By Jane Goodall, for Mongabay The world is facing unprecedented challenges. At the time of writing, the coronavirus COVID-19 has infected over 3.57 million people globally and as of the 4th of May 250,134 people have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins...
By Chris Ndaliso, The Independent Online DURBAN: The Conservation and Environmental Affairs Portfolio Committee is expected to address the killing of an escaped bull elephant from the Hluhluwe Game Reserve on Monday morning. It is understood that the elephant escaped...
By Pindula News The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) has gunned down a bull elephant which has been terrorising residents of Mfelandwonye Suburb in Victoria Falls. The rogue jumbo was killed over the weekend after it had seemingly joined...
By Jane Flanagan, The Times A baby elephant has been rescued from drowning in a fast-flowing African river after narrowly avoiding being eaten by a lion. The male calf, nicknamed Lucky and thought to be a few weeks old, had his anguished cries answered by rangers at...
By Louise Boyle, The Independent The devastating impact of the multibillion-dollar illegal wildlife trade has never been more acute than in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Illegal wildlife trafficking, worth an estimated $23bn annually, has threatened nearly...
By Daily Sabah As the coronavirus pandemic diverts attention and funds from wildlife protection to public health and global lockdowns deprive rural poor of desperately needed income, countries around the globe are witnessing an uptick in poaching of endangered...
By Philippe Alfroy, Agence France-Presse Under the golden, late afternoon South African sun, an elephant emerges from around the curve in a dusty path. Disturbed, the imposing animal raises its trunk to sniff out the four-wheeled intruder. “If he passes along the...
By Liam Pritchett - Livekindly A proposed update to The Meat Safety Act could include elephants and other endangered animals—often victims of wildlife trafficking and poaching—as "meat." Proposed South African legislation categorizes threatened and vulnerable species...
By Jerome Lewis, Scientific American In the pitch-black darkness, sitting on the forest floor with our bodies so close that we touch, we sing, each voice producing a different yodeled melody to create a densely overlapping harmony. As the hours pass, individual...
By UNIVERSITY OF OREGON - Eureka Alert EUGENE, Ore. -- April 29, 2020 -- Conservation efforts for the African forest elephant have been hindered by how little is known the large animal, according to researchers. A newly published study by a 10-member international...