By Mike Chambers - International Policy Digest News this week that Zimbabwe was selling (or had already sold) 97 elephants to China and Dubai was picked up by news organizations around the world. Like CNN’s: “Zimbabwe sells elephants to China and Dubai for $2.7...
Xinhua GUANGZHOU: A total of 7,746 kg of ivory and ivory products have been seized in south China's Guangdong Province in the first four months this year, said customs authorities of the province Friday. Guangdong customs busted 67 endangered species smuggling...
The Citizen The minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Dr Hamis Kigwangallah says the Maswa Forest Reserve will not be reduced because it has been revealed to be the natural habitat of rhinos. Speaking during the fitting exercise of devices of the Global...
By Yahoo News Is debt-ridden Zimbabwe under pressure to hand its elephants and ivory to China as collateral? Fears of a major cash-for-elephants trade-off have been growing, following reports that Zimbabwe sold nearly 100 elephants especially to China for 2.4 million...
I wish to inform Parties and interested stakeholders about the latest developments for CITES CoP18 that was scheduled to be held from 23 May to 3 June 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the postponement as announced on 26 April via Notification to the Parties No....
By Leila Stein, Times Live Two families of elephants woke up this week to find themselves 1,100km from home. The 16 animals had been relocated from Limpopo to the Eastern Cape as part of the Great Karoo Elephant Migration project of Elephants, Rhinos and People (ERP)....
By The Independent Online Harare, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe has sold nearly 100 elephants to China and Dubai for a total price of $2.7 million (about R38 million) over six years, the country’s wildlife agency said, citing overpopulation. Parks and Wildlife Management...
By Maulline Gragau - The African ExponentZimbabwe has sold nearly 100 elephants to China and Dubai for a total price of $2.7 million over six years, the country's wildlife agency said, citing overpopulation. It has become apparently clear that the population of...
By Deutsche Welle "We are being persecuted and threatened," a woman of the Baka ethnic group in the Congo Basin region of central Africa told the human rights organization Survival International. The organization has been collecting similar testimonies for years and...
By Mohamed Ahmed, The Daily Nation Police in Mombasa are holding four people who were found with 12 pieces of ivory worth millions of shillings. Two suspects, Ibrahim Ali and Japhet Bakari, were Thursday found with eight pieces of the tusks in Mwembe Tayari, Mombasa....