Some of this trade is legal, but many times animals are captured from the wild illegally to supply demand for exotic pets. The illicit sales of live animals comprises a major part of the overall ...

Legal wildlife trade averaged US$220 billion per annum between 1997 and 2016. Legal wild animal exports originating from Africa are estimated to be worth US$245 million each year. While this can ...

In the forests of eastern Australia, satin bowerbirds create structures known as “bowers.” The males gather twigs and place ...

These are just some of the concerning injuries and conditions that are experienced by animals associated with wildlife trade. Every day, wild animals are either killed on sight, or removed from ...

In short, much of the international trade in captive-bred animals is a scam. What are the economics of captive breeding? In countries where enforcement levels are low, and capacity or policies to ...

a cluster of vendors in a downtown market offering carcasses and live specimens of dozens of wild animals—from bamboo rats to ostriches, baby crocodiles and hedgehogs. The Huanan food market ...

Among the 200 different species listed for sale were two non-native species banned from international commercial trade - the Eurasian otter and the black spotted turtle. Some of the animals for ...

Credit: Getty Images/500px Plus A wildlife trafficking watchdog is calling out Facebook for hundreds of listings of animals in Thailand. TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring organization ...

For Tolstoy, art is a means of conveying emotion. Others see it as a simple representation of the world. But in the animal kingdom, the lines blur, as Shawn Simpson, visiting lecturer in ...