Since COVID-19 radically reshaped society, attention has turned toward the hidden costs of the wild animal trade. The allure ...

Humans have climbed to the top of the food chain by skillfully hunting, trapping, and fishing for other animals at scales that far exceed other predators, altering how the animals behave and earning ...

Using four decades of legal and illegal trade data alongside host-pathogen records, new research published in 'Science' finds that traded wild mammals are 1.5 times more likely to share infectious ...

The global wildlife trade – especially in illegal and live-animal markets – is fueling the spread of diseases from animals to humans, according to a new study. The findings show that traded mammals ...

People sell wild animals for food and for traditional medicine — legally and illegally. A study looks at the risks of ...

Wildlife trade, which concerns a quarter of all mammal species, increases the chances of ...