By Adam Hartman, The Namibian The killing of an alpha elephant bull at Omatjete last week has been highly criticised by Namibian conservation and tourism groups. The elephant, named 'Voortrekker' of the rare Ugab desert-adapted herd, was put down last Tuesday by a...
By Angelina Lue - San Jose Inside I was standing in front of a room of twenty-five 8-year-olds, each one listening closely as I answered a question that many still can’t solve. Even I struggle to solve. “How can we save the elephants?” Before I answer that...
By John Grobler, The Independent Namibia's most famous elephant bull known as Voortrekker ("Pioneer") to thousands of tourists was shot last week by a trophy hunter, ten years after he first escaped the hunter's bullet. The elephant was shot on a “problem...
By Rachel Nuwer - The New York Times New data leave little doubt that the illegal ivory trade has reached the country, scientists say.A dead elephant inspected by a soldier in Chobe, northern Botswana, in September. Poachers, mostly from Zambia, now are operating in...
By Ross Harvey - MENAFN The Botswana government recently reintroduced trophy hunting after a five-year moratorium. It did so on the pretext that Botswana has 'too many elephants'. But a new academic paper shows that this argument doesn't hold. The researchers compared...
By Douglas Mubiru, New Vision KAMPALA: A-52 year-old man was on Wednesday charged and remanded to Luzira prisons over unlawful possession of 16 pieces of elephant tusks. Geoffrey Ouma, a retired army official of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces appeared before...
By Africa Geographic African countries could increase tourism earnings from protected areas by between four and 11 times in the coming decade. This is according to a working paper published this week by Space for Giantsand Conservation...
By The Zimbabwe Independent Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia have been calling on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) to lift the ban on the trade of raw ivory, nine years after the international body...
By The Herald Live The Hawks' fight against the trade in ivory and endangered species has led to two busts in the east of Johannesburg this week. The Hawks' Captain Ndivhuwo Mulamu said the unit's serious organised crime investigation team, together with the...
By Silas Nkala, Newsday Six poachers charged with illegal possession of ivory worth US$9 250 have been slapped with a nine-year jail term each by a Matabeleland North Provincial magistrate. Austin Sibanda (54) of Dete; Morris Munkombwe (39) of Hwange; Shingai...