By Yahoo Finance One year before the start of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games, international and Japanese conservation organizations are appealing to Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike to ban the sale of ivory in the city. Japan boasts the world’s largest legal domestic ivory...
By John C. Cannon - Mongabay In 2018, the government of the Republic of Congo opened up several blocks of land for oil exploration overlapping with important peatlands and a celebrated national park.According to a government website, the French oil company Total holds...
By Journal du Cameroun Botswana is lobbying Kenya in an effort to convince the East African country to change its position and support ivory trade at the forthcoming Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) meeting...
By Vanessa Liu - The Straits Times SINGAPORE - A record 8.8 tonnes of elephant ivory was seized from three containers on Sunday night (July 21) in what is believed to be the largest seizure that the world has seen in recent years. The ivory is estimated to have...
By Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP - Palisades Hudson Financial Group Listing a long-gone species as “endangered” seems like the ultimate case of locking the paddock gate after the velociraptor has torn up the control room. But in a recent case, the action may make a certain...
By Kennedy Waziri - Kenya News Agency Kenya will not allow trade in wild fauna and flora, Cabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife (CS), Najib Balala has said. “This is the message the country is carrying to the forthcoming Convention on International Trade...
by Okeri Ngutjinazo - The Namibian THE environment ministry has spent N$16,4 million on human-wildlife conflict cases in the past 10 years. This was revealed last Wednesday by Richard Fryer, chief control warden in human-wildlife conflict management (HWCM) and...
By Orji Sunday, Mongabay Nigeria’s Omo Forest Reserve provides important habitat for animals such as forest elephants, as well as drinking water for the city of Lagos.But the reserve has been severely deforested, losing more than 7 percent of its tree cover over the...
By Taylor Mooney, CBS News Trophy hunters have repeatedly sparked outrage by posting pictures of their kills on social media. Images of Tess Talley standing in front of the giraffe she shot, or Walter Palmer with a dead Cecil the lion, readily come to mind. Around 80%...
By Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa If you’ve watched the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) hosted by Egypt over the past month, you’ll likely have heard nicknames of the continent’s soccer teams. They range from being literal like South Africa’s Bafana Bafana which translates...