By Mandy Lee, Today Online SINGAPORE: A report on wildlife trafficking in South-east Asia has condemned “jaw dropping” levels of illegal wildlife trade in the region and urged Singapore, as a major transit hub, to increase the maximum jail term for wildlife...
By Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker The week before Christmas, Richard Leakey, the Kenyan paleoanthropologist and conservationist, celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. He is lucky to have reached the milestone. A tall man with the burned and scarred skin that...
By Tracy Keeling, The Canary There aren’t many policies and laws that come from the British parliament these days that citizens can be proud of. In 2018, however, politicians of many stripes united around bringing in a stringent ban on the trade in elephant ivory....
By The Maritime Executive A newly-released report evaluating current patterns in the trade of illegal wildlife in Southeast Asia has called for a new game plan to combat the problem. The study undertaken by TRAFFIC analyzed thousands of successful seizures across 10...
By Tracy Keeling, The Canary Trophy hunting is a hot topic in the UK right now. After many years of inaction, the government is considering bringing in a ban on the import of hunting trophies. It’s got the hunting lobby working overdrive to scupper any restrictions,...
By Patrick Greenfield, The Guardian Banning the import and export of big game hunting trophies would recognise the destructive impact European powers have had on wildlife in former African and Asian colonies, Sir Ranulph Fiennes has said. Speaking to the Guardian, the...
By Charan Saunders, All Africa CAPE TOWN: Unethical hunting has exposed a community to dangerous, aggressive elephants rather than solving Human Elephant Conflict (HEC). Following the recent killing of a collared elephant, along with four others in shootings in North...
By JEROME DELAY- ASSOCIATED PRESS The 4-month-old elephant was found badly dehydrated in South Africa's Kruger National Park days after hitting the sharp wire snare. HOEDSPRUIT, South Africa — Khanysia did not see the trap set by a poacher in South Africa’s Kruger...
By Roberto Jurkschat, BuzzFeed News GENEVA: Giraffes may well tower over all other animals in the natural world — but in the wild, their numbers are rapidly dwindling, and they are desperately in need of protection. The giraffe population in Africa has collapsed by...
By Titus Kakembo, New Vision While population numbers of wild animals are on a steady growth, the Uganda government whose booming tourism industry is largely nature-based cannot layback as poachers and traffickers are getting better equipped and operate across borders...