By Obidike Okafor - Business Day In the forests of Borno State, a new and dangerous trade is quietly fueling Nigeria’s Boko problem: warthog ivory.While elephant tusks have long dominated the illicit wildlife trade, insurgent groups like Boko Haram and ISWAP have...
By Pindula The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has confirmed the arrest of nine suspects in two separate sting operations in Cranborne, Harare, and Victoria Falls, leading to the recovery of over 40 pieces of raw ivory and pangolin scales. ZRP National Spokesperson...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick Elephants don’t respect land ownership and without restraints they roam. But with bad fencing and a growing herd, a showdown was inevitable. In a heated and emotionally charged session of the South African Parliament’s Portfolio...
By Julia Evans - Daily Maverick South African National Parks has moved 42 elephants within Addo Elephant National Park as part of efforts to expand their range and restore natural ecological processes. Kabouga, a three-month-old baby elephant, will spend the rest of...
By Obert Siamilandu - NewsDay SOUTHERN Africa countries have been urged to present a united front towards the lifting of the ivory trade ban at the upcoming Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The CITES meeting is...
By Patrick Greenfield - The GuardianThousands have been displaced and conservation work halted as series of killings jeopardises decades of work in Niassa, one of Africa’s biggest protected areas. One of Africa’s largest protected areas has been shaken by a series of...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick A new investigative report has laid bare the scale and complexity of wildlife trafficking across southern Africa, exposing a tangled web of corruption, organised crime and systemic failures that are eroding conservation efforts and...
By The Zimbabwean Zimbabwe’s national police force appears reluctant to pursue Li Song, a Chinese national allegedly at the centre of a poaching network that uses the deadly chemical cyanide to kill animals in the country’s game reserves. Li was arrested in 2024 by...
By Julienne Du Toit - Daily Maverick Hundreds of years ago, the Eastern Cape was full of elephants. By 1931, there were only 11 left. Now their numbers are expanding again, even along their long-forgotten tracks through the Karoo. There are few experiences more joyful...
By Anayo Ezugwu - New Telegraph Deforestation is one of the challenges facing tropical forests in Nigeria. This activity has endangered many wild animal species such as chimpanzees, elephants and white-throated guenon monkeys. Omo Forest Reserve in Ogun State is one...