Spy‑cam rhinos to take on poachers with devices hidden in their horns
Conservationists claim the combination of GPS tracker, heart-beat monitor and spy camera will be a game changer.
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False stereotypes mean endangered animals are being protected in the wrong places
Black rhino conservation focuses on areas with acacia trees – but they actually prefer to eat grass.
Lion hunt quotas could be good for animals but bad for humans
Criticism of sport hunting nearly always focuses on whether hunting is cruel or not. A good example was provided by the recent controversy surrounding Melissa Bachmann, a keen hunter and television personality…
Medetomidine: the dangerous animal sedative turning up in Scotland’s street drugs
Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative, is now turning up in heroin, diazepam and fentanyl across the UK and US.
India’s militant rhino protectors are challenging traditional views of how conservation works
Park rangers, local people and conservationists need to find some common ground.
From rhino horn snuff to pangolin livestock feed: we analysed half a century of patents to track the wildlife trade’s evolution
Analysis of thousands of patent applications sheds new light on hidden wild harvests.
How can we stop people wanting to buy illegal wildlife products?
Promote new habits, find out why people engage with the wildlife trade and don’t make it seem more widespread than it really is.
Did Romans really fight rhinos? Sports historian explains the truth behind the battle scenes in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II
One thing that certainly did not happen was a warrior mounted on a rhinoceros (even a non-computer-generated one) charging at a group of gladiators.
Save the elephant: what we can learn from failures of the war on drugs
There are many similarities between wildlife poaching and the cultivation of drug plants like the coca bush or the opium poppy.
Misguided ‘war on poaching’ will not save the wild beasts
Rhinos, elephants and the big cats like lions and tigers are all at risk of extinction as a result of a resurgence in the illegal trade of their body parts. Newspapers in recent days have been filled with…
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