nra NRA chief Wayne LaPierre's wife Susan killed an elephant and gloated as it died. LaPierre himself couldn't hit an elephant. Rob Beschizza

elephants Elephants evolving to be born without tusks thanks to ruthless poachers Carla Sinclair

animals Lions ate suspected poacher David Pescovitz

poachers Peruvian officials seize eight million dried seahorses Jason Weisberger

animals Cameras embedded in rhino horns to fight poaching David Pescovitz

Conservation efforts for the Sri Lankan cats that hunt underwater Elías Villoro

animals Watch the tense moment when a stray dog jumped into a zoo's gorilla habitat David Pescovitz

gentlemen who poach For the first time, tree DNA sends a man to prison Carla Sinclair

law After poacher crackdown, Tanzanian endangered rhino and elephant populations are staging inspiring recoveries Cory Doctorow

law California set to legalize eating roadkill Cory Doctorow

poaching Man faces 450 years in prison for poaching Venus Flytraps Mark Frauenfelder

ngos Report: WWF hires paramilitary torturers and murderers in developing world Rob Beschizza

indigenous peoples Remote "uncontacted" island tribe killed an interloping missionary with arrows David Pescovitz

Science Save The Elephants: How DNA revealed the 3 cartels behind most of Africa's ivory smuggling Xeni Jardin

california Thanks to a Chinese and Korean fad, California's wild succulents are being poached and smuggled to Asia Cory Doctorow

animals Poachers eaten by lions David Pescovitz

mistakes Lions eat poachers Rob Beschizza

scholarship Conservation biologist warns that "cyber-poachers" could use tracking tags to hunt endangered animals Cory Doctorow

health Siberian heat wave unleashes deadly 'zombie anthrax' outbreak Xeni Jardin