WILDLIFE

VICE meets up with wildlife influencer, Trapper Mike to see how he's amassed such a devoted following by going on hunts to rid the Everglades of various invasive species.

In this episode of Bad Blood, VWN talks to a former poacher about leaving that life behind to become a protector of wildlife in the very forests where he used to hunt.

Residents of the protected Leuser National park in Aceh struggle to keep Sumatran tigers away from their livestock and homes.

We meet animal rights photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, winner of this year's People's Choice Award for Wildlife Photographer of the year, to learn more about Pikin the gorilla and the circumstances behind the winning photo.

VICE News travels to Arizona and into Mexico to learn more about the possibility of extinction for jaguars as a result of Trump's border wall.

Like puppy love, but with an enormous lizard.

Scientists are debating whether revealing the location of wildlife animals harms conservation efforts and makes them more susceptible to poachers and photographers.

Don't be fooled, horses are instigators.

We also look at photographer Stacy Kranitz's vision of Appalachia, talk art crime with investigator Mark Fishstein, and try the best grilled cheese sandwich in Marfa.

VICE News meets a pygmy community from Uganda who have been expelled from the forest.

Inside the $19 billion dollar exotic animal trafficking industry.

Meet Heimo Korth, the last man in 19 million acres of Alaskan wilderness whose only neighbors are polar bears.