By The Zimbabwean Sharon Pincott sits down with The Zimbabwean to answer some questions about all things elephant in Zim, in 2019: Q1. Disconcerting stories keep coming out of Zimbabwe about the capture and sale to Asia of young elephants from wild herds. Could...
By Apolinari Tairo, The East African Tanzania has revoked a hunting permit for Abu Dhabi-based Green Mile Safari, which runs safari hunting operations around Lake Natron, for alleged violation of game hunting rules. The firm is linked to the United Arab Emirates’...
By Michael Dahlstrom, Yahoo News Australia On World Elephant Day, federal environment minister Sussan Ley has revealed she wants to see Australia’s domestic ivory trade banned. Research conducted in 2016, found 77 per cent of Australians believed selling ivory in...
By Burak Bir - AA.com Forest elephants are allies in the fight against climate change, by helping other animals and plants to grow An unregulated ivory market, expansion of human settlements and issues of governance in many African countries, are hitting the...
By JANE GOODALL - The Globe and Mail Jane Goodall is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a UN Messenger of Peace. My fascination with and love for elephants began when I first encountered a herd. I was on foot in the forests on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater,...
By AFP News Singapore said Monday it will impose a blanket ban on the domestic sale of elephant ivory and products from 2021 as the government tightens its campaign against illegal wildlife trade. The announcement on World Elephant Day followed two years of...
By NINA GROSSMAN - GoldStream Gazette Founder of World Elephant Day hopes to spread awareness, add political pressure. A Victoria-based elephant advocate hopes to end the legal trade of ivory across Canadian borders. Patricia Sims, a conservationist and filmmaker,...
By JOSEPH MURAYA, Capital News Detectives have recovered a hundred kilogrammes of elephant tusk valued at Sh10 million in Nyandarua County. The recovery was made by officers who posed as customers, following a tip-off from the public. During the late yesterday’s...
By Christiane Oelrich - 7 News The export ban on hunting trophies for white rhinoceroses from Namibia and elephants from Zambia should be lifted, the two countries are demanding. Namibia and Zambia's requests will come up for a vote at an international conference of...
By The Kyodo News The volume of registrations surged as Japan's internationally maligned ivory market faced new restrictions effective July 1, with ivory owners apparently rushing to take advantage of the lax declaration system, officials of the Environment Ministry...