By Caroline Chebet - Standard Digital Elephant and rhino poaching has reduced by 90 per cent in the last seven years, according to statistics from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). A survey by KWS has revealed a steady decline in such cases between 2012 and 2018, with...
By Rosie Collyer, RFI Authorities in Nigeria’s Borno State have launched an appeal for assistance from international wildlife conservation experts to safeguard a herd of around 250 elephants sighted in an area where Boko Haram fighters are operating. “I could not...
By Jane Flanagan, The Times Safari tourists bragging on social media about rare sightings of endangered animals in the Kruger National Park are unwittingly leading poachers to the rhinos and elephants that are under threat. A rise in selfies and online boasting has...
By Sarah Koning - Rosebank-Kilarney Gazette It has been a year of much tension and outcry over the elephants at the Joburg Zoo. The Gazette recaps some of our stories concerning the controversial elephants over the past year. In January 2019, the National...
By Alok Gupta - CGTN Several countries have refused to stop trading in a range of endangered wildlife species, exposing iconic animals, including giraffes and elephants, to a severe threat. Botswana, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Namibia,...
By EWN This after the country’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi lifted a hunting ban that his predecessor Ian Khama imposed that made killing elephants illegally. Botswana’s Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism said it would charge three...
By The Free Press Journal The bust comes at the end of a year of big wildlife seizures destined for Vietnam, a hotbed of the illicit but lucrative trade in animal parts from elephants, pangolins, tigers and rhinos. Hanoi: Vietnam seized more than two tonnes of ivory...
By Rosie Collyer - RFI A herd of around 250 elephants has been spotted in Nigeria’s far northeast corner, close to the borders with Cameroon and Chad. It is the first reported sighting of elephants in the region since the Boko Haram insurgency began a decade...
By NOELLE E. C. EVANS - WXXI News Monroe County District Attorney’s office has prosecuted a Brighton resident for illegally selling ivory. This comes after an undercover investigation by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. WXXI’s Noelle Evans...
By Xinhua GABORONE, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Botswana's Ministry of Environment on Tuesday issued a statement of concern over the death of an elephant calf that occurred in Nokaneng, a village in the country's North-West District. "Investigations have revealed that on Dec....