Rachel Nuwer

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. She is the author of Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking (Da Capo).

Leader of Wildlife Trafficking Ring "Hydra" Arrested in Thailand

But like its namesake, "you hack off one head and another one grows back"

By Rachel Nuwer February 3, 2018

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New York Demonstrates Zero Tolerance for Illegal Wildlife Trade

$8.5 million of illegal ivory destroyed in Central Park

By Rachel Nuwer August 3, 2017

In this story: wildlife

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Last of the Giants

The Yangtze turtle has cause to be grumpy

By Rachel Nuwer November 15, 2016

In this story: animals

Yangtze Turtle

The pangolin is the weirdest animal on Earth

A mash-up of a roly-poly, armadillo, and small dinosaur. Why do so many people want to eat it?

By Rachel Nuwer July 28, 2016

In this story: animals, endangered species

A baby white-bellied pangolin clings to its mother's back.