At a recent summit in Ethiopia, the African Union (AU) decided to approve a 15-year continent-wide ban on the slaughter of donkeys for their hides. Donkey hides are a key component of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)...
Shanghai has extended a city-wide lockdown amid the worst COVID-19 outbreak in two years amid growing anger at quarantine rules. With 311 symptomatic and 16,766 asymptomatic cases reported on Tuesday, the megacity of 26 million...
In their efforts to trace and contain a rapidly growing coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong, authorities have identified a prime suspect of transmission: hamsters. After one employee of a pet shop tested positive for COVID-19 in...
The tension between development and environmental protection in China has been most keenly felt in...
For centuries, macaque monkeys have been a ubiquitous entertainment fixture in Chinese cities,...
The 12-year sentence for an environmental activist who worked to protect the spotted seal has been...
The annual Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in Guangxi Province has drawn increasing attention...
At the New York Times, Andrew Jacobs reports on the bursting of a bubble in demand for Tibetan...
At TIME, Maya Rhodan looks at a new report from nonprofit Save the Elephants on China’s...
Efforts to eradicate the inhumane practice of bear bile harvesting have gained some traction in...
An environmental watchdog organization has accused Chinese officials and businessmen of smuggling...
At Foreign Policy, Alexa Olesen describes the shift in Chinese views of pandas from metal-eating...
China’s central role in the global black market in ivory and other wildlife products has...
A Chinese delegate at a convention on endangered species recently admitted that China allows the...
Following the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed thousands in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous...
Yulin, a southern city in China, kicked off its annual dog-eating festival over the weekend amid a...
At The Atlantic, Damien Ma interviews the anonymous director of the soon-to-be-released...
The New York Times reports that wildlife management regulations proposed in China may actually...
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