South China Sea on Verge of Environmental Disaster
In July, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled against China’s claims to...
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LatestChina’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 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...
Rubber Boom Threatens Yunnan’s Elephant Haven
While Chinese demand for ivory threatens Africa’s elephants, Yunnan’s 300 Asian...
Monks Protect Snow Leopards; Restaurateur Saves Turtle
Amid frequent bad news about wildlife issues in and involving China, LiveScience’s Tia Ghose...
China Fuels Resurgent Ivory Poaching
Ivory poaching in Africa, fuelled in large part by Chinese consumers, is reaching a scale not seen since the 1980s. The amount seized last year, twice as much as in 2010, suggests the killing of at least 2,500 elephants, but...
Detentions for 1994 Murder of Environmentalist
Economic Observer reports that six men have turned themselves in to Qinghai police over the past month in connection with the 1994 murder of a well-known protector of the Tibetan antelope. Three other suspects remain at large....
UN May Legalize Ivory Sales from Africa to China
Most discussions of China’s search for resources in Africa focus on oil, minerals, and timber. Often overlooked is China’s equally huge appetite for ivory. A paper published last year in the online edition of the...
Tiger-Skin Market in Tibet Flourishing – Gavin Rabinowitz
From AP via Casper Star Tribune: Environmentalists accused India and China in a stinging indictment Wednesday of doing almost nothing to stem the rapid decline of tigers in the wild,
Wang Zhuoqiong: Tuskless elephants evolving thanks to poachers
From China Daily:
More male Asian elephants in China will be born without tusks because poaching of tusked elephants is reducing the gene pool, a recent study predicts.
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