China is now the world’s largest producer of farmed sturgeon, but rampant hybridisation in pursuit of high yields of meat and caviar may...

Napoleon wrasse are an iconic species of fish that inhabit the waters around the coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. A...

Chinese customs have recently been posting on their social media channels numerous notices of seizures of live insects and arachnids. The...

Invasive species are making headlines in China. In August, an alligator gar, a large predatory fish, was discovered in a lake in the city...

In March 2015, a 42 year old businessman Li Jianyuan was stopped by the customs in Beijing Capital Airport. Li arrived from Paris, but...

Attempts to establish breeding populations of saiga in zoos have been largely unsuccessful. However, Ukraine’s Askania-Nova Biosphere...

The demand for saiga horn in traditional medicine has been driving the surge in saiga poaching in Kazakhstan where most of world’s saiga...

Saiga antelope is a survivor from the era of mammoths and cave lions. Enormous herds once migrated across the Eurasian grasslands that...

Kirill Kravchenko, a notorious Russian wildlife smuggler, has been recently sentenced in Brazil to 11 years imprisonment and a fine of...

On the 5th of September, 2021, herders in Dorbod Banner in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China spotted a snow leopard wandering on...

Found nowhere else on Earth, New Zealand geckos are amongst the reptiles most sought after by collectors. All of New Zealand’s gecko...

In July 2019, a record seizure of wildlife products by Singapore authorities - almost 10 tonnes of elephant ivory and 12 tonnes of...

Rosewood is the most trafficked wildlife commodity per weight in the world. It comes from trees of the genus Dalbergia, and has long been...

China, as yet, has no law against cruelty to animals, despite calls for the introduction of such laws from the country’s animal rights...

Chinese media reported two large seizures of dried seahorses and one of totoaba fish bladders in Guangxi Autonomous Region. The...

In China, keepers and traders of exotic pets are feeling the crackdown on wildlife crime in the country. Selling, buying and keeping...

Millions are imported from the USA to feed the demand of a vast pet turtle market where wild-caught turtles command higher prices and...

Fourteen critically endangered wild Yangtze finless porpoises were recently captured in China’s protected areas and relocated to two...

Court in Anhui Province fined six people 66,400 yuan (about 10,300 US dollars) for harvesting bloodworms – aquatic larvae of non-biting...

The Chinese media have recently reported a seizure of two tonnes of rosewood at Shuikou customs in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region from...