According to a report published in June by TRAFFIC, a non-governmental organization that monitors the wildlife trade, the pet trade poses the most significant threat to otter populations ...

Cafes where people can sit with animals such as otters, capybaras and snakes have become viral in Japan but this seemingly harmless trend that appears to bring animals and humans closer can pose a ...

Japan is one of the world’s largest importers of wildlife and thus benefits greatly from global biodiversity. Japan’s long history of trade in ivory, fragrant agarwood and other wildlife products from ...

Japan has joined them, cementing the private sector’s efforts towards curtailing online ivory trade in Japan. “WWF and TRAFFIC welcome this critical step taken by Yahoo! Japan to align themselves with ...

In a significant milestone for international wildlife cooperation, four elephants from the Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP) ...

In 1994, international pressure finally forced Japan to withdraw its reservation. Hawksbill imports immediately spiked, according to Traffic, the wildlife trade-monitoring organization, as ...

After the successful relocation of four elephants from Bannerughatta Biological Park (BBP) in Bengaluru to Japan, A.V. Sury ...

By Carolyn Cowan A glut of social media videos featuring captive Asian small-clawed otters in the mid-2000s led to what wildlife trade experts term “the pet otter boom.” Demand for the species ...

A ban on the international ivory trade by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which regulates the international wildlife trade, went into ...

James A. Baker III was secretary of state under President George H.W. Bush. Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state under President Barack Obama. As the world watches the Tokyo Olympics, our ...