By Max Bearak The Washington Post CHOBE ENCLAVE, Botswana — For as long as they can remember, farmers in Botswana lived mostly at peace with elephants, whose knowing eyes and playful kids made them seem almost like friendly human neighbors. This southern African...
By Mercy Kahenda, Standard Digital Police in Nakuru are holding two suspects who were transporting sixteen ivory tusks in a personal vehicle. Nakuru police commander Stephen Matu said the ivory tusks transported from Eldoret town had been destined to Nairobi before...
By Andrew Mambondiyano, The Epoch Times Wildlife and environment activists are expressing outrage that the Zimbabwean government is offering land in national wildlife parks to Chinese investors for the construction of golf courses. In May, President Emmerson Mnangagwa...
by Gareth Jones - The Star • Burnt ivory pieces may be calcium and mineral fodder for strengthening egg shells. • Today there are over 30,000, and with poaching on the rise again, the battle continues. Recently we stopped at the ivory burn site with a visitor. I...
By Philip Bethge - Spiegel Online Faye Cuevas worked in U.S. military intelligence for 17 years and has hunted terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, as part of a conservation program, she's turning her skills to fighting poachers in Kenya and saving protected...
By Lugeretzia Kooper - AllAfrica Two men were denied bail on charges of the illegal possession of elephant tusks in the Katima Mulilo Magistrate's Court yesterday. Pedro Mabuku (27) was arrested at his house in Chotto Compound on Sunday after the police found 11...
By KLARA GLOWCZEWSKA - Town&Country Botswana, the flat, sparsely populated, land-bound country in southern Africa—sustained by diamond mining, cattle raising, and high-end tourism—is an unlikely candidate for an international public relations debacle. It is...
By Phillip Orwa - The Standard Chui Safari Lodge managers Geoff Mayes and Suzanne Zwager will use the forthcoming KCB Safari Rally to raise funds for the highly successful “Hands off our Elephants” social awareness programme. The pair who race a Maxxis Tyres supported...
By: Eve IRVINE - France24 Few of us can say we've made supper for a baby elephant, saved a rhino that grew up to hate humans or met a hippo that didn't like water. But our guest Françoise Malby Anthony can. She owns and runs a wildlife refuge in South Africa, a...
By KENNEDY SENELWA The East African The African Wildlife Foundation chief executive Kaddu Sebunya spoke to Kennedy Senelwa on the challenges of wildlife conservation. ------------------------------Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa want the restrictions...