Animal poaching and smuggling

Four mountain bongos, a type of antelope, repatriated from the Czech Republic, arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga) CORRECTION: Type corrected to antelope, instead of gazelle

Critically endangered antelopes return to Kenya from Czech zoo

Four critically endangered mountain bongos arrived in Kenya on their way to their native forests after years in the care of a zoo in the Czech Republic.

Zhang Kequn, a Chinese national and Charles Mwangi, a Kenyan citizen, are presented in court for smuggling live queen garden ants at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Law Courts in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

Chinese man jailed for one year by Kenyan court over ant trafficking

Harvard University researcher Kseniia Petrova, 30, departs the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse after being released on bail from federal custody on June 12, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham, File)

Officer improperly canceled visa of Harvard scholar charged with frog embryo smuggling, judge rules

Rangers prepare a rhinoceros for transport from the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to Kidepo Valley National Park in north-eastern Uganda, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Dipak)

Uganda reintroduces rhinos into a protected area where they have been extinct since 1983

The Theodore Levin United States Courthouse is photographed in Detroit on July 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

3 scientists were charged in worm smuggling scheme. Lawyers say China helped get the case dismissed

Peru police dress up as World Cup mascots during dramatic drugs raid

Peru’s police have become well known for their targeted stings wearing eye-catching outfits. On Wednesday, they dressed up as 2026 World Cup mascots as they targeted a suspected drug trafficker.

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A rare sanctuary in Congo looks after baby bonobos away from poaching threat

Uganda reintroduces rhinos into protected area where they’ve been extinct since 1983

In Uganda, a vibrant tourist economy boosts the conservation of endangered mountain gorillas

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A keeper holds a Chinese pangolin at its enclosure at the zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, file)

These shy, scaly anteaters are the most trafficked mammals in the world

Nearly 30,000 trafficked animals were rescued in a monthlong global operation led by Interpol

In this Oct. 20, 2015 photo, illegally trafficked leopard and tiger heads stored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Office of Law Enforcement fill the shelves of a warehouse inside the National Wildlife Property Repository in Commerce City, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)

Global tiger trafficking crisis worsens with nine big cats seized monthly

A mountain gorilla eats leaves in the forest of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Onen Patrick)

Tourism is helping Uganda’s endangered mountain gorillas make a comeback

Two rhinos rest under a tree at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, northwest of Nakasongola, Uganda, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

On World Rhino Day, South Africa marks progress but still loses a rhino daily to poachers

Rhinosaurus breeder John Hume poses for photographs at the Gala Premiere of Trophy, a documentary about the complex industry of big-game hunting and conservation in Africa and the U.S, at a central London cinema, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

South African breeder is accused of $14 million rhino horn smuggling ring

Rhinos are seen at Nairobi National Park, on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku, file)

The world’s black rhino numbers have increased but there’s bad news for others

Nigerian customs seize over 1,600 parrots and canaries in major wildlife trafficking bust

A sedated rhino is being prepared before a hole is drilled into its horn and isotopes carefully inserted, at a rhino orphanage in Mokopane, South Africa, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Alfonso Nqunjana)

Scientists in South Africa are making rhino horns radioactive to fight poaching

This photo dated June 18, 2025 and provided by the main customs office Cologne, shows plastic containers holding young tarantulas that had been hidden in chocolate sponge-cake boxes shipped to Cologne Bonn airport, western Germany. (Haupzollamt Koeln via AP)

German customs officials show images of tarantulas hidden in spongecake boxes after smuggling bust

Visible deforestation from illegal mining is visible along rivers near Paimado, Colombia, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Over 90 arrests made in global crackdown on environmental crime in the Amazon Basin

Bhagavan “Doc” Antle from the Netflix Tiger King documentary, center, reaches out to a supporter after he was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on federal animal trafficking and money laundering charges on Tuesday, July 8, 2025 in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Latest ‘Tiger King’ twist finds ‘Doc’ Antle sentenced to 1 year in prison for animal trafficking

This undated photo provided by Polina Pugacheva in April 2025 shows Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist who was a researcher at Harvard University. (Polina Pugacheva via AP, File)

Harvard researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos faces additional charges

Harvard University researcher Kseniia Petrova, 30, departs the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse after being released on bail from federal custody on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)

Government says Harvard researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos brought ‘biological materials’

A pangolin looks for food on private property Feb. 15, 2019, in Johannesburg, South Africa. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

The world’s most trafficked mammal is the pangolin. US officials say it’s an endangered species

Harvard University researcher Kseniia Petrova, 30, smiles after being released on bail from federal custody at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)

Harvard researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos is released from federal custody on bail

FILE -- In this file photo taken Feb. 15, 2016, a de-horned rhino and her calf rest in their corral at a rhino orphanage in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve in the KwaZulu Natal province South Africa. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell-File)

Cutting off rhinos’ horns is a contentious last resort to stop poaching. A new study found it works

This undated photo provided by Polina Pugacheva in April 2025 shows Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist who was a researcher at Harvard University. (Polina Pugacheva via AP, File)

Judge: Harvard researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos was unlawfully detained by ICE

One of two baby orangutans rescued by police is seen in a basket, in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 14, 2025 after Thai police arrested a suspected trafficker. (Thai police Central Investigation Bureau via AP)

Thai police rescue 2 baby orangutans and arrest a trafficking suspect

A pair of Cape vultures is seen in their enclosure at the Vulture Programme at Boekenhoutkloof near Hartbeespoort Dam, South Africa, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

More than 100 vultures die in a mass poisoning in South Africa’s flagship national park

Belgian nationals Lornoy David, left, and Seppe Lodewijckx appear at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Law Courts in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya given $7,700 fine or 1-year prison sentence

A rhino, front, recovers from a tranquilizer, after a hole was drilled into its horn and isotopes carefully inserted, at a rhino orphanage in the country's northern province of Limpopo, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

Poachers have killed over 100 rhinos in South Africa this year. Most were in national parks

Belgian nationals Lornoy David, left, Seppe Lodewijckx, center and Vietnamese national Duh Hung Nguyen appear at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Law Courts in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants to be sentenced in 2 weeks

Belgian nationals Lornoy David, left, and Seppe Lodewijckx, right, who admitted to charges related to the illegal possession and trafficking of live queen ants to sell as exotic pets, appear at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Law Courts in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, April. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Belgian teens arrested with 5,000 smuggled ants as Kenya warns of changing trafficking trends

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Spanish police arrest two people linked to cat smuggling ring based in Mallorca

A Cape vulture is seen in its enclosure at the Vulture Programme at Boekenhoutkloof near Hartbeespoort Dam, South Africa on Sept. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

Vultures are among the least loved animals. African conservationists are trying to change that

Ousmane Sambou, a sergeant with Senegal's Direction of National Parks, holds up a confiscated leopard skin at the DPN headquarters in Tambacounda, Senegal on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

Many Senegalese seek to tap the power of animals by wearing them. Lions pay a heavy price

Tigers are visible at the Ranthambore National Park in Sawai Madhopur, India on April 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Satyajeet Singh Rathore, File)

Study finds India doubled its tiger population in a decade and credits conservation efforts

FILE -A Malayan tiger walks in its enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in Cincinnati, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Tiger poachers use fishing boats to smuggle body parts out of Malaysia, study shows

This undated handout photo provided by the Turtle Survival Alliance shows staff members and volunteers rescuing some of the thousands of endangered tortoises that were washed away from the Lavavolo Tortoise Center in southern Madagascar during flooding due to Cyclone Dikeledi. (Lavavolo Tortoise Center via AP)

Thousands of endangered tortoises are rescued in Madagascar after their sanctuary is flooded

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