Assam, India -For only the second time in India's history, two female Indian rhinos, an adult female and a juvenile,have been successfully translocated from Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary to Manas National Park in Assam. The two females join two ma...
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Vladivostok, Russia, 25th November 2010—Customs officers from Russia and China met last week to strengthen international co-operation in tackling cross-border smuggling of Tigers and other wildlife products.
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Hi Everyone, Many thanks to my colleagues, friends and family for the 50th birthday wishes...Susan and I had a lovely week's holiday on our own rented island near Skye. The weather was pretty good and so was the wildlife, Seals, a Minke whale, Pi...
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4th November 2010—Wildlife smuggler Anson Wong, sentenced to six months in jail in September, has seen his prison term raised to five years by a Malaysian High Court. 
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The Galapagos K-9 Police Unit Detects Wildlife Crime   En Español The K-9 unit of the Ecuadorian Environmental Police recently prevented an illegal exportation of two marine iguanas, an emblematic species of the Galapagos archipelago that ha...
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New Delhi, India, 28th October 2010—Jackie, one of the newly qualified dogs under TRAFFIC India and WWF-India’s sniffer dog training programme, along with her handlers Mr Padam Singh Rajput and Mr Shivram, helped apprehend two poachers in H...
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A week ago, we received notice from our partners at the Northern Light Wildlife Shelter (NLWS) in Canada that two orphan grizzly bear cubs were being held at a park station in Bella Coola, British Columbia. Hours before, a local Conservation Officer had discovered that a mother bear had been shot and her two...
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Tokyo, Japan, 12 October 2010 - TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, has released a report analysing the status of Japan’s trade in wild animal and plant species entitled The State of Wildlife Trade in Japan, to coincide with the ...
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The extreme gale force winds that we have been experiencing in the last week seem to have finally dissipated. We’ve been thinking about our colleagues who are also working in the field in Bardsey Island in North Wales and wondering if they have ...
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Myanmar, 9th October 2010 – Authorities in Myanmar have seized a menagerie of wildlife parts and products from a shop in Mandalay including two Clouded Leopard skins prominently displayed outside the premises.
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Photo Courtesy of SLT/Panthera Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who works at the base camp of our long-term research project in Mongolia. These are his adventures… So much has happened during the three weeks since I returned from Sweden that it is hard to know where to begin. I arrived together with Jennifer from the...
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Jakarta, Indonesia, 21st September 2010—two Wildlife Trade Regulation Courses are taking place this week in Indonesia for staff at airports and seaports to enhance their capacity to stop illegal wildlife trafficking. Thousands of passengers and t...
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