Dan Stiles
@kenyadan.bsky.social
Wildlife conservation and illegal trade expert, researching IWT transnational organized crime and social media trafficking networks.
Around Amboseli National Park in Kenya, 15 elephants mysteriously died. KWS suggested it was insecticide on tomatoes they'd eaten. More sinister explanation www.seej-africa.org/2026/08/03/t...
The Kenya Wildlife Service, Poisoned Elephants, and the Spin
It would be difficult for the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to craft a more perfect explanation. 15 elephants died tragically from ingesting tomatoes sprayed with cyanide based pesticide in the top tom...
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JGI reports on how Meta trafficks primates, especially great apes. janegoodall.global/reports-say-...
Reports say social media is integral to wildlife trafficking infrastructure
Reports suggest Facebook has become wildlife trafficking's biggest marketplace Three major reports released during 2026 paint a concerning picture of how social media platforms, particularly Met...
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Sad, tragic story of the baby gorilla rescued recently in Nigeria. When will this cruelty stop?…https://focusedconservation.org/2026/07/07/a-life-stolen-too-soon-baby-gorilla-dies-following-rescue-from-wildlife-traffickers-in-nigeria/
Gorilla trafficking still occurring. Kano is an export hub for Central African gorillas. punchng.com/customs-resc...
Customs rescue baby gorilla, arrest suspected wildlife trafficker in Kano
Nigerian Customs Service rescued a baby gorilla and arrested a suspected wildlife trafficker in Kano, disrupting an illegal primate trafficking network.
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Article exposing Meta for promoting wildlife trafficking www.patrolling.org/clicks-that-...
Dan Stiles (@kenyadan.bsky.social)
Wildlife conservation and illegal trade expert, researching IWT transnational organized crime and social media trafficking networks.
kenyadan.bsky.social
Short video explaining how Meta is promoting wildlife trafficking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRn4...
Clicks That Kill Report
YouTube video by Freeland
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A report by several NGOs released Monday accuses Meta of hosting the world's "largest single known illegal wildlife trade market" and effectively encouraging the trade by sharing advertising revenues with users and allowing them subscription models. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
For sale on Facebook: monkeys, rhino horn and dead pangolins
The ghostly white creature curled up on a weighing scale is almost unrecognisable in the Facebook post offering it for sale. Only closer inspection reveals it to be a dead pangolin.
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Legalizing rhino horn trade in South Africa faces many challenges www.patrolling.org/the-plot-thi...
The Plot Thickens on the Case of Legal Rhino Horn Trade in South Africa
By Dr Daniel Stiles Key Takeaways * In October 2025, the Northern Cape High Court ruled that breeder Hendrick Diedericks can export horn from captive-bred white rhinos. The government wants to app...
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Meta platforms are the world's biggest marketplace for illegal wildlife trade and they know it. Profit trumps ethics. www.facebook.com/reel/3899146...
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Meta platforms are the single biggest marketplace for illegal wildlife trade the world has ever seen. Every year millions of wild animals are taken from the wild as pets, zoo captives or as products and sold on Meta. Meta, change your business practices. facebook.com/reel/101873078
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Rather depressing news from Kenya. Habitat destruction, bushmeat hunting and climate change (more droughts) are hammering the wildlife. www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/magazine...
Kenya wildlife census: Wildebeest and Buffalo numbers plunge in new report
Various species in rangelands are the most affected, says Economic Survey 2026.
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Heading for ecosystem collapse www.patrolling.org/loss-of-afri....
Loss of Africa’s Larger Mammals Has Reduced Essential Ecosystem Functions
By Dr Daniel Stiles A recent study from Oxford University has revealed a severe loss of ‘wildlife power’ across Africa — the ecological energy that drives essential ecosystem functions such as nutrie...
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Should 80 hippos from Colombia be shipped to Vantara in India? www.youtube.com/watch?v=daHw...
Some 'cocaine hippos' from Colombia could have a new home at a controversial zoo in India
YouTube video by NBC News
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Taking aim at Meta, the biggest facilitator of online illegal wildlife trafficking in the Metaverse. Click to see the press release. www.freeland.org/newsroom/pre...
PRESS RELEASE: April 2, 2026 - META Continues to Host Wildlife and Exotic Pet Traffickers & Exploiters
(Nairobi) A growing coalition is amassing evidence from each corner of the globe showing that traffickers in wild animals and exotic pets, as well as poachers, are using Meta’s social media...
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Bill Clinton has made an intelligent, cogent, informed analysis on the current Iran war from lead up to implications for the future of the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U23x...
"Trump PANICS As NATO Allies LAUGH In His Face Over Hormuz!" | Bill Clinton
YouTube video by Somvati Rana
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As a follow-up, an NGO is now working to implement the recommendations #Plantist www.plantist.org/strategy/int...
#Plantist / Strategy / Intelligence Communities
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Dan Stiles@kenyadan.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe Starmer government is suppressing its own report www.patrolling.org/global-biodi...
The Starmer government is suppressing its own report www.patrolling.org/global-biodi...
Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security
By Dr Daniel Stiles On 20 January 2026, the UK government released a report entitled Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security. While aimed at raising awareness about threats...
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India defies the CITES Secretariat's order to cease the issuing of Appendix I import permits until their due diligence practices could be reviewed at SC 81 (in about a year). They will continue to allow Vantara to import endangered species animals from suspect sources cites.org/sites/defaul...
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Vantara is hovering up big cats for Anant's private collection www.patrolling.org/where-have-a....
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The Indian CITES MA has been reprimanded by the Secretariat for not practicing proper due diligence in verifying that animal imports to Vantara conform with the regulations. India must report back on what measures they plan to take to rectify the situation cites.org/.../files/do...
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As I suspected, the India Supreme Court so-called investigation of Vantara, the zoo that has been accused of trafficking thousands of wild animals, was a greenwashing sham. economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/s...
Supreme Court appointed SIT gives clean chit to Vantara
The Supreme Court-appointed SIT has cleared Vantara, a zoological rescue and rehabilitation center in Gujarat, of any wrongdoing. The apex court bench, after reviewing the SIT report, noted the author...
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A new article on Vantara funny business just out. currencynews.co.za/exposed-the-...
Exposed: The big business of selling South Africa’s big cats to Ambani’s Indian mega-zoo - Currency News
The zoo – run by the son of India’s richest man – is under investigation for claims its animals have been bought illegally.
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Klaus Sparwasser’s film “System Change – A Story of Growing Resistance” will officially go online on July 24, 2025 – right on time for Earth Overshoot Day, the day when humanity has used up all the natural resources the planet can regenerate in a year. 🌐 www.systemchange-movie.de
System Change - A story of growing resistance - Film - Gathr
Two thousand cops challenge two hundred tree squatters in an ancient forest in the middle of Germany that is to make way for a nonsensical motorway. The political and legal struggle against the constr...
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EIA worked for years investigating the Lin-Zhang trafficking op a get a conviction. Corrupt president frees them www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Notorious poaching gang leaders pardoned in Malawi
Decision raises concern among conservationists and public health officials, who fear a return to large-scale poaching could spread disease
telegraph.co.uk
I had an article in edit with Mongabay on a huge illegal wildlife supplier to Vantara (~7,200 animals), planned to be published quite soon, and the India Mongabay office insisted it be spiked because they feared Ambani backlash. Mongabay caved, it's been spiked.
Dan Stiles@kenyadan.bsky.social · last yr.Conservationists are afraid of legal action from Vantara so keep quiet www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Conservationists are afraid of legal action from Vantara so keep quiet www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Why conservationists are afraid to criticise India's largest zoo
Conservationists and journalists say they’re being threatened with legal action after raising questions about the impact of India's largest zoo.
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More information in this expended version of the article reporting on irregular exports of chimpanzees from the DRC to Vantara in India. medium.com/@danielstile...
Dodgy deal between DRC wildlife authorities and Vantara in India
This is an expanded, revised article from one published in Africa Geographic.
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Story of how the DRC wildlife authorities conspired with an Indian billionaire's emissary to ship off chimpanzees caught in the wild to the Vantara "rescue and rehabilitation" center africageographic.com/stories/how-...
How DRC's endangered chimpanzees end up in a billionaire’s Indian zoo - Africa Geographic
Controversy erupts over wild chimpanzees trafficked from DRC to India’s Vantara Zoo using suspect CITES permits. NGOs demand global action
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