by Adam Cruise | Apr 13, 2023 | News
By Boris Ngounou, Afrik 21 Four individuals involved in the illegal trafficking of four ivory tips were arrested on April 5 and 6, 2023 in Makokou, a town in northeastern Gabon. The elephant population in Gabon remains threatened despite regular ivory seizures by...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 12, 2023 | Commentary
By Jeffrey Barbee and Laurel Neme, National Geographic For the Canadian company hoping for an oil bonanza in the watershed of the wildlife-rich and visually spectacular Okavango Delta, 2022 was another grim year, and 2023 may not be any better. A hearing in Namibia...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 12, 2023 | News
By Phys.org Poachers have killed at least five elephants in the Sahel state of Chad, stoking fears for the country’s surviving animals, an NGO said Tuesday. The elephants were found slaughtered in the Beinamar area, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of the...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 29, 2023 | News
By Rachel Nuwer, The New York Times It’s a familiar, dreaded scenario in many parts of Africa and Asia: An elephant shows up, wanders into farmers’ fields, and tramples and eats crops. Sometimes farmers fight back, and elephants are killed. That series of events...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 29, 2023 | News
By News Ghana The results of a trans-border survey to ascertain the elephant population within the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) are expected to be made public by June. According to the KAZA secretariat, the data-gathering phase was...
