Enrico de Lazaro, Sci-News.com A new species of mastodon that lived during the Pleistocene period has been identified from fossil found in California and Idaho. Mastodons are any species of extinct proboscideans in the genus Mammut. Often confused with mammoths, they...
More govt agencies team up to stop illegal wildlife trade (China)
By Li Hongyang China has expanded an interdepartmental project to better fight against the illegal trade of wildlife, with 25 central level agencies joining the effort. During a conference on Friday, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Ministry of...
The conservation battle in Uganda
Eric Ntalumbwa, The Daily Monitor The idea of conservation might be familiar to a number of people, but the outcomes of failing to create a harmonious living between wildlife and people are certainly not. Human-wildlife conflict has turned out to be an active...
Labor to ban Australia’s ivory and rhino horn trade
Nicole Hasham, The Sydney Morning Herald A Labor government would ban the trade of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn in Australia to help eradicate an overseas poaching crisis that is driving the animals to extinction. Labor leader Bill Shorten says the issue may not...
Tanzania to employ high-tech computers for elephant census
Shadrack Mkandala, The Exchange Tanzania is set to start using high-tech computers programs to count the number of elephants that in the country. It is a modern technological method that takes between six months and a year, and is far more efficient than the one that...
China calls on citizens in Africa: Stop wildlife trafficking
Liu Hongjie, China Daily Legal ivory is no longer available in China. Any attempt to bring ivory from abroad is illegal and will be punished by the law, said Zhou Fei, the chief program officer for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for Nature China at an advocacy workshop...
Vietnam customs seize nine tons of elephant tusks from Congo
By Nguyen Dong - VN Express Customs officials at Da Nang’s Tien Sa Port in central Vietnam on Tuesday seized 9.12 tons of elephant tusks hidden in timber containers. This is the biggest ivory seizure in recent years, police say. Police, border guards and customs...
US poll says ‘No’ to Botswana plans to hunt and cull elephants
by Don Pinnock As tourism is a mainstay of Botswana’s economy, lifting the hunting ban could, the poll suggests, have severe economic consequences and damage Botswana’s international reputation. As the Botswana government rumbles towards the lifting of the ban on...
Phnom Penh Ivory Shop Owner Arrested (Cambodia)
Wildlife Alliance Last month, with information from an informant, the Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (Cambodia’s multi-agency wildlife law enforcement unit which is run with technical and financial support from Wildlife Alliance) investigated an ivory carving shop in...
Two Young Elephants Die Within Days At Indianapolis Zoo After Sudden Illness
By Nina Golgowski - HuffPost Kalina, 8, and Nyah, 6, died after showing signs of the elephant herpesvirus, for which there is no cure. Two young African elephants died at an Indiana zoo within one week of each other, apparently due to an extremely deadly elephant...