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Sharon Guynup

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Sharon Guynup

    Illegal wildlife continues to slip through Canada’s borders. Experts explain how (opens the original)

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    It is far easier than one might expect to access the illegal wildlife trade in Canada. Chris Shepherd, a senior conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, knows this firsthand. On a recent call with Mongabay, he recounted attending a reptile fair in Canada and speaking to a seller who told him he regularly received shipments of “anything you want” from the U.S. “I asked him about a few illegal [Indonesian] animals … he said, ‘Oh, I just sold out of those. I’ll get more next

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Sharon Guynup

    First Angolan giraffes return to Bicuar National Park after 25 years (opens the original)

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    Peering left and right, the giraffe takes several measured steps down the truck’s ramp. It’s late July and the animal’s brown and cream coat contrasts with a pure blue sky overhead. The giraffe steps off onto the scrubby vegetation and is quickly joined by a companion. With tails flicking back and forth, the pair take their time moving away from the truck that has brought them here, to Bicuar National Park in southwest Angola. They’d endured a 48-hour drive from their natal home in Namibia. In a

  3. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Sharon Guynup

    Reptiles, gold and money: How Australia is cracking down on wildlife trafficking (opens the original)

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    In Australia in May 2026, Yang Zeng, a 28-year-old Chinese national who was unlawfully in the country, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Zeng was convicted on nine charges related to the illegal export of native wildlife to Hong Kong, according to Australia’s Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), the government agency in charge of wildlife. The animals targeted included saw-shelled turtles (Myuchelys latisternum), Cooper Creek turtles (Emydura m

  4. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Sharon Guynup

    India’s tiger success brings a new challenge: Living alongside the big cats (opens the original)

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    Forty-five-year-old Mahadeva Gowda was tending to his cotton farm in the village of Badagalapura in the southern Indian state of Karnataka when a tiger lunged at him from behind. He was caught unaware: He says he wasn’t aware that the forest department was trying to capture a tiger roaming through the area. Before he realized what was happening, the tiger swiped at his face, severely injuring his eyes and part of his face. After multiple reconstructive surgeries, Gowda has been left to live the

  5. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Sharon Guynup

    Electric fences that kill and the Maasai trying to save Kenya’s last giant pangolins (opens the original)

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    Naserian, a giant ground pangolin, lived for about two years in Kenya’s last remaining stronghold for this animal, Nyekweri Forest. When researchers from The Pangolin Project began tracking her in 2025, they observed her threading her way through a landscape where forests, farms and fences increasingly intersected. Each night, she emerged from the darkness of Nyekweri Forest and moved through a shifting mosaic of woodland, farms and grazing lands on the western fringes of Kenya’s Maasai Mara Nat

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