Illegal wildlife trade

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• Rhino horn demand in Vietnam drops by more than 33% in one year

  16 Oct 2014: Information campaign successfully changes minds of people who think rhino horn has medicinal value

• China 'main destination' for illegally traded chimpanzees

  14 Oct 2014: China Dialogue: Baby chimpanzees are being hunted and sold to populate country’s growing number of wildlife parks, says photographer Karl Ammann at launch of documentary in Beijing

• Tiger survival: mapping poaching and trafficking hotspots

  14 Oct 2014: Janaki Lenin: The case of ‘Putin’s tiger’ recently put poaching into the media spotlight. In India, a new modelling exercise is helping to tackle the crime by mapping areas where tigers are most at risk

• South Africa’s Kruger National Park invites bids for 500 white rhinos

  6 Oct 2014: Animals offered to private buyers in attempt to move them to safety as poaching increases to meet demand for horns

• Elephant poaching: thousands march worldwide for wildlife protection

  5 Oct 2014: Demonstrators in 136 cities and towns across six continents joined the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos

• Indonesia makes first arrests of manta ray traders

  1 Oct 2014: Three traders arrested for dealing in whole manta rays and their gills, in first detentions since legal protections

• David Attenborough backs £1m project to save Bengal tiger

  1 Oct 2014: Indian village to be relocated to create the most densely packed population of tigers in the world and stop them eating people
  

• Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF

  30 Sep 2014: Species across land, rivers and seas decimated as humans kill for food in unsustainable numbers and destroy habitats
  

• Elephant killings in Mozambique happening on ‘industrialised’ scale

  23 Sep 2014: Organised crime syndicates are slaughtering between 1,500 and 1,800 elephants a year in Mozambique for ivory

• Rescuing orphaned baby elephants in Kenya - in pictures

  12 Aug 2014: To mark World Elephant Day, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has released behind-the-scenes pictures of efforts to save orphaned baby elephants in Africa, where up to 35,000 animals are killed for their tusks each year

• Sales of shark fin in China drop by up to 70%

  7 Aug 2014: Traditionally a symbol of wealth and luxury, public attitidues towards shark fin are changing in China, according to a new report
  

• US teenagers have bagpipes seized at Canada border after competition

  5 Aug 2014: New Hampshire teens, returning from competition, contact their congressional delegation after customs seize ivory pipes

• Pangolins being eaten to extinction, conservationists warn

  29 Jul 2014: Scaly anteaters are now the most illegally-traded mammal in the world, with all eight species listed as threatened

• Illegal wildlife trade along the Burma-China border - in pictures

  21 Jul 2014: The town of Mong-La in Burma's Shan state, close to the border with China, is at the crossroads of illegal wildlife trade routes from India, Burma, Laos and Thailand

• The week in wildlife - in pictures

  18 Jul 2014: Ghost bats, beaver babies and desert elephants are among the pick of this week's images from the natural world
  

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