By Xinhua, English News CN The hunting of elephants along the Kenya-Tanzania border for their tusks should be stopped to save the giant land mammals from extinction, a group of international scientists said Thursday. In a letter published by Science, an international...
By Dean Balsamini, New York Post Two people have been indicted for selling thousands of dollars’ worth of illegal elephant ivory through online auctions. Between April 2020 and May 2023, Grace Hu and Yincheng Wu allegedly operated Merces, an online auction business,...
By Tiara Walters, Daily Maverick Snares — deadly wire or cord traps set by poachers — have taken an exacting toll on wildlife in and around Kruger National Park and other parts of the country. Among other species, at least 135 of the park’s buffaloes and six elephants...
Graeme Ogston, BBC A woman who made thousands of pounds secretly selling elephant ivory on eBay has been fined £1,400. Joyce Bell, 67, from Dundee, admitted selling the banned goods in what is the first conviction of its kind in Scotland. Dundee Sheriff Court heard...
By Wek Atak, The Tower Post In the 1970s and 1980s, South Sudan was home to more than 100,000 elephants according to Lt. Gen. Khamis Adiang Ding, Director General in the Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism. Today South Sudan’s government says the number of...
By The Guardian SILENT bullet is a new phrase being used -albeit silently- in the murky world of wildlife poaching. The terminology refers to the killing of elephants and other wildlife without the usual loud gunshot sound. This means poachers can commit their crime...
By Charles Mpaka, Good Good Good Police and wildlife department officials in Malawi have arrested two men suspected of having killed an elephant in Kasungu National Park in the country’s west. In July 2022, 263 elephants were translocated to the park, which forms part...
By Constant Munda, NTV The US wants Kenya to tighten rules on environmental protection and conserving natural resources as negotiations for a new trade deal between the two nations intensify. In the latest third set of proposed texts in the targeted trade deal, the US...
By Gilbert Koech,The Star Five elephants have been killed within the Enduimet Wildlife Management Area of Tanzania by trophy hunters in the last eight months. This is according to the conservation organisation Big Life Foundation. The foundation said the killing...
By the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Rangers from across the Southern African region have now established a new community of practice for monitoring and reporting on elephant mortality. Accurate and consistent...