By Asharq Al-Awsat Charles Matthew secures his beret, slings a rifle over his shoulder and prepares a team for an overnight foot patrol in Bire Kpatous, one of South Sudan's game reserves that survived the country's civil war but are now increasingly threatened by...
By Blessings Chidakwa & Sallomy Matare, The Herald Government is planning to privatise the commercial side of the national parks and is currently seeking investors as it aims to make maximum profit of the entity. The move comes at a time ZimParks is reportedly...
By Nyasa Times Malawi Police in Nkhotakota have arrested a court-marshal over missing pieces of ivory which were meant to be exhibits in a court case. Nkhunga police in Nkhotakota police spokesperson Ignatius Esau said the court-marshal, Gift Nyirenda, 36, is...
By Jane Dalton - The Independent The president of Tanzania has inaugurated a huge controversial hydroelectric dam project in a wildlife reserve at the centre of warnings over rhino and elephant populations. Conservation groups have opposed the...
By The Namibian In view of the recent killing of 'Voortrekker', the celebrated elephant bull that roamed in the Ohungu conservancy in the Erongo region, the Legal Assistance Centre has been asked to explain what Namibian law permits people to do when their lives or...
By DM Chan, Asia Times A timely intelligence input by China has led to a record seizure of 8.8 tons of ivory and 11.9 tons of pangolin scales in Singapore, customs officials from both countries said. The ivory packed in 132 bags estimated to be worth US$12.9 million...
By Mooketsi Mojalemotho, The Botswana Daily News Botswana and Kenya are to hold further discussions on the ivory issue with a view to reach a consensus, President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi has said. “We have instructed Ministers of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism...
By Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala - KFGO DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Friday ordered the sprawling Selous Game Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site, to be split in two to restrict the access of big game hunters. Covering 50,000 sq km...
By Carrie Bebermeyer, Saint Louis University - Phys.org One of the last remaining megaherbivores, forest elephants shape their environment by serving as seed dispersers and forest bulldozers as they eat over a hundred species of fruit, trample bushes, knock over trees...
By Lance Witten - Independent Online How many people can say the stability of their country rests on another species? Well, for Botswana, it seems elephants are at the centre of an environmental conundrum, that’s also the apparent centre of a political spat between...