WWF (World Wildlife Fund / World Wide Fund for Nature)

Since 2004, wildlife criminals have killed between 44 and 77% of the elephant population in a single protected area in Minkébé National Park, Gabon, according to a recent study by WWF, the Gabonese National Parks Agency, and the Wildlife Conservation Society. Help us stop wildlife crime by

Every day across Africa, wild elephants are being slaughtered to meet the insatiable demand for ivory. Entire herds are being poached out of existence to supply the illegal trade of ivory carvings and trinkets in Asia. The scale of illicit activity is staggering in places like Thailand. Poachers

In 50 years of conservation, we have never seen wildlife crime on such a scale. Wildlife crime is now the most urgent threat to three of the world's best-loved species—elephants, rhinos and tigers. The global value of illegal wildlife trade is between $7.8 and $10 billion per year. It is a major

Right now, in dens throughout the Arctic, polar bear mothers are giving birth to a new generation of cubs. Birthing season in the Arctic usually spans the chilly months of November and December, but as polar bear families grow this winter, so does the threat to their unique and fragile environment.