Protecting China’s Animals in the Monkey Year
For centuries, macaque monkeys have been a ubiquitous entertainment fixture in Chinese cities,...
by Josh Rudolph | Feb 11, 2016
For centuries, macaque monkeys have been a ubiquitous entertainment fixture in Chinese cities,...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 17, 2015
The 12-year sentence for an environmental activist who worked to protect the spotted seal has been...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 7, 2015
On October 5, 2015, 84-year-old pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou was one of three recipients...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 10, 2014
At TIME, Maya Rhodan looks at a new report from nonprofit Save the Elephants on China’s...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 8, 2014
China’s central role in the global black market in ivory and other wildlife products has...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 22, 2014
After a Chinese delegate admitted that Beijing allows a trade in skins from captive tigers at a...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 16, 2014
After apparently being backed into a corner last week at a Convention for International Trade in...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 25, 2014
The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs visits the Chinese-dominated Myanmar border town of Mong...
by Josh Rudolph | Feb 12, 2014
The AP reports on the apprehension and extradition of an alleged Chinese ivory smuggler in Kenya...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 28, 2014
After a four-year investigation, Hong Kong-based conservation group WildLifeRisk has exposed what...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 7, 2014
The Washington Post’s Simon Denyer reports on the destruction of more than six tons of...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 17, 2013
The New York Times reports that wildlife management regulations proposed in China may actually...
by Cindy | Nov 26, 2013
South China Morning Post reports that China’s now endangered yellow-breasted bunting...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 6, 2013
China has built 22,000 dams taller than 15 meters since the 1950s, displacing some 16 million...
by 不忘初心 | Oct 1, 2013
Once nearly extinct in China, the Siberian tiger is making a comeback. The population of Siberian...
by 不忘初心 | Sep 17, 2013
Research sponsored by wildcat protection group Panthera shows that the endangered snow leopard has...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 12, 2013
Scientists in China are working to save the world’s largest freshwater turtle, which is on the verge of extinction, with only four known to be alive. Once prevalent in the Yangtze River and other parts of China and...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 6, 2011
The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts goes undercover at an auction in Beijing featuring tiger bone wine, despite the ban on sale of products from endangered animals: I decided to reveal that I was a journalist so I could ask the...