Myanmar supports some of the last refuges of rare and threatened species, such as tigers, leopards and pangolins, but lax law enforcement and porous borders make it a hotbed of illegal wildlife ...

Smokes and flames billow from burning elephant ivory during a destruction ceremony of confiscated elephant ivory and wildlife parts in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018.

Myanmar authorities destroyed hundreds of seized elephant tusks, pangolin scales and other animal parts, worth a total of $1.3 million on the black market, on Thursday as part of a crackdown on ...

Yangon, Myanmar (3 March) - The Karen Wildlife Conservation Initiative (KWCI), with financial support from WWF and other partners, have conducted six camera traps surveys in the hill forests of ...

Ma Saw, a white-collar worker living in Yangon, Myanmar, was browsing the internet on her phone after a long day at work when her eyes caught a post of an infant macaque “for sale” in a public ...

Long-threaded catfish are "caught and sold as a food fish in Myanmar," researchers said. During their 2007 surveys, the team saw "considerable quantities" of these catfish being sold at a fish market.

These photos provide evidence that these elusive big cats still persist in the region,” the organization wrote in a Facebook ...