By The Star Thai police have announced the largest seizure of smuggled ivory in a decade, with nine people arrested and accused of trying to sell 250kg of African elephant tusks via Facebook. Thailand is a major transit hub for wildlife smugglers who often sell...
By Chelcey Adami - Stanford Report Using DNA extracted from dung, researchers discovered that high-altitude elephants in Angola have a unique genetic lineage linked to Namibian elephants, highlighted in a new documentary by Werner Herzog. For more than a decade,...
By Mongabay Historically, conservation has mostly focused on numbers like population and habitat size. However, in the mid-2000s, scientists started to investigate animal emotions, even trauma, when considering conservation success. In a recent Mongabay podcast,...
By CYRUS OMBATI - The Star Airport security at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport has intercepted a suspected ivory trafficking attempt after confiscating a walking stick made from an elephant tusk from a passenger in transit. The Congolese traveller, who...
By Chris Ndaliso - The Witness While non-lethal measures remain the priority, Ezemvelo said culling could become unavoidable if alternatives are not secured. Hundreds of elephants may need to be relocated from KwaZulu-Natal’s flagship game reserves as conservation...
By Bernama - New Straits Times DAR ES SALAAM: Tanzania has ruled out elephant culling as a strategy to curb rising human-wildlife conflict, opting instead to scale up rapid-response measures to protect communities from destructive raids, Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba...
By Tony Carnie - Daily Maverick South Africans are playing a pioneering role in harnessing drones, artificial intelligence and other digital tech tools to reshape wildlife conservation management — and to reduce conflict between people and wildlife. Whether it’s...
By EnviroNews, Nigeria Acting on intelligence provided by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Zambian law enforcement agents raided a house in the capital Lusaka on Monday, March 9, 2026, and arrested nine Zambians, including an individual from...
By Chris Ndaliso - The Witness Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife is considering relocating 1 050 elephants from several game reserves under its management due to concerns about the growing population’s impact on ecosystems. The conservation authority said once legislative...
By Michelle Cohan & Tom Page - CNN Science The Nkangala people of southeast Angola have an origin story: One day, a small elephant walked away from the herd and headed for the Quembo River. At the water’s edge, it began to remove its skin. A watching hunter helped...