By Ed Stoddard - Business Maverick On Wednesday, South Africans will decide the political fate of ‘The Buffalo’. In Botswana, regional governments this week are discussing the political fate of the elephant, including bids to sell ivory. Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and...
Xinhua JINAN: Customs authority in eastern China's Qingdao city said Monday that they seized 13 ivory products weighing 277 grams in postal parcels. Customs officers of the Qingdao post office found suspected items in several parcels from Japan through a CT scan....
By Silas Nkala, The Zimbabwe Daily Four men, including a Zimbabwe National Army deserter, have been arrested after they were allegedly found in possession of 76,7kgs of Ivory. The former ZNA member, Faunel Luphahla (34), Alos Savanhu (38), Ndaba Ncube (27) of Dete and...
By Alok Gupta, CGTN In 2014, an ivory consignment worth one million U.S. dollars mysteriously disappeared from a Ugandan government storage facility. A year later, 12 rhino horns went missing from a vault in Mozambique. These are not isolated incidents in Africa,...
By Peta Thornycroft - The Telegraph African nations home to more than half the world’s population of elephants on Monday called for an end to the ban on sales of ivory. Delegates from six countries attended a summit in Botswana this week where they discussed how...
By Antony Sguazzin - Bloomberg The environment and tourism minister of Botswana, the nation with the world’s biggest population of elephants, called for Southern African countries to agree on a common approach to control populations of the animal to counter criticism...
Analysis by John D. Sutter, CNN I know you care. You want your children to live in a world that supports wild elephants, giraffes, rhinos, bees, pangolins ... and, of course, human life, too.I also trust that you've heard some of the warnings --...
By Langton Nyakwenda - The Herald President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected in Botswana today to attend the crucial Elephant Summit taking place in the tourism town of Kasane. The Summit commenced on May 3 and will conclude tomorrow after the Heads of States...
By Tom Wood - LADBible A man regarded amongst trophy hunters as one of the biggest killers in the game has boasted about the amount of animals that he has killed as well as posing for pictures in front of the dead creatures. 89-year-old Tony...
By Philip Mwakio - Standard Digital Three orphaned elephant calves have been relocated to a holding facility in Sera Wildlife Conservancy, Samburu County. A team comprising Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and Northern Rangelands Trust scientists and veterinarians, and...