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By understanding what drives people to buy wild species, we can figure out how best to stop them.

Confiscated ivory taken from smugglers, traders and tourists by US authorities was crushed to chippings last week, The stockpile of more than six tonnes, amassed since the 1989 international embargo on…

Are new approaches to recreating long-lost animals simply creating imitations?

Digital tools offer a ray of hope for conservationists in an era when the need for more data to better understand the natural world is ever increasing. From combating rhino poaching in Africa to tracking…

There has been a huge increase in attention recently to the problem of wildlife poaching, mostly from the stream of grisly stories from Africa about rhino and elephants illegally killed for their horn…

Animal behaviour experts give the low down on which animals would making a winning team.

In South Africa, huge stockpiles of rhino horn are kept, even though there’s a global ban on trading it.

Wildlife trafficking extends to areas like ant smuggling and illegal trade

Long-standing assumption that humans killed large mammals 4.5m years ago has been debunked by researchers – but some experts still think humans played a part in the demise of biodiversity

Protecting rhinos and fighting terrorism are both noble causes, but there isn’t much evidence of a link between the two.