By VietnamPlus With the rise of social networks, such as Zalo, Facebook, Youtube, etc., illegal trade of elephant ivories has been booming. Advertisements on non-sense miraculous effects of the item, such as chasing away evil spirits and bringing power,...
By CAJ News Africa CHIREDZI: Security at Gonarezhou National Park has been boosted by the use of new and innovative Spartial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) technology. The innovation is used to fight wildlife poaching in the sanctuary which has 11,000...
By Duncan Strauss, NZ Herald There are no reported sightings of surly teenage elephants reluctantly sitting down at the family dinner table, trusty ear buds in place, occasionally trumpeting monosyllabic answers. But adolescent elephants do exhibit other behaviours...
By Xinhua COTONOU: Two ivory traffickers were sentenced each to 36 months imprisonment and fined 840 U.S. dollars for marketing four elephant tusks in Djougou, about 470 km north to the economic capital Cotonou, local media Fraternité reported on Tuesday. The...
By David McKenzie & Brent Swails, CNN HWANGE NATIONAL PARK, ZIMBABWE: The cellphone footage reveals rows of steel cells stretching along a concrete floor. Behind each set of bars, a juvenile African elephant, their tusks just barely showing. One elephant presses...
By The Namibian Two French tourists who were arrested in Tsumkwe for the possession of pieces of elephant tusk about two weeks ago were on Thursday found guilty in the Grootfontein Magistrate's Court. Allais Benoit Fabien (32) and Marine Petit (33) appeared before...
By Tony Carnie, The Daily Maverick Elephants have been described as ‘nature’s ecological engineers’, and can fundamentally alter the landscapes around them as they forage, damaging or killing large trees. Now researchers are experimenting with smelly solutions to the...
By Megan Stannard - Mongabay A wide range of illegal wildlife products, from tiger claws to hornbill casques, are used to make baubles known as wénwan that are prized as status symbols among China’s burgeoning middle class.Domestic bans on the trade in elephant ivory...
By ADRIENNE CARLISLE AND GUY ROGERS - HeraldLIVE An urgent application to halt the removal of 11 elephants and other animals from the controversial Blaauwbosch Private Game Reserve was dismissed with costs in the Grahamstown High Court on Wednesday evening. After the...
By Mbongeni Mguni, Bloomberg Botswana plans to issue commercial elephant-hunting quotes by December, President Mokgweetsi Masisi said. The commercial hunting season will start in April, Masisi told lawmakers in his state-of-the-nation address Monday in the capital,...