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Pangolins Should Receive Endangered Protections, U.S. Officials Say

The armored mammals are trafficked for their scales and meat.

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A pangolin looking for food on a private property in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2019.

Valmik Thapar, Tenacious Tiger Conservationist in India, Is Dead

He started studying tigers at a reserve in 1976 and became a leading activist in efforts to save the tiger from poaching and shrinking habitats.

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Valmik Thapar in 1994. He believed that tigers deserved nothing less than “inviolate protected areas” in which to live without human encroachment.

There’s an Effective Way to Deter Rhino Poachers, a New Study Finds

Poaching rates dropped by more than half in African reserves where veterinarians removed the animals’ horns, which are in high demand in some parts of Asia.

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A newly dehorned rhinoceros near Kruger National Park in South Africa. The horns eventually grow back, like trimmed fingernails.
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