December 5, 2022 Sulemani Mohamed loves sharks. While most people fear the apex predators, they are a “keystone species” — an animal that helps define and maintain entire marine ecosystems. …

December 2, 2022 Shabani Mkwavila is a personable person. Fittingly, he landed a tourism job at Mafia Island Marine Park right out of college. At the time, a staff shortage in the Tanzanian marine protected area allowed Shabani to work as an honorary park ranger. …

December 2, 2022 Dorje Jyal was born and raised in a rural Tibetan community. “All the memories I have about my childhood are the stories between nature, humans, and wildlife. I still remember when I was around five, my grandparents showed me all these wild animals and taught me math…

December 1, 2022 OnDecember 26th, 2004, a deadly tsunami hit Indonesia — ravaging Aceh and sparking Ina Nisrina’s conservation journey. …

December 1, 2022 Growing up, Rodrigo Munzenmayer thought nature was something that happened in places other than Tierra del Fuego. His eyes were not yet opened to the beautiful birds that inhabited his home or the lush landscapes that bordered the island. So when his mother housed Daniela Droguett at…

Government of Peru’s Proposal to Protect the Matamata Accepted at CITES CoP19 — By Yovana Murillo | November 22, 2022 Many conservationists who work to protect matamata freshwater turtles found in the Amazon have never even seen one in the wild. There are two species of matamata turtles, and both are good at camouflaging themselves in streams, rivers and lakes; they look like…

A unique and wonderful feature of so many birds — their songs — is making them the targets of a growing trade in live caged birds. — By Elizabeth L. Bennett | November 18, 2022 What would a forest, urban garden or park be without the rich and diverse early morning bird chorus and sounds of birds throughout the day and at different seasons? …

By Arnaud Goessens, Jorge Rios, and Olga Kuzmianok October 28, 2022 The European Union (EU) is not immune from involvement in wildlife trafficking, and continues to be a major demand market, transit hub, and source for species of wild fauna and flora trafficked at a global scale. Six European countries…

By Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels | September 14, 2022 Wildlife conservation management aims to halt or reverse the ongoing biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse engendered by the crushing weight of human pressure during the “Anthropocene” — the name for the current geological epoch, so named because humans are having…