https://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/poaching/RSS feed for poachingenTue, 08 Jul 2025 12:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-an-ancestral-peruvian-ceremony-is-saving-the-once-endangered-vicuna-180986933/Each year in the first weeks of June, Indigenous communities in the Andes form a human chain to corral the camelids and shear their valuable woolTue, 08 Jul 2025 12:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-an-ancestral-peruvian-ceremony-is-saving-the-once-endangered-vicuna-180986933/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-most-trafficked-mammal-might-soon-be-protected-on-the-us-endangered-species-act-180986832/The Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing seven species of pangolin, often poached for their scales and meat, as endangeredTue, 17 Jun 2025 20:34:39 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-most-trafficked-mammal-might-soon-be-protected-on-the-us-endangered-species-act-180986832/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dehorning-rhinos-curbs-poaching-new-study-finds-180986760/Researchers in South Africa find that cutting the animals' horns reduces poaching by almost 80 percentMon, 09 Jun 2025 18:28:20 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dehorning-rhinos-curbs-poaching-new-study-finds-180986760/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/two-orphaned-siberian-tigers-reunite-as-mates-after-one-trekked-120-miles-through-russian-wilderness-180985660/Conservationists hope the love story between Boris and Svetlaya might indicate a new, successful chapter in tiger repopulation effortsFri, 13 Dec 2024 13:50:32 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/two-orphaned-siberian-tigers-reunite-as-mates-after-one-trekked-120-miles-through-russian-wilderness-180985660/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-first-ivf-rhino-pregnancy-could-save-a-nearly-extinct-subspecies-180983656/Only two northern white rhinos remain, but the new reproductive breakthrough may pull them back from the brink of erasureFri, 26 Jan 2024 19:02:44 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-first-ivf-rhino-pregnancy-could-save-a-nearly-extinct-subspecies-180983656/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/six-endangered-gray-wolves-were-poisoned-in-washington-180980946/Conservation groups are offering more than $51,000 for information on the killingsMon, 17 Oct 2022 17:47:54 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/six-endangered-gray-wolves-were-poisoned-in-washington-180980946/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-baby-chimpanzees-kidnapped-and-held-for-ransom-180980847/The abductors are demanding a six-figure sum to return the animals to their sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of the CongoThu, 29 Sep 2022 16:49:39 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-baby-chimpanzees-kidnapped-and-held-for-ransom-180980847/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-teenager-invented-a-low-cost-tool-to-spot-elephant-poachers-in-real-time-180980522/Seventeen-year-old Anika Puri created a machine-learning-driven model that analyzes the movement patterns of humans and elephantsThu, 04 Aug 2022 14:13:55 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-teenager-invented-a-low-cost-tool-to-spot-elephant-poachers-in-real-time-180980522/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/malaysia-seizes-18m-of-trafficked-elephant-tusks-and-rhino-horns-180980446/Criminals had hidden the contraband animal parts in a container full of sawn timberWed, 20 Jul 2022 17:35:10 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/malaysia-seizes-18m-of-trafficked-elephant-tusks-and-rhino-horns-180980446/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tracing-elephant-tusk-dna-can-expose-illegal-poaching-networks-180979639/The new study suggests a shift in major smuggling routesFri, 25 Feb 2022 20:50:26 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tracing-elephant-tusk-dna-can-expose-illegal-poaching-networks-180979639/