Comments on: Book review – Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking

By: Book review – Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:41:12 +0000

[…] farmer and speaks to some of the same people that Rachel Love Nuwer interviewed for her 2018 book Poached. Little seems to have improved in the intervening years, […]

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By: Book review – Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 16:18:08 +0000

[…] that they are trying to cover up an animal leak? Illegal wildlife trade is flourishing in China and poaching is rife; law enforcement has been knowingly turning a blind eye to the sale and slaughter of wild […]

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By: Book review – Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:34:39 +0000

[…] via animals sold in wildlife markets. Then there was the early red herring of pangolins. These are poached for their scales that are an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine. Researchers initially […]

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By: Book review – On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:59:25 +0000

[…] by western colonialists in Africa and Asia. The last chapter highlights the ongoing threats of poaching and wildlife trafficking (particularly slamming tiger farms in China and the canned lion hunting […]

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By: Book review – A Book of Rather Strange Animals: Highlighting the Wonders of Evolution and the Extraordinary Diversity of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 09 May 2020 14:55:46 +0000

[…] the pages of this blog before. There is the nearly extinct small cetacean called the vaquita, the heavily-poached pangolin, and the always popular mantis shrimp, now well-known for packing an incredibly powerful punch with […]

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By: Book review – Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:21:07 +0000

[…] wet markets in Asia where a wide range of poached animals are traded and slaughtered. Nuwer’s Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking highlighted the exotic tastes and conspicuous consumption by wealthy diners as one of several […]

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By: Book review – A Book of Rather Strange Animals: Highlighting the Wonders of Evolution and the Extraordinary Diversity of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:18:30 +0000

[…] Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez), the heavily-poached pangolin (see my review of Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking), and the always popular mantis shrimp, now well-known for packing an incredibly powerful punch […]

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By: Book review – Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:48:01 +0000

[…] and other such quackery, which fuels a rich trade in animal body parts (see also Nuwer’s Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking or Orenstein’s Ivory, Horn and Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis). […]

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