Month: November 2019
Poaching Wildlife Conservation Wildlife Trafficking

We asked people in Vietnam why they use rhino horn. Here’s what they said

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Cover Photo: Malaysia’s wildlife department seized 50 African rhino horns destined for Vietnam last year.  EPA-EFE/FAZRY ISMAIL Authors: Vu Hoai Nam Dang, University of Copenhagen and Martin Reinhardt Nielsen, University of Copenhagen Vietnam is one of the world’s largest consumers of rhino horn, contributing to the continued poaching of rhinos in the wild. Last year in Africa […]
Biodiversity Ecology

In praise of parasites

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They worm into snails and infect the brains of fish. They’ve also found their way into Kevin Lafferty’s heart. He sees them as beautiful examples of sophisticated evolution, and as keys to ecosystem balance. By Kenneth R. Weiss This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine, an independent journalistic endeavor from Annual Reviews, and is republished here under […]