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Banned to Be Free: TripAdvisor Bans Wildlife Encounter Sales

October 27, 2016 — Planning a vacation? Perhaps you are looking forward to visiting a different country and experience cultures, music and food like you have never before. Maybe you want to go to a museum, or even be a daredevil for a day and try something outrageous like bungee jumping or skydiving. Maybe you heard about an nature […]

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CSI: Wildlife

October 14, 2016 — Can the greatest weapon to combat wildlife trafficking be a microscope? Scientists and researchers believe that the use of forensics can actually save endangered animals from their current plight. The site where an animal has been killed is a crime scene, and every article such as a rhino horn or the dust from an elephant’s […]

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Pangolin Wildlife Trafficking Wars: A New Hope

October 04, 2016 — With scales instead of fur, a wobbly gait and a penchant for eating insects and ants, it’s no wonder that the pangolin is one of the most unique animals on the planet! Unfortunately, the illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife parts has made life for the pangolins extremely dangerous. Thousands of pangolins are seized every […]

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No Grey Area in Protection for African Greys

September 08, 2016 — The African Grey Parrot is a beautiful and highly intelligent bird that comes from parts of Central Africa*. These parrots consistently show up on television shows and in viral videos performing tricks or solving complicated puzzles. Unfortunately, due to their social nature, remarkable emotional and cognitive abilities and willingness to learn, many people believe that […]

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Pangolins: Luck Needs More Than Armor

September 03, 2016 — What rhymes with mandolin and is compared to “a pine cone or globe artichoke” on wikipedia? Oh yeah, it’s the pangolin. These mammals have A LOT going on: they’re the only ones with scales rather than hair, they give birth to a single offspring called a “pup” (AW), they climb trees, they dig burrows, they […]

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Jane’s Traffic Stop: The Fight to End Illegal Wildlife Trafficking

August 12, 2016 — Something is not right. She flares out her ears and her tail begins to stand up. She begins to rumble from the part of her that knows what is about to happen, and still fears it and runs. There is a sound like the sound when light flashes in the sky and hits the ground, […]

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Power to the Rangers : World Ranger Day!

August 01, 2016 — The world needs two kinds of people – tree huggers AND tree defenders. Well, perhaps the world needs many more sorts of people than just those two: but most critically for conservation work are those who love, research and share information about natural environments, as well as the brave individuals who protect those areas from […]

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Meet Tchimpounga’s Dr. Rebeca Atencia

June 09, 2016 — In an average day at the office, Dr. Rebeca Atencia may be checking the vital signs of a sick chimpanzee, observing a chimp group’s acclimation to its new island home, or developing an education campaign to decrease the illegal trade of primates. Atencia serves as the Executive Director of the Jane Goodall Institute in the […]

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Calamity: one of Tchimpounga’s first

June 09, 2016 — Calamity arrived at Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in 1991, when she was just four years old. She was transferred to Tchimpounga from Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, along with Cristophe, Jo, Flo and Jim. These five chimps were Tchimpounga’s first. Now, Calamity and her cohort are almost thirty years old […]

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Hope and Recovery on the Salish Sea

June 08, 2016 — JANE GOODALL’S ALL GOOD NEWS: STORIES OF HOPE On this World Ocean’s Day it must be stated that the overall plight of the oceans is desperately worrying. The oceans, along with the forests of the world, are the two great ecosystems that sequester carbon dioxide. And in so many places we are polluting the oceans […]

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