South China Sea on Verge of Environmental Disaster
In July, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled against China’s claims to...
Sep 2, 2016
In July, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled against China’s claims to...
Dec 10, 2014
At TIME, Maya Rhodan looks at a new report from nonprofit Save the Elephants on China’s...
Jul 22, 2014
After a Chinese delegate admitted that Beijing allows a trade in skins from captive tigers at a...
Jul 16, 2014
After apparently being backed into a corner last week at a Convention for International Trade in...
Apr 28, 2014
While Chinese demand for ivory threatens Africa’s elephants, Yunnan’s 300 Asian...
Sep 8, 2013
Amid frequent bad news about wildlife issues in and involving China, LiveScience’s Tia Ghose...
Mar 11, 2012
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...
Dec 12, 2011
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....
Jul 13, 2008
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...
Sep 27, 2006
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, saying the big cats will likely vanish completely within a few years without government intervention. Trade in poached Indian tigers is flourishing across the border […]
Jul 17, 2005
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. Research by Zhang Li, an associate professor of zoology with the college of life sciences at Beijing Normal University, discovered that the gene for tusklessness is spreading […]