poaching

Seized elephant tusks

One group hopes to end poaching, WikiLeaks-style

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A new website called WildLeaks is hoping to do for poaching and wildlife crimes what WikiLeaks did for national security. And after just four months, the portal for anonymous information is already producing results.A new website called WildLeaks is hoping to do for poaching and wildlife crimes what WikiLeaks did for national security. And after just four months, the portal for anonymous information is already producing results.

When you buy ivory, you may be funding al-Shabab terrorists

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Corporal Patricia Mututu (left), a 30-year Kenya Wildlife Service veteran, and Ranger Mildred Oduor on patrol in Nairobi National Park.  Hundreds of Kenya Wildlife Service rangers have been shot by poachers in the last three years; 13 have been killed.

Rangers in Kenya are outgunned in the new poaching arms race

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