By Mary Winston Nicklin Presided over by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, African Parks is a non-profit conservation organization that manages 16 national parks in 10 countries. Covering 100 million hectares, it has the largest area under protection for an...
By RTL Russia's defence ministry has donated weapons to Gabon to help the central African nation battle poachers and protect elephants. The ministry did not specify how many weapons were provided, saying only that the delivery consisted of "firearms aimed at helping...
By Denton Daily A near-total ban on taking baby African elephants from the wild and selling them to zoos has been approved at a meeting in Geneva. Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) decided to tighten the rules after days of...
By RAVEN SAUNT FOR MAILONLINE Calf was born in April earlier this year before being spotted by wildlife photographer in the Maasai MaraIt is thought to be doing well despite battling with the intense sunlight beaming down on non-pigmented skinMany elephants have...
By Portia Nkani, The Sunday Standard Drought has largely been seen as a ‘normal’ part of Botswana’s climate, with multiple, multi-year droughts having been recorded since the 1950s. Perhaps this explains why the government has finally taken a decision to develop a...
By Owen Khamula, The Nyasa Times Vwaza Game Reserve in Rumphi has become the first protected area in the country to get an aircraft for law enforcement and patrol exercises. The two seater aircraft was bought with support from the German government through KFW. ...
By The Street Journal Environmental Rights Actions/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA) has called on Federal Ministry of Environment and the National Park Service (NPS) to set up a panel of inquiry to probe the recent killing of calf at the Okumu Oil Plantation a...
By Penny Marshall, ITV Until this year elephant graveyards belonged to myth and legend. But now in Zimbabwe elephant carcasses litter the national parks Hundreds of elephants have died of starvation because of the El Niño drought. In one of the national parks, Mana...
By Xinhua WINDHOEK: Namibia has recorded 51 poaching incidences since January, spokesperson of the Environment and Tourism Ministry Romeo Muyunda said Wednesday. According to the statistics, 12 elephants and 39 rhinos were poached since January. "The complexity...
By Xinhua SHENZHEN: Chinese customs seized around 1,237.5 tonnes of endangered species and related products in the first 10 months of the year, an official said Tuesday. The seized items included 9.16 tonnes of ivory and ivory products, Sun Zhijie, director of the...