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World-Renowned Ivory and Rhino Horn Investigator Killed in Kenya

By EcoWatch / February 6, 2018

The conservation world is mourning the loss of renowned rhino horn and elephant ivory trade investigator Esmond Bradley Martin, who was found dead Sunday at his home in Nairobi‚ Kenya. The 75-year-old U.S. citizen had a stab wound in the neck. His wife, Chryssee Martin, reported the death. Kenyan Interior Ministry spokesman Mwneda Njoka told […]

Ivory Trade in China Is Now Banned

By Mongabay / January 2, 2018

Japan’s Lax Regulations Threaten Chinese Ivory Ban

By David Leestma / December 21, 2017

Conservationists Sound Alarm on Plummeting Giraffe Numbers

By EcoWatch / October 10, 2017

Graffiti Campaign Inspires Protection of Endangered Rhinos

By Mongabay / April 13, 2017

Poachers Illegally Kill Hundreds of Endangered Snow Leopards Each Year

By EcoWatch / October 21, 2016

With possibly as few as 4,000 snow leopards surviving in the wild, a new report from TRAFFIC has found that hundreds of the endangered big cats are being killed illegally each year across their range in Asia’s high mountains. Published ahead of today’s UN meeting on snow leopards and International Snow Leopard Day on Sunday, […]