How people view and treat wild animals can vary dramatically from one part of the world to another. In the first ...

A new report from the global nonprofit International Fund for Animal Welfare revealed that illegal wildlife trafficking has skyrocketed across Latin America in recent years. Researchers warn that the ...

Potential profits from domestic and international trafficking in rare Amazon parrots, sea cucumbers, totoaba, and other wildlife are soaring — attracting the same Latin American criminal syndicates ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. While some governments strengthened environmental laws, multilateral commitments and financing mechanisms to protect forests, oceans and ...

The laundering of illegally sourced endemic species undermines conservation efforts. National governments must switch the incentives to ensure sustainable trade benefits are captured locally. Latin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty million passengers pass through Miami International Airport each year, some with a dark secret. Concealed in the confines of ...

Luciana Gallo of BIOMAR-CONICET and Marcela Uhart of UC Davis sample for highly pathogenic H5N1 among cormorants (by shore) and terns (in greenery) at Punta Leon in Argentina in November 2023. The ...

Criminal organizations behind environmental crimes and other illicit economies in Latin America and the Caribbean are placing the region’s vast biodiversity, fragile ecosystems, and Indigenous ways of ...

With illegal wildlife trade threatening wild species and community livelihoods around the world, TRAFFIC is expanding into Latin America. The initial focus of TRAFFIC’s work in Latin America will be ...

Latin America is one of the world’s most varied holiday regions. One trip might take you from Inca ruins and Andean peaks to ...

In 2018, police said two men flew from Guyana to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and tried to smuggle 26 finches in socks and hair curlers to put them in a bird-singing competition ...

Fifty million passengers pass through Miami International Airport each year, some with a dark secret. Concealed in the confines of their hair curlers, medicine bottles and baby formula are thousands ...