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Photo credit: Zheng Jianping The Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Eurynorhynchus pygmeus, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. It breeds in north-eastern Russia and winters in Bangladesh, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and some other areas of Continue Reading
Photo credit: Zeb Hogan The Mekong Giant Catfish, Pangasianodon gigas, is classified as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. It is the world’s largest freshwater fish and is found only in the parts of the Continue Reading
It has just been released by Thai authorities that customs officers at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport seized almost 1.4 tonnes of elephant ivory tusks, officials in Thailand announced yesterday. Acting on a tip-off, Customs officers discovered 296 African Elephant tusks weighing Continue Reading
Suwit Khunkitti, Thailand’s Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, has been named the winner of the 2009 J. Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership. He is being honored for his efforts to eliminate illegal wildlife trade, save tigers, elephants and Continue Reading
“Was I shocked? No. But I grieved for the grisly fate of those elephants,” says Tanat Suvattanametakul. Last week we made a posting about the largest Ivory seizure in Thailand to date. This is an update to that article interviewing Continue Reading