By LAURA HAMPSON - Evening Standard With a drying Victoria Falls and elephants dying of dehydration, what does the future look like for the safari industry? “Today we’re going to head on the high route to try and see if we can spot a pair of leopards that we saw...
By Ellanie Smit, The Namibian Sun Fourteen suspects were arrested for wildlife crimes in the past two weeks and five new cases were registered. According to statistics provided by the intelligence and investigation unit in the environment ministry and the protected...
Alex Crawford, Sky News Elephants have been trampling crops, tearing down fences, and terrifying residents - injuring and killing them. But they are not the only wildlife problem. Crocodiles are lunging at people as both man and beast fight over the meagre amounts of...
By SA People MPUMALANGA: Two suspects were arrested on Wednesday and appeared in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, 05 December 2019 for illegal possession of elephant tusks and firearms in Sunriseview, Nelspruit in South Africa. The South African Police...
By John Frederick Walker, The Smart Set At the CITES meeting in Geneva last August, the much anticipated triennial international conference on wildlife trade got off to a rocky start. Over 30 African countries, joined by numerous NGOs, supported a resolution that...
By Guillaume Goudreau, Illicit Trade News Network Interpol has gathered together scores of representatives from a number of sectors in Singapore for the 30th meeting of the agency’s Wildlife Crime Working Group. Attended by some 160 experts from law enforcement...
By Boris Ngounou, Afrik 21 Sustainable ecosystem management and conservation could be given a new impetus in West Africa. The region has just acquired a warning tool in this area: the West African Regional Observatory on Biodiversity and Protected Areas. The...
By AFP A Mozambique court has sentenced 10 poachers to 16 years in jail after they were caught hunting illegally in a national park. The southeast African country has been slowly reviving its wildlife reserves after a civil war from 1975-1992 left one million people...
By Caroline Kwok, The South China Morning Post Over 2.4 tonnes of elephant tusks and contraband related to the illegal ivory trade was put on display by customs officers in China’s southern Guangxi autonomous region on December 2, 2019. In one of the largest...
By Jamie Prentis N-World London’s Marble Arch is now home to 21 life-size bronze elephants to highlight the plight of a species which could face extinction by 2040. Organisers say the herd is the largest bronze elephant sculpture of its kind in the world and it will...