Protecting China’s Animals in the Monkey Year
For centuries, macaque monkeys have been a ubiquitous entertainment fixture in Chinese cities,...
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LatestActivist Protecting Seals Given 12 Year Sentence
The 12-year sentence for an environmental activist who worked to protect the spotted seal has been...
An Appeal From Mao Led Tu Youyou to a Nobel Prize
On October 5, 2015, 84-year-old pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou was one of three recipients...
China’s Demand for Ivory “Out of Control”
At TIME, Maya Rhodan looks at a new report from nonprofit Save the Elephants on China’s...
China “Main Destination” For Illegal Chimpanzee Trade
China’s central role in the global black market in ivory and other wildlife products has...
China is Brewing Wine From Tiger Bones
After a Chinese delegate admitted that Beijing allows a trade in skins from captive tigers at a...
China Admits to Permitting Tiger Skin Trade
After apparently being backed into a corner last week at a Convention for International Trade in...
A Border City on the Edge of the Law
The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs visits the Chinese-dominated Myanmar border town of Mong...
Kenya Extradites Alleged Ivory Kingpin to China
The AP reports on the apprehension and extradition of an alleged Chinese ivory smuggler in Kenya...
“Shark Slaughterhouse” Exposed in Zhejiang
After a four-year investigation, Hong Kong-based conservation group WildLifeRisk has exposed what...
China’s Six-Ton Ivory Crush Debated
The Washington Post’s Simon Denyer reports on the destruction of more than six tons of...
New Regs Could Increase Wild Animal Exploitation
The New York Times reports that wildlife management regulations proposed in China may actually...
Yellow-Breasted Bunting ‘Endangered’
South China Morning Post reports that China’s now endangered yellow-breasted bunting...
China’s Dam Boom “a Faustian Bargain”
China has built 22,000 dams taller than 15 meters since the 1950s, displacing some 16 million...
Siberian Tigers Making a Comeback in China
Once nearly extinct in China, the Siberian tiger is making a comeback. The population of Siberian...
Who’s Protecting Endangered Species in China?
Research sponsored by wildcat protection group Panthera shows that the endangered snow leopard has...
Yangtze Freshwater Turtles on Verge of Extinction
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...
'It's Really Good Stuff': Undercover at a Chinese Tiger Bone Wine Auction
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...
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