Ants need urgent protections from global trade, conservationists say

Mongabay
Jan 13, 2026, 9:25 pm235 pts
As the recent seizure of more than 5,000 endemic ants in Kenya reveals, ants have become part of a thriving global wildlife trade. Transnational traffickers are mopping up ants from the wild to sell them to hobbyists and collectors worldwide. In a recently published letter, conservationists are now calling for…

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