Painted woolly bats — one of the world’s most colorful bats, with wings streaked in orange and black — were the top-selling species both in these markets and online, and are in demand as decorations in the U.S.,as well as Europe and Canada.
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Ringleader of Montana's largest bear poaching case banned from hunting in state
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3,053 kilograms of pangolin scales seized in Indonesia!
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120,000 dried Tokay Geckos seized in Thailand.
The illegal and unsustainable reptile trade is massive - and a major threat to the survival of an increasingly long list of species....
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Why Canada’s Grizzlies Are at Risk Again and How Tourism Can Help www.sierraclub.org/sierra/why-c...
No interest in Trump's latest Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale!
“This is a huge embarrassment for Trump’s Alaska fossil fuel fantasy,” said Cooper Freeman, the Alaska director at @biologicaldiversity.org.
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The will of the public is clear. The question is, will the government listen? Add your name to the petition before its too late: petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
The BLM began #logging mature and old-growth forests aggressively under the first Trump administration.
Now, still not satisfied, the second administration has proposed a new plan to more than quadruple the amount of logging to 2.5 million acres of #PublicLand in western #Oregon.
Take action ⬇️
This would mark the first time the #CongressionalReviewAct is used to reverse a management plan for a #NationalMonument — meaning this trick could become a core element in a playbook for going after national monument protections across the United States.
Take a stand for #PublicLand ⬇️
Prosecutors in Zimbabwe used lion DNA forensics for the first time to convict two people for poaching and trafficking a male lion near Hwange National Park.
DNA from seized parts matched a radio-collared lion killed in 2024, setting a precedent for using wildlife forensics in court.
So so close to 100,000 signatures to end the Guga hunt! Please keep signing: petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
Image shows a space shuttle blasting off, fire erupting from the bottom and huge white clouds crowing the right corner of the picture. A text box is centered over the rocket and reads: “SpaceX has been acquiring land for its ‘Starbase’ industrial city for more than a decade now, devastating nearby wildlife refuges in the process. It’s deeply disturbing that the hundreds of earth-bound species who rely on these public lands are becoming collateral damage in the corporate space race,” Ashley C. Nunes, public lands policy specialist.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed a land exchange between #SpaceX and the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuges.
This exchange will push critically #EndangeredSpecies like ocelots and jaguarundi closer to the edge 🐆🐆
Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4rafBN2
More illegal reptile trade:
25 Indian Star Tortoises seized in Sri Lanka.
Congratulations to all involved in this enforcement action!
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Iceland, Japan and Norway still think whaling is acceptable in the 21st century.
We and our campaign partners are calling on the three countries to hang up their harpoons for good.
Sign our petition now https://loom.ly/V4EwL4I
#whales #oceans #Iceland #Japan #Norway
Alleged last-minute political moves blocked Brazil from securing the highest CITES trade protections for Brazilwood.
The music industry welcomed the outcome, while Brazil denies reports that France’s president intervened. The endemic tree has declined 84% and is critically endangered.
A small, young Mojave Desert Tortoise eats a spiky, desert-dwelling plant on a rocky, red surface.
Starting our week off with a win 🎉
A court just granted a motion from conservation organizations to block ground-disturbing activities associated with construction of the Northern Corridor Highway through the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area near St. George, #Utah.
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A new study mapping online U.S. amphibian sales found 8,500 listings covering 301 nonnative species.
Researchers flagged 44 species with no matching import records, suggesting possible illegal trade.
They urge buyers to choose responsibly bred amphibians over wild-caught ones.
Please sign the petition today: protectthewild.org.uk/gannet-petit...
Imagine your only chick being clubbed to death in front of you for a tradition that no longer needs to happen. Sign our petition asking NatureScot to stop this: protectthewild.org.uk/gannet-petit...
📷 Incredible image of Gannet parents by Zoe Ashdown.
A North Atlantic Right Whale swims in calm blue water, a gathering of smaller animals, possibly fish, around its mouth.
Only about 70 reproductively active female North Atlantic right whales remain.
But the Trump administration just announced plans to revoke vessel speed restrictions on the Atlantic coast that protect these critically endangered whales from deadly ship strikes.
Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4cqNyFA
An alligator floats on the surface of calm, dark water dotted with leaves.
New records show that #Florida applied for nearly $1.5 billion in federal funding to keep the massive immigrant detention center in the #Everglades afloat.
The facility is harming the waters and endangered plants and animals in one of Florida’s most cherished wild places.
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/3MShznh
🔊 Sound on for the ferocious growls of the American wolverine (not to be confused with the Australian wolverine A.K.A Hugh Jackman 😉)
Sadly, their tenacity alone can't save them.
That's why we just sued the Fish & Wildlife Service for failing to designate critical habitat for these carnivores.
On Feb. 24, Mongabay won first place in Brazil’s Andifes journalism awards for an investigation exposing state-run bulk purchases of shark meat for schools, hospitals and prisons.
The July 2025 project, published with the Pulitzer Center, later won second place at the ARI/Banrisul awards.
TRADITION IS NO EXCUSE FOR CRUELTY OR LOSS OF LIFE. A man has died after being gored at the Carnaval del Toro in Spain. These events are horrendously cruel – cause immense suffering to bulls and puts human lives at risk. Join ADI in fighting to end this brutality.
More illegal trophy hunting and trafficking:
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