wildlife trade



STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 13, 2020 • 5 min read

Wildlife trade Shut your traps: Snares empty forests in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

By Ashley Lampard • Jul 13, 2020
Following the release of a report late last week highlighting the devastating impact of snares on wildlife across Southeast Asia, the World Wildlife Fund has called on governments in the region to up their efforts to catch and punish perpetrators

STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 03, 2020 • 7 min read

Wildlife trade Pangolin trade continues unabated as pandemic lessons go unheeded

By Adolfo Perez-Gascon • Jul 03, 2020
With the wildlife trade strongly linked to the Covid-19 outbreak, conservationists had hoped that one long-term positive effect may be a reduction in the illegal pangolin trade. Not so, it seems, as traffickers and consumers fail to heed the lessons of the pandemic

STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 24, 2019 • 8 min read

Illegal ivory trade A mammoth task

By Claire Baker-Munton • Jan 24, 2019
Cambodia is playing a growing role in the international illegal ivory trade

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 08, 2014 • 8 min read

Chinatown Vice City: Myanmar

By Sebastian Strangio • Aug 08, 2014
From flagrant prostitution to brazen wildlife hawking, Southeast Asia Globe explores one of the region’s most lawless towns

Jun 18, 2014 • 5 min read
Interview

Trade secrets: Karl Ammann

Swiss-born photojournalist and wildlife activist Karl Ammann has been investigating the illegal trade in wildlife products for more than three decades. On the phone from Kenya, Ammann spoke to Southeast Asia Globe about staying out of trouble and his disillusionment with the authorities’ efforts to clamp down on the illicit wildlife trade
By Daniel Besant  • Jun 18, 2014

Nov 19, 2013 • 3 min read

Skin and bone

Once a key supplier for the wildlife trafficking trade, Southeast Asia is becoming a major destination for this bloody business as well
By Frédéric Janssens • Nov 19, 2013

Nov 18, 2013 • 6 min read
Endangered species

Face value

Vietnam’s unrelenting belief in the power of rhino horn is causing the animals to be mutilated and driven to extinction
By Mark Andrews • Nov 18, 2013

May 16, 2012 • 2 min read
Wildlife Trade

The killers

For more than 10 years, photographer Patrick Brown and author Ben Davies have followed the global wildlife trade and its gruesome pursuit of profits
By Navet Tab • May 16, 2012