madagascar for trying to smuggle nearly 200 of some of the ...
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Malagasy Frontier Police seize Indonesia-bound shipment of ‘world’s rarest’ tortoises
Antananarivo—Authorities in Madagascar on Monday arrested two men and seized close to 200 of some ...