Stories from the Field
22 May 2007
Wildlife Smuggling Soars in Asia
Thousands of pangolins are just some of the animals being illegally shipped from Southeast Asia to China, police warned, as a meeting to crack down on wildlife smuggling was underway on Tuesday in Indonesia.
30 May 2006
Asian Authorities Try to Curb Wild Animal Trafficking
Asia's regional police forces and customs officials are joining together in the fight against the illegal trafficking of wildlife in Southeast Asia.
17 Mar 2006
ASEAN Wildlife Law Enforcement Network
Thailand's Royal Police and Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) co-hosted a national seminar on interagency cooperation against wildlife crime, February 19-21 at the Nature Protection Training Center in Khao Yai National Park.
11 May 2006
Russian Wins Top UK Conservation Award from HRH The Princess Royal
Russian conservationist, Sergey Bereznuk has won the UK’s top conservation award for his campaign to save the Amur tiger from extinction.
25 May 2006
Police and Customs Join New ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network
(Bangkok) ASEAN officials today concluded the Terms of Reference for a cross-agency, cross-border network that will target criminals and syndicates involved in the lucrative illegal wildlife trade.
22 Nov 2006
Orangutans depart on 'wildlife diplomacy'
Jakarta (dpa) - A group of 48 orangutans who were used as kick boxers at an amusement park in Thailand returned home to Indonesia on Wednesday, ending one of the world's largest trafficking cases of the great apes.
13 May 2004
PuenPa Foundation Appeals to Government to Launch New Wildlife Trade Crackdown
The arrest of an illegal tiger trader in Sakorn Nakon on Monday, May 10th exposed just the tip of a major illegal wildlife trade ring operating in Thailand. WildAid is requesting the highest levels of the Thai Government to unravel this secret network and prevent it from rearing its ugly head again in the Kingdom.
06 Oct 2004
Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Award to National Park Director
Mr. Chey Yuthearith, Director of the Bokor National Park in Cambodia has been awarded the 2004 Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the protection of wildlife in Bokor National Park.
03 May 2007
250 animals rescued from overcrowded zoo
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Wildlife officials rescued more than 250 threatened wild animals from a private zoo.
05 Sep 2006
Customs seize 200 smuggled reptiles at Don Muang airport
Customs officials in Thailand have said they had seized 200 reptiles including rare star tortoises that were smuggled into the country to be sold at Bangkok's famous Chatuchak weekend market.
14 Sep 2006
Wildlife group applauds next week's repatriation of orangutans from Thailand to Indonesia
BANGKOK, Thailand An announcement that Thailand will next week send back to Indonesia more than three dozen smuggled orangutans was welcomed Thursday by an international nonprofit group fighting the illegal wildlife trade.
26 Aug 2006
A Visit to Phnom Tamao Zoological Garden and Wildlife Center
Bati District, Takeo province - The lion, maned and massive, slowly paces a meter away.
He has your attention but you definitely don't have his – no matter how many times you let your camera whir mere centimeters from his face.
01 Mar 2006
Making a Killing
Steve Galster, a fit-looking 44-year-old from Wisconsin who fronts the San Francisco-based conservation group WildAid, has seen plenty of jungles in his time. Take Bokor National Park in Cambodia. Galster and his colleagues train and subsidize its 50 or so rangers, who routinely brave giant leeches and endemic malaria to protect a 540-square-mile wilderness from armed poachers.
15 Jul 2006
If you go out in the woods today . . . you'll be lucky to find any bears
This is a critical century for bears. Of the eight species of bear, only one, the American black bear, is likely to be in the running to make it into the 22nd century. The problem is not especially hunters, because many of them are sensitive to the plight of bears. Rather, it's a range of other factors, including: poachers; traditional medical beliefs, primarily in Asia; toxic waste; habitat loss; resistance to and weak enforcement of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES); and global warming.
12 Jul 2005
Wildlife Trader Under House Arrest
A well-known wildlife trader was put under house arrest with a search warrant issued by the provincial court of Mondulkiri, a province in the northeast of Cambodia, by WildAid Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT). WRRT conducted a raid with the confiscation of 2 Sunda pangolins, 1 Burmese Python, 54 Elongated Tortoises, 9 Giant Asian Pond Turtles, 3 Gaur heads and horns, 7 pairs of Sambar Deer horns, 3 pairs of Banteng horns, 5.5 kg of Southern Serow bones, 18 kg of Turtle's shells and plastrons, 1 Burmese Python skin, 5 dried Slow Lorises, 14 kg of Wild Boar meat, 1 kg of Red Muntjac meat and 1,156 AK 47 bullets.
12 Aug 2005
Successful Raid With US $543.37 Instant Penalty
WildAid Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT) raided a trader’s house in Phnom Penh rescuing 12 endangered Elongated Tortoises, 9 endangered Giant Asian Pond Turtles, 3 Malayan Snail-eating Turtles, 2 Asian Soft-shelled Turtles, 1 Asian Box Turtle, and 1 Water Snake with the offender paying an instant penalty of US $543.37. The operation was conducted through a court search warrant issued by the Municipality Court of Phnom Penh.
12 Mar 2004
Russian Crackdown on Amur Tiger Deal
On March 10, 2004 wildlife managers of Primorsky Hunting Management Department in cooperation with two representatives of NGOs confiscated two Amur tiger skins from a policeman in Chuguevsky district, center of Primorye, Russian Far East.
18 Jul 2004
WildAid Rescues Snared Bear Cub in Kirirom National Park
On the morning of July 14th, WildAid was informed by the Secretary of Mr. Chay Samith, Director of the Department of Nature Conservation and Protection, that an Asiatic Black Bear was trapped in a snare at Kirirom National Park. Also, that another bear was in the vicinity and had attacked and bitten a man who attempted to assist the snared bear. This indicated that the bear in the snare could be a cub. Immediately, WildAid’s Animal Husbandry staff and a team from the Wilderness Protection Mobile Unit set off to Kirirom.
13 Oct 2004
CITES Protection for Southeast Asian Wildlife Through Appendix II Listing for Agarwood
Agarwood, an aromatic resinous wood heavily poached in all of its range states, received strong support today for its future protection through the listing of all Aquilaria and Gyrinops species under Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES), as proposed by Indonesia.
27 Mar 2005
WildAid’s Mobile Unit in Cambodia Successful in Major Raid
Mondulkiri Province, CAMBODIA – A successful raid by WildAid's Wilderness Protection Mobile Unit (WPMU) on March 20th, 2005 in the Mondulkiri Province in Northeast Cambodia resulted in the confiscation of numerous animals and wildlife body parts.
