By Don Pinnock - News24 Until about the 1400s, millions of elephants roamed most of Africa except its arid deserts. Today, most of the few who remain are in designated refuges, owing mostly to the ivory trade. Many others are in captivity, in zoos and other small,...
By Agence France Presse Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe asked for the right to sell ivory acquired through natural deaths, confiscations and cullingZimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa blasted the decision not to relax ivory laws saying the money could fund...
By Taing Vida, The Khmer Times The Environment Ministry today called on all souvenir shop owners to immediately stop selling sculptures made of elephant ivory, and rhino horns, noting that wildlife trades in any forms are prohibited. According to the law on forestry...
By Teresa Gubbins - Culture Map Animal advocates around the world are celebrating a victory in the protection of wild elephants — one that could have prevented the Dallas Zoo from importing elephants from Swaziland in 2016. Nearly 200 delegates from around the...
By Rachel Love Nuwer - UnDark Fears that the tusks are being peddled as elephant ivory have some experts seeking protections for the extinct animal, too. Not everyone agrees. WOOLLY MAMMOTHS LAST roamed the earth some 4,000 years ago, but their tusks — fashioned into...
By Tebagano Ntshole, The Botswana Daily News President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi has vowed not to rest until the elephant issue was resolved as Botswana had the largest population of the species in the world which had escalated into human-wildlife conflict. ...
By Capital News NAIROBI: Eritrea has joined the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) a coalition of African countries dedicated to the sustainable conservation of elephants and ending the ivory trade. The EPI was founded in 2014 by the leaders of Botswana, Chad,...
By DINA FINE MARON - National Geographic International leaders have instituted a near-complete ban on capturing and sending elephants far from their home ranges. GENEVAYesterday at the 18th triennial meeting of an international wildlife trade treaty, countries...
By Kaula Nhongo, Bloomberg Namibia threatened to lead Southern African nations, home to the bulk of the world’s rhinos and elephants, out of a global convention that governs trade in wild plants and animals and their products. The southwest African country was angered...
By Sam Nussey and Yoshiyasu Shida - Reuters TOKYO - Yahoo Japan Corp, plans to end the sale of ivory on the country's biggest online auction site, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday, finally joining competitors in a ban. Yahoo Japan will...