A cheaper plan to stop poachers: Give them real jobs
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A new program in Zambia teaches former poachers new ways to make a living in order to support conservation goals.
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By GRAEME SMITH  THE first stage in a nationwide campaign to counter salmon poaching was launched yesterday on the River Tay.  Poaching had dwindled as the numbers of fish returning to Scotland's rivers fell during the late 80s and early 1990s.
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he African elephant population was cut in half by poaching in the 1980&#39;s, and most conservationists agree that only a 1989 ban on the ivory trade saved the animal from extinction.
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As regulators struggle to find a better way to manage the region's fish stocks, a Maine group offers a potential solution that should be included in any study of alternative management plans.
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AS the Pacific Northwest debates the Bush administration&#39;s recent proposal to count hatchery fish alongside wild fish in applying the Endangered Species Act - and its new plan to cut
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Working with cheetahs, the world's  fastest land animal and now an endangered species, is a bit  different from treating cats and dogs, but Bertrand Lafrance  felt he had little choice.
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CAPE TOWN British Health Secretary John Hutton yesterday announced new measures to curb the poaching of South African doctors and nurses.
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Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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Scientists show how European fishing policies are driving some of the bushmeat trade in west Africa.
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Bush administration proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish. Environmentalists are outraged. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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By Steve Connor  Marine biologists have called on the fishing nations of the world to end government subsidies of fishing fleets that are plundering the deep seas and permanently stripping the ocean floor of its unique lifeforms.
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Environmentalists are thinking ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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Many endangered species are under threat from growing prosperity in China, where exotic animals are butchered for gourmet banquets, exotic medicines or luxury goods.
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By The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Dec. 18--Hunters and fishermen can become highly motivated environmentalists when habitat for game is threatened.
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The bobwhite quail, which is disappearing in the Southeast, can make a comeback and add millions of dollars to the rural economy if landowners are willing to make changes in the way they manage their crops and timber to protect the birds' habitat, biologists say.
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A genetic test that can be used to determine the origin of poached ivory could help combat the illegal trade in elephant tusks and their products.
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For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn't save Indonesia's rain forests from illegal loggers, land-hungry peasants and the spread of giant plantations. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash.