Your personal cloud of microbes can be used to identify you
8 June 2018
When a person enters a house, they leave behind a unique set of microorganisms that could serve as a fingerprint – and it seems to be accurate enough to spot individual people
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Africa’s giraffes are being slaughtered by Joseph Kony's army
8 December 2017
Elephants, giraffes, giant elands and chimpanzees are being decimated by poachers linked to violent militias in a lawless region of central Africa
Japan’s refusal to stop ivory trade undermines bans elsewhere
6 December 2017
Even though other countries are clamping down on illegal ivory, the unconstrained trade in Japan may offer loopholes for criminals to keep selling ivory – fuelling elephant poaching
People who illegally kill birds of prey are getting away with it
1 November 2017
There were 81 confirmed cases of protected birds of prey being attacked or killed in Britain in 2016, yet the authorities didn’t take a single person to court
A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one
30 October 2017
Legalising the trade in rhino horn from South Africa could match black market supply and maybe even double it, with the aim of driving poachers out of business
Monkey mafia steal your stuff, then sell it back for a cracker
25 May 2017
Long-tailed macaques living near an Indonesian temple have learned how to steal human possessions, including cash, and then trade them for food
