Myanmar supports some of the last refuges of rare and threatened species, such as tigers, leopards and pangolins, but lax law enforcement and porous borders make it a hotbed of illegal wildlife ...

A new report from WWF shows that trade in protected wild animals and their body parts in Myanmar via the social media platform Facebook rose by 74% in 2021 compared to the previous year.

Myanmar's Natural Resources Ministry said the ... 1,544 different horns and 25 wildlife skins. It said the parts were destroyed to raise public awareness about the illegal wildlife trade, to ...

Monks overlook the city of Mong La, where many Chinese cross the border into Myanmar for gambling, prostitution, and illegal wildlife products. Photograph by Taylor Weidman, Getty Images Such ...

A trader shows off the skin of a small cat at a market in Mong La, Shan State, Myanmar, on May 14, 2014. Credit: Sebastian Strangio The illegal online trade in endangered wildlife has boomed in ...

A major wildlife market Welcome to Mong La, the de facto capital of “Special Region No 4”, a sliver of territory along the Chinese border in Myanmar’s eastern Shan State. In recent years ...

Myanmar, which lies in the notorious "Golden Triangle" region bordering Thailand and Laos, is at the heart of the global trade in illicit wildlife, with goods smuggled mostly to China. A report by ...

Edwin Wiek, the founder of the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, said he expected investors seeking to establish tiger farms in Myanmar would obtain animals from China and Laos, where ...

The people who live in this unofficial, effectively autonomous state within Myanmar used to be called the Wild Wa, and as the BBC's Jonah Fisher found, drugs, money and the wildlife trade are ...

A report by the World Wildlife Fund shows illegal purchases of wildlife online are growing in Myanmar in a threat both to public health and to endangered species. The report issued Friday found ...

BANGKOK – Wildlife trafficking officials say they have reached a preliminary agreement with an ethnic minority group in Myanmar to close down markets where hundreds of poached tigers from across ...