By Robin Hicks - Eco-Business Although a public consultation six months ago revealed that 99 per cent of Singaporeans support a ban on the sale and display of elephant ivory, the city-state has yet to outlaw trade in the endangered species, saying the details are...
Xinhua A total of about 16 kg of ivory and ivory products have been seized since January, said customs authorities in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province. Over the period, Kunming Customs has investigated 298 smuggling cases involving 451 ivory...
The Independent Online JOHANNESBURG: The South African National Parks (SANParks) on Wednesday said an elephant, giraffe and a vulture were electrocuted after an Eskom power line collapsed inside the Kruger National Park (KNP). A statement issued by the KNP...
By GCM Rédaction Les 08 et 13 mai 2019 auront lieu, les audiences portant sur la criminalité faunique à la Cour d’Appel de Pointe Noire et au Tribunal de Grande Instance de Brazzaville. A Pointe Noire, il sera question de la comparution de deux présumés trafiquants...
Xinhua WINDHOEK: Namibia's conservation model has enabled the elephant population to expand from just over 7,500 in 1995 to 24,000 at present, the Namibian president said. Hage Geingob revealed at the Kasane Elephant Summit held in Botswana, adding that the...
Xinhua he inaugural sub-regional elephant summit opened in Botswana's Kasane town on Tuesday, with President Mokgweetsi Masisi calling on countries in southern Africa to unite and take an active role in lobbying for adoption of international decisions that allow them...
Adrian Blomfield, The Telegraph It is arguably the Empire’s greatest legacy to conservation, the outrageous vision of a British poacher-turned-naturalist whose misanthropic cussedness would shape Africa’s largest wildlife sanctuary. Stretching across a swathe of...
Dominic Nicholls, The Telegraph The Environment Secretary Michael Gove has said indigenous communities should be “respected and not patronised” admitting the UK currently has no plans to ban trophy hunting imports. Mr Gove says it is a “delicate political balancing...
BBC News Stools made from elephant feet have been presented to three African leaders by their host in Botswana during a meeting on the future of the mammals. President Mokgweetsi Masisi handed over the gifts, covered in a blue patterned cloth, to his counterparts from...
By Kay Vandette - Earth.com News Netflix’s The Ivory Game feels like a fast-paced thriller, but unfortunately the stakes are all too real in this documentary that provides an uncomfortably close look at the world’s ivory trade. Directed by Richard...