A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from a conversation with John Holdren on President Donald Trump's approach to science to a feature on innovative tracking devices and technological solutions to prevent the trafficking of polar bear pelts in Canada.
Over the last 10 years, the poaching and trafficking of animal products has become the fourth-highest-grossing crime in the world. But because wildlife crime is not bound by national borders and each country has its own rules and ideas, its management and policing has become unwieldy at best.
A new study shows how technology developed to study earthquakes could help conservationists monitor elephant populations from afar.
A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.
The iconic Kruger National Park is an easy target for the poaching of large animals, especially rhinos and elephants. Those fighting the slaughter say that community education and poverty alleviation yield the best results.
The Chinese government has said it will rein in the smuggling and illegal sale of ivory, but those enforcement efforts do not appear to have reached the town of Shuidong.
In 2005, conservationists launched a plan to establish rhino populations in seven parks in Assam state. It proved to be an even bigger challenge than expected.
Scientists have discovered an expansive network of tortoise poachers in Asia.
As poaching pushes the rhino toward extinction, South Africa considers a radical solution: Legalize the very thing that is killing them. It'd make some people very rich. But would it doom the species?
If online outrage is having any effect, it's unclear.
To try and curb demand for black-market rhino horn, a bioengineering start-up is making 3-D substitutes.
At least knowing where the slaughter is happening means officials know where to try to stop it.
Social media and e-commerce sites are the new battlegrounds for the illegal wildlife trade.
You'll need two Ph.D.s and a J.D. to buy ivory legally in the United States. So don’t even try it.
Until his illegal hunting business was shut down by authorities, you could have paid Christopher Loncarich $7,000 to bag a mountain lion.
As beluga sturgeon populations dwindle, poachers have descended on the waters of Oklahoma, searching for the source of next-best caviar: the paddlefish. But conservation officials might have found a way to save the prehistoric-looking creatures from a steady decline—they're selling the caviar themselves.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says destroying ivory can reduce supply and demand at same time.
Restoring Africa's peace could be helped by restoring its fabled—and endangered—fauna.
Fifty years ago 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why. Inside the most irrational environmental crime of the century.
South Africa debates legalization of the rhino-horn trade to stem smuggling.