by Adam Cruise | Feb 7, 2019 | News
Tsuyoshi Kawamura, The Asahi Shimbun Japan has come under more pressure to shut down its ivory market once and for all to combat elephant poaching. A draft resolution under the Washington Convention targets Japan and European Union members, among others. It...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 7, 2019 | News
Mollie Barnes, The Juno Empire Alaska U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan targeted Facebook Tuesday in an open letter discussing questionable offenses by the social media giant against Alaska Natives selling art on Facebook Marketplace. Late last week, Sullivan said in a press...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 7, 2019 | News
Paul Ampurire, Soft News Wildlife conservation agency, Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has said it will take up the prosecution of two Vietnamese nationals who were recently arrested after customs officials found them in possession of elephant ivory and pangolin...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 7, 2019 | News
Business Day Only one elephant remains in the Knysna forest and surrounding fynbos: a mature female. There is enormous pathos and tragedy in this finding as she is the last truly wild, free-roaming elephant in SA and the southernmost in the world. The finding was...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 7, 2019 | News
Adam Hartman, The Namibian The Omatjete community in Erongo has threatened to kill elephants that come to their area if the government does not intervene in the increasing human-elephant conflict they are enduring. A group calling themselves ‘No more...