By NOMAHLUBI JORDAAN - TimesLIVE Live elephants will no longer be exported from Africa, except “in exceptional circumstances”. This is a resolution taken by parties at the 18th Conference of the Parties (CoP 18) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered...
By Joseph Muraya, Capital News NAIROBI, KENYA: Kenya’s resolve to protect elephants has received a major boost at the 18th Session of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, that was held in...
By Phys.Org The regulator of global wildlife trade will impose a near-total ban on sending African elephants captured from the wild to zoos after a final vote on the issue on Tuesday. Following a heated debate at a meeting of parties to the Convention on International...
By Martin Banks - Parliament Magazine Animals rights organisations say elephants “are in crisis” now, with 20,000 killed each year. The EU has revealed that it will soon be introducing new regulations to help combat the trade in ivory. The announcement was made...
By GILBERT KOECH - The Star Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa wanted to be allowed to sell their ivory stockpiles. • At least 20,000 elephants are killed each year in Africa for their ivory • Kenya ensured that the request by the four African countries...
By ALBERTINA NAKALE - New Era WINDHOEK - Minister of Environment and Tourism Pohamba Shifeta has cautioned travellers that export permits for Ekipa also known, as ivory jewellery is still required. He said in response particularly for Namibians travelling to Kenya....
By The Star •Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe had proposed that ivory from elephants in their region be traded. • The Zimbabwean leader questioned the motives of those making the decisions. Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the country is considering...
BY JOHANNA HAMBURGER - The Hill Baby African elephants won a historic reprieve at the world’s largest wildlife trade conference this week when delegates voted in committee to end the barbaric practice of capturing live elephants from the wild and shipping them off to...
By Simon Marti - Blick The trade in live African elephants is to be massively limited. But Switzerland is transversely. Federal Councilor Alain Berset (47, SP) officially opened the United Nations Conference on Species Protection in Geneva ten days ago. It...
By Tracy Keeling, The Canary 46 countries have given people a reason to be proud of the global community. They voted to end the cruel capture of wild (usually young) African elephants for exportation to foreign zoos and circuses. The EU, however, didn’t vote on the...