Rachel Nuwer is an award-winning science journalist who regularly contributes to the New York Times, National Geographic, BBC Future and Scientific American, among others. She lives in New York.
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Our insatiable demand for animals-for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur-is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening the continued existence of countless species. Illegal wildlife trade now ranks among the largest contraband indust... SEE MORE