By Eyewitness News CAPE TOWN: Police have arrested two men for the possession of ivory tusks in Bothasig. Members of the SAPS Flying Squad were busy with patrols when they made the arrests on Friday. The men were found with four undocumented elephant tusks. Police...
Dar es Salaam Seaport Tackles Illegal Wildlife Trade (Tanzania)
By The Maritime Executive 57 representatives of key port stakeholder groups have agreed on a collective way forward to tackle wildlife trafficking through Tanzania’s sea ports. Specific actions discussed include improvement of risk profiling systems as well as...
Sabah hopes to get more info from Indonesia on smuggled jumbo tusks
By The Star Online KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is hoping to get more details from its Indonesian counterparts on how an estate worker managed to buy 10 elephant tusks in Lahad Datu and smuggled them out of the state. Sabah Wildlife Department director Augustine Tuuga said...
De Beers Group Progresses Pioneering ‘Moving Giants’ Elephant Conservation Initiative in Africa
By Diamond World News Service Second tranche of elephants moved from South Africa to Zinave National Park in Mozambique in world’s longest elephant translocation De Beers Group announced that the second translocation of elephants from its Venetia Limpopo Nature...
Man arrested for trying to smuggle elephant tusks from Malaysia
By Dyaning Pangestika, The Jakarta Post he authorities in Nunukan, North Kalimantan, have arrested a 54-year-old man for allegedly trying to smuggle 10 elephant tusks from Malaysia. Investigators from the Kalimantan Law Enforcement Center (Gakkum) foiled the smuggling...
Namibia to develop national elephant management plan
By Xinhua WINDHOEK: Namibia seeks to develop a national elephant management plan to oversee the country's elephant population pegged at an estimated 24,000, according to the country's Ministry of Environment and Tourism. A holistic vision and plan for the national...
Ivory trade a possibility: Mupfumira (Zimbabwe)
By Nyasha Chingono - The Independent TOURISM minister Prisca Mupfumira is upbeat that Zimbabwe’s proposal for the lifting on the ban of ivory trade will pass during this year’s Conference of the Parties (Cop) 18 slated for Geneva, Switzerland, in August. Speaking to...
Wildlife Traffickers Use Facebook, Instagram to Find Black-Market Buyers
By Kurt Wagner, Bloomberg Ali Ahamed’s black satchel was overflowing with turtles, their tiny heads poking out. Just a few feet away, on the hotel room floor, roughly 20 larger turtles with dark brown shells were removed from black suitcases and flipped onto their...
Most widespread wildlife crime raid ever sweeps across more than 100 countries
By Rachel Fobar, National Geographic Global police and customs officials have concluded the most widespread environmental crime operation ever organized, involving 109 countries and resulting in nearly 2,000 seizures of protected wildlife, including 440 ivory pieces,...
Two with elephant tusks arrested in Kwale County (Kenya)
By Fadhili Fredrick, The Daily Nation Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), working jointly with Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officers, have arrested two suspects and confiscated four pieces of elephant tusks. The tusks weighing 82kgs were...