by Adam Cruise | Jul 2, 2024 | News
By Dean Balsamini, New York Post Two people have been indicted for selling thousands of dollars’ worth of illegal elephant ivory through online auctions. Between April 2020 and May 2023, Grace Hu and Yincheng Wu allegedly operated Merces, an online auction business,...
by Adam Cruise | Jul 1, 2024 | Commentary
By Ryan Truscott – Mongabay In parts of Southern Africa, elephants engage in “hedging” by breaking off the branches of hardwood mopane trees, snapping their trunks in two or pushing them over. Consequently, large areas of mopane forest are transformed into...
by Adam Cruise | Jun 27, 2024 | News
By Tiara Walters, Daily Maverick Snares — deadly wire or cord traps set by poachers — have taken an exacting toll on wildlife in and around Kruger National Park and other parts of the country. Among other species, at least 135 of the park’s buffaloes and six elephants...
by Adam Cruise | Jun 27, 2024 | News
Graeme Ogston, BBC A woman who made thousands of pounds secretly selling elephant ivory on eBay has been fined £1,400. Joyce Bell, 67, from Dundee, admitted selling the banned goods in what is the first conviction of its kind in Scotland. Dundee Sheriff Court heard...
by Adam Cruise | Jun 27, 2024 | News
By Wek Atak, The Tower Post In the 1970s and 1980s, South Sudan was home to more than 100,000 elephants according to Lt. Gen. Khamis Adiang Ding, Director General in the Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism. Today South Sudan’s government says the number of...
