Dispatches
Engraving the rarest tortoise, and what it did not stop
Serial numbers are cut into ploughshare tortoise shells to ruin their black-market value. Within two years, marked animals were being sold anyway.
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Dispatches
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Dispatches
The people who vaccinate Ethiopia's wolves
In 2019 rabies and distemper reached the Bale Mountains together and the outbreak ran past 220 days. What that changed about how the wolves are vaccinated.
Witness4 min read
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