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Wildlife traffickers are putting up fake zoos on social media to sell endangered species

Animal SceneMay 12, 2020

Wildlife traffickers have set up profiles for fake petting zoos on Facebook to openly sell scales of the critically endangered pangolins. Tech Transparency... Read More...

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For the first time, wildlife summit votes to protect giraffes as endangered species

Maxine LagmanSeptember 24, 2019

Thanks to the latest wildlife convention in Geneva, hundreds of endangered species are offered with new protections against international trade. Most impor... Read More...

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Endemic, Enchanting, Endangered

Michiko ManalangFebruary 26, 2019

Our little archipelago is incredible for about a thousand reasons, but one of the most touted ones has to be the diversity of our endemic flora and fauna. Sout... Read More...

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The Philippine Serpent Eagle

Alex BicharaFebruary 19, 2019

Its coat, a majestic brown. Its eyes, a bright yellow. Its population, decreasing. While the number of Philippine serpent eagles (Spilornis holospilus) has ... Read More...

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Indian villagers throw firebombs at elephant and her calf after ‘damaging their crops’

Maxine LagmanJanuary 17, 2019

An angry mob of villagers in a remote settlement in India attacked a mother elephant and her calf after they stepped on the residents’ crops and damaged it. ... Read More...

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Orangutan kept as a sex slave in an Indonesian brothel

Maxine LagmanNovember 29, 2018

Pony, an endangered Bornean orangutan, was forced to be a prostitute in an Indonesian village for a long time, until rescuers from the Borneo Orangutan Survival... Read More...

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Protecting the Pangolin

Stef dela Cruz, MDAugust 22, 2018

When a marine biology student in Palawan saw what looked like an armadillo being mauled by stray dogs, she immediately came to its rescue—not that the scaly ani... Read More...

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The Palawan Pangolin

Alvin LaoMay 2, 2018

Get to know this endangered armored creature. I was doing my rounds on our office grounds last month when I heard excited chatter among my ground personnel. ... Read More...

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The Golden Crowned Flying Fox Isn’t What It Seems

Regina RoseroApril 18, 2018

Animal names are always intriguing and descriptive. Some lizards, for example, are called ‘dragons’ because they look like the most popular portrayals of the my... Read More...

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The Blue-Naped Parrot

Patricia VegaFebruary 28, 2018

When the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas launched its New Generation Currency notes in 2010, it took the opportunity to feature some of the country’s most prominent... Read More...

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