Four men were recently arrested and fined for attempting to smuggle more than 5,000 ants out of Kenya. Aiming to sell them as ...

The Kenya Wildlife Service said the four men were involved in trafficking the ants to markets in Europe and Asia, and that the species included messor cephalotes, a distinctive, large, red-colored ...

Wildlife trafficking has become one of the largest international criminal activities, with the black market for illegal wildlife products worth about $20 billion annually, according to the ...

Wildlife trafficking is a crime against nature which occurs mainly ... a wide array of insects have been seized over the years including rhino beetles into Japan, praying mantis eggs into the US and ...

Wildlife trafficking is a crime against nature which occurs mainly because of consumer demand. Trafficking refers to the illegal smuggling and continued exploitation of wild animals, plants or timber.