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Global news

The global illegal trade in endangered species is huge, here, external links will show you things that are happening around the world.

2008

• 'Safe passage' for wildlife traffickers, (BBC News, May 2008)
• Joy over India tiger cubs births, (BBC News, May 2008)
• Threats to rhinos continue in Assam; Kaziranga toll 26, (Wildlife Trust of India, May 2008)
• Four arrested in Nepal in possession of leopard skins, (Wildlife Extra, May 2008)
• Kruger National Park authorities reveal they killed a rhino poacher in 2007, (International Animal Rescue, March 2008)
• Endangered pygmy hippo found in Liberia, (Telegraph, March 2008)
• Westminster Council to crack down on illegal caviar traders, (thelondonpaper, March 2008)
• Dramatic rescue for Indian tiger, (BBC News, February 2008)
• Indonesia tightens tortoise trade regulations, (TRAFFIC, February 2008)
• Bengal big cats face oblivion as medicine trade fuels poaching, (The Times, February 2008)
• Super-rich kill bears for 'sport', (The Sun, February 2008)
• Tiger Body Parts Trade Still Going Strong, (Sky News, February 2008)
• African Elephant Countries to Work Together to Thwart Poaching, (Wildlife Extra, February 2008)
• Rare cooperation to save gorillas, (BBC News, February 2008)
• New Poll Shows an Overwhelming Majority of Chinese Public Supports Ban on Tiger Trade, (Wildlife Protection Society of India, January 2008)
• Indian Government Boosts Tiger Conservation Funding 400 Percent, (Wildlife Extra, January 2008)
• Vietnam zoo auctioned dead tigers, (BBC News, January 2008)

2007

• Rare Siberian tigers found dead, (BBC News, December 2007)
• Indian tiger trap nets notorious dealer wanted for smuggling animal parts, (The Times, December 2007)
• Amur tiger numbers on the increase, (Wildlife Extra, November 2007)
• India to step up guard on tigers, (BBC News, November 2007)
• Three convicted of wildlife crimes in India, (Wildlife Extra, November 2007)
• Six of 8 bear species at risk of extinction- group, (Reuters, November 2007)
• Gunned down for fashion: The animal whose fur is worth more than gold, (Daily Mail, October 2007)
• Conservationists 'astonished' by Indian tiger find, (Guardian, September 2007)
• Concern over Nepal wildlife seizures, (BBC News, August 2007)
• Snow leopard furs seized in China, (BBC News, August 2007)
• Holidaymakers warned off illegal wildlife goods as 163,000 imports confiscated, (Guardian, August 2007)
• Missing DR Congo gorillas 'dead', (BBC News, August 2007)
• Poachers kill two more rhinos in Kaziranga, toll rises to 14, (Wildlife Trust of India, August 2007)
• 57 shahtoosh shawls seized, (The Times of India, August 2007)
• Luxury Store Owner Convicted for Wildlife Trafficking, (HULIQ.com, August 2007)
• Four Mountain Gorillas killed in the DRC, (Wildlife Extra, July 2007)
• 'For a price I can get you any animal', (The Times, July 2007)
• British restaurants using black market caviars, (The Independent, July 2007)
• Chinese police save 270 crocs from benig handbags, (Daily Mail, July 2007)
• Wildlife trade in London, (Time Out, July 2007)
• Ebay to Ban Global Ivory Trade on its Sites, (Planet Ark, June 2007)
• Endangered black rhinos return to Tanzania, (Wildlife Extra, June 2007)
• Bald eagle taken off endangered species list, (Guardian, June 2007)
• China's reported move to lift trade in tiger body parts flayed, (The Hindu, June 2007)
• Another Mountain gorilla shot dead by rebels in the DRC, (Wildlife Extra, June 2007)
• Man arrested in ivory trade probe, (BBC News, June 2007)
• Tigers Disappearing From Yet Another Indian Reserve, (Planet Ark, June 2007)
• Ivory sales still booming online, (Guardian, May 2007
• Asian crime syndicates fuel illegal ivory surge, TRAFFIC tells CITES, (Traffic, May 2007)
• China seeks to end ban on tiger sales, (Financial Times, May 2007)
• Seven die in battle as park rangers ambush ivory poaching gang, (Times, May 2007)
• Ivory sales still booming online, (Guardian, May 2007)
• Poaching for Bin Laden, (Guardian, May 2007)
• First Condor egg laid in Baja California for 70 years, (Wildlife Extra, May 2007)
• Chinese tiger farms must be investigated, (WWF, April 2007)
• East African mountain gorillas make comeback, (Reuters, April 2007)
• Smuggled butterfly find in Serbia, (BBC News, April 2007)
• Four years imprisonment for Rhino traders in West Bengal, (Wildlife Trust of India, March 2007)
• Trawler seized with 220 rare turtles, (Reuters, March 2007)
• Survey raises hope for India's Irrawaddy dolphins, (Reuters, March 2007)
• The factory farm tigers being turned into wine, (Daily Mail, March 2007)
• Mexico vows to protect butterfly, rare desert oasis, (Reuters, February 2007)
• Huge seizure of tiger skins, bear paws and saiga horns in Russian Far East, (Wildlife Extra, January 2007)

2006

• Hippo Massacre in Virunga National Park (DRC): UNESCO Reacts, (UNESCO, November 2006)
• Giant tortoises still on the menu - 4 more slaughtered on Isabela, (Charles Darwin Foundation, September 2006)
• Bardia's rhinos and tigers in danger, (Wildlife Extra, August 2006)