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News Archives - January 2011 through April 30, 2012
Exotic Animals Black Market News Police Uncover 700 Illegal Wildlife Trade Cases China Daily USA - April 30, 2012 Museums on Alert as Organized Crime Looks For New Sources of Rhino Horn The Guardian - April 26, 2012 Transport Companies in China are Urged to be on the Lookout for Illegal Wildlife Trade TRAFFIC- April 18, 2012 Two Rhinos Poached as Probe Conducted into Other Cases Kenya Wildlife Service - April 15, 2012 The Illegal Ivory Trade Threatening Africa's Elephants BBC- April 14, 2012 Man Caught with Birds in Pants at Taiwan Airport Asia One - April 5, 2012 London, Capital of the Rhino Horn Business Business Week - March 27, 2012 Banning Ivory Sales to China Could Save Elephants Mongabay - March 27, 2012 Vietnam Police Seize 5 Tons of Frozen Pangolins and Iguanas Destined for Chinese Cooking Post Associated Foreign Press - March 25, 2012 Black Ivory. Dreadful Year for Elephants The Economist - March 12, 2012 Jail Time for Thailand's 'Cell Phone' Tiger Poachers Wildlife Conservation Society - March 10, 2012 Bloodhounds Used to Sniff Out Poachers Killing Elephants MSNBC - March 8, 2012 "Frankenstein" Taxidermist Sentenced to 20-Months for Trafficking Endangered Species TRAFFIC - March 5, 2012 Tusks and Ivory Seized at Airport Cape Times - March 4, 2012 Elephant Death-toll Rises to Almost 500 in One Park in Cameroon Mongabay - March 2, 2012 Higgins and Lady, Two Survivors of Horrific Rhino Poaching Attack - video Fairy Glen Game Reserve - March 1, 2012 103 Animals Seized in Wildlife Center Raid Bangkok Post - February 28, 2012 Illegal Orangutan Trader Successfully Prosecuted for First Time in Indonesia Huffington Post - February 28, 2012 Rhinoceros Horn Smuggling Ring Busted by Federal Wildlife Investigators Huffington Post - February 28, 2012 Federal Raids a 'Serious Blow' to Rhino Trade Los Angeles Times - February 25, 2012 Last Stand: Trafficking Rhino Horn - video MSNBC - Rock Center - February 22, 2012 Meet the Pangolin, Another Animal Threatened by Traditional Asian Medicine Scientific American - February 20, 2012 Poachers Have Slaughtered At Least 200 Elephants in Four Weeks in a Cameroonian National Park Huffington Post - February 19, 2012 Crime Chiefs Agree to Get Tough on Illegal Tiger Trade BBC - February 18, 2012 Sniffer Dog Tracey Helps Recover 32 kg of Ivory TRAFFIC - February 12, 2012 Trio Sentenced for Rhino Poaching ioL News - February 2, 2012 Illegal Ivory Trade Blooms During Egypt's Arab Spring TRAFFIC.org - January 31, 2012 Monitoring a Grim Rise in the Illegal Ivory Trade Yale Environment 360 - January 25, 2012 Poachers Have Killed Eleven Rhinos in 2012 TreeHugger - January 19, 2012 Pilot Study Tracks Importance of Tracking Diseases Associated with Illegal Wildlife Trade at US Ports PR Newswire - January 14, 2012 Eight Rhino Killed by Poachers in Kruger Park Times Live - January 14, 2012 Confiscated Bushmeat Poses Virus Threat BBC - January 13, 2012 Malaysia Seizes Over Half a Ton of Illegal Ivory Traffic - January 11, 2012 As Affluence Spreads So Does Trade in Endangered Species New York Times - January 2, 2012 Ivory Trade: Elephant Tusk Seizures Reach Record Numbers in 2011 Huffington Post - January 1, 2012 Click Here to View/Hide 2011 Exotic Animal Black Market News Rescued Indian Star Tortoises Sent Home New Straits Times - December 28, 2011 Czech Man Tried to Smuggle 247 Live Animals, Many Venomous, from Argentina Global Post - December 28, 2011 Three Rhinos Killed in Limpopo Eyewitness News Johannesburg - December 14, 2011 Two White Rhinos Dehorned African Conservation Foundation - December 13, 2011 5 Tons of Endangered Pangolin Meat Seized New Sabah Times - December 12, 2011 Highly Endangered Rhino Horns Found in Hong Kong BBC - November 17, 2011 Indonesian Tiger Smuggler Could Escape with Light Sentence Wildlife Extra - October 24, 2011 Swedish Bird Catcher Convicted of Animal Cruelty Huffington Post - October 21, 2011 Baby Gorilla Saved From Black Market Sale, Conservationists Fear Growing Demand (Video) Huffington Post - October 15, 2011 Baby Gorilla on Black Market for $40,000 is Saved MSNBC - October 14, 2011 Gorilla Poachers Brutally Murder Forest Ranger Mongabay - October 13, 2011 More Illegal Trafficking in Over 100 Pangolins Intercepted TRAFFIC - October 3, 2011 Dutch Traveler Arrested Smuggling Live Hummingbirds in His Trousers Daily Mail - September 28, 2011 Nearly 100 Endangered Pangolins Rescued in Thailand The Guardian - September 26, 2011 Pangolin, 'Scaly Anteater', Smuggling is Driving Animal to Extinction Huffington Post -September 20, 2011 Zimbabwe Poachers Turn to Poisoning Water Holes Huffington Post - September 20, 2011 South Africa: Poisoned Rhino Horn Won't Deter Poachers African Conservation Foundation - September 19, 2011 Poachers Kill 12 Elephants in northern Mozambique park All Africa - September 19, 2011 Rare Wildlife Seized in Thai Trafficking Bust - video ST Breaking News - September 15, 2011 Poisonous Rhinos Discourage Poachers Discovery News - September 12, 2011 Animal Broker Charged in Death of 15 Monkeys Los Angeles Times - September 10, 2011 Rhino Poachers Get 21 Years Each Traffic - September 9, 2011 Another Large Ivory Seizure in Malaysia Traffic - September 8, 2011 Fears Grow for Asia's Endangered Anteaters MY Sinchew - September 2, 2011 Airport Animal Smugglers Busted in LA and Miami ABC News - September 1, 2011 Chinese Consumerism Latest Threat to African Elephants Reuters - August 30, 2011 Chinese Doctors Call for Cruel Bear Farms to be Closed Telegraph - August 30, 2011 Illegal Ivory Openly On Sale in Chinese Markets The Ecologist - August 29, 2011 Replica (Fake) Rhino Horns Stolen from Museum BBC - August 29, 2011 More Than 1,000 Ivory Tusks Seized in Tanzania Wildlife Extra - August 28, 2011 Poachers Still Ravaging Malaysia's Wildlife, Especially the Sun Bear Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center - August 28, 2011 Congo Wildlife Authorities Arrest Key Members of Baby Mountain Gorilla Trafficking Ring Gorilla.CD - August 27, 2011 Illegal Wildlife Trade on the Increase Myanmar Times - August 24, 2011 Tough sentence for ivory smuggler be the way forward in elephant poaching crisis Mongabay - August 23, 2011 Rhinos Threatened with Extinction to Meet Demand for Bogus Cancer Cure The Guardian - August 22, 2011 Over 1,000 smuggled dogs rescued by Thai authorities Huffington Post - August 17, 2011 China Opens Trade in 'Legal' Tiger Skins Mongabay - August 14, 2011 Wildlife Trade Ring Busted Telegraph India - August 5, 2011 Tough Sentences for Vietnamese Rhino Horn Smugglers in South Africa Traffic - August 4, 2011 BUSTED: Wildlife Officials Catch Poachers on Facebook AllFaceBook.com - August 3, 2011 Organized Crime Wiping Out Wildlife Discovery News - August 2, 2011 Endangered Dolphins Captured for Performances in S. Korea The Hankyoreh - July 20, 2011 Kenya to Burn 5 Tons of Ivory as Elephant Poaching Peaks Wildlife Direct - July 18, 2011 Rhino Poaching Crisis in South Africa as 200 Killed in Six Months The Guardian - July 12, 2011 Mountain Gorilla Killed By Poachers Wildlife Extra - June 29, 2011 Drugged Baby Leopard, Bears, Monkeys Found in Bags at Thai Airport Verizon.net - May 13, 2011 Pills, Powders, Viles and Flakes: The Bear Bile Trade in Asia Traffic.org - May 11, 2011 Kenyan Police Seize 1 Ton of Ivory at Airport Verizon.com Headlines - May 7, 2011 Wildlife-Smuggling Bust: 259 Live Animals Found in 3 Suitcases npr.org - February 16, 2011 Back to Top	More News by Category: Exotic Animal Black Market General Animal-Related and Environmental News International Pets and Domesticated Animals Primate News - General Research Sanctuaries United States Zoos Back to Current Headlines Donations can be mailed or conveniently made online. Your generous support makes our work possible. 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