(This article was originally published by National Geographic on July 6, 2014.) THE THREE-WEEK-OLD CARCASS in Kenya’s East Tsavo National Park is hardly identifiable as an elephant anymore. Gone are the hallmark tusks and expressive trunk; the elephant’s entire face has been hacked off. The perpetrators used a machine gun, said Eric Sagwe, who leads a […]

(This article was originally published by National Geographic on June 26, 2104.) A GLOBAL INDUSTRY in so-called environmental crime—which includes everything from selling elephant ivory to illegal fishing to illicit logging and more—is worth between $70 billion and $213 billion a year and largely finances criminal, militia, and terrorist groups, according to a report released Tuesday […]

(This article was published by National Geographic on March 13, 2014.) ON A COLD and dry December Friday, Zach Hauser is getting ready for a weekend of hunting. The next morning at about 4 a.m., he and a handful of friends will make a nearly three-hour uphill trek into the Arizona woods. There they will tread […]

(This article was published by National Geographic on February 13, 2014.) IN THE SMALL town of Fraser, Colorado, a bronze Dwight D. Eisenhower is having a good day: Fly fishing, he has just caught a trout out of the river and is skillfully depositing it into his basket. The former president is appropriately dressed for the […]