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Five years ago I met an anteater that changed my life. As a first-year grad student, I was in the midst of my academic identity crisis trying to figure out what exactly I was going to study. I joined a team of researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical...

Cape Town is known for many things: its downtown grid of skyscrapers, its painful political and social history of apartheid, the thick network of shacks and homes that make up its townships, its magnificent landscapes and greenery its mountainous backdrop...

Elephants in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Credit: Malini Shankar/IPS By Ramy Srour WASHINGTON, Feb 10 2014 (IPS) A group of international organisations fighting illicit wildlife trafficking has unveiled a new website aimed at assisting whistleblowers...

An eye-opening glimpse into an anti-poaching boot camp and the man behind it. We were welcomed to the Nkwe Anti-Poaching camp by two rather plump lazy looking Jack Russell dogs and a teeny tiny scruffy little thing full of wags and wiggles. These three...

Anthropocene defaunation is the global phenomenon of human-induced animal biodiversity loss. Understanding the patterns and process of defaunation is critical to predict outcomes for wildlife populations and cascading consequences for ecosystem function...