by Adam Cruise | Mar 1, 2019 | News
MYAT MOE AUNG – Myanmar Times The government will burn elephant tusks and other wildlife parts worth US$1.1 million (K1.66 billion) that were seized over the past year, a senior Forest Department official said. U Win Naing Thaw, director of Nature and...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 1, 2019 | Studies
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum For the first time, scientists from the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and the Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Palaeontology Weimar conducted a detailed comparison of the mechanical...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 1, 2019 | News
Faustine Kapama, The Daily News The decision by Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam to convict the “Queen of Ivory,” Chinese Yang Feng Clan, of smuggling elephant tusks offences and sentenced to 17 years imprisonment has been received positively by the...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 28, 2019 | News
Nancy Agutu, The Star Three men have been arrested after they were found in possession of 13 kilograms of Ivory in Karen, Nairobi. The three are Moses Leshinga, 24, Frankline Lekashina, 26, and Raymond Wambui, 32. They were ferrying the elephant tusks when police were...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 28, 2019 | News
Source: Xinhua Botswanan President Mokgweetsi Masisi on Wednesday blasted Western countries for their outburst over Botswana’s plan to lift a hunting ban and allow an elephant cull. Botswana is “a sovereign state and do not have to be arm twisted by the...
