By Steve Osofsky, for Mongabay Recent headlines around the world indicate that the government of Botswana is considering significant changes to the country’s approach to wildlife management. I give the government great credit for the transparency it has shown,...
Philip Wafula, The Daily Monitor The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) says it has seized 15 tonnes of ivory from within and outside Uganda over the past five years. Ms Margret Kasumba, an enforcement Manager at UWA, made the revelation on Wednesday during the national...
Xinhua Tanzania's sustained efforts to fight poaching have cut the number of elephants killed in the Ruaha National Park from 52 in 2012 to just three last year, park conservators said on Friday. Agricola Lihiru, head of security at the park, attributed the...
Bloomberg News Botswana’s ruling party is in the midst of its worst crisis since taking power at independence from the U.K. in 1966 as a leadership battle rages ahead of an elective congress next month. A political feud between President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his...
Citizen Digital Kenya’s strong stand against trade in ivory is drawing global attention. Top officials of the global Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) on Thursday said Kenya has done well in drawing world attention on why trading in elephant trophies must be...
Jason Thomas, The ASEAN Post With social media already playing a role in human trafficking, arms trading and drug smuggling, it is perhaps no surprise that the illegal wildlife trade is the latest cross-border crime to go online. Long known as a hub for wildlife...
Agence d’Information d’Afrique Centrale. Amadou Tidiane Sall sera présenté devant le procureur de la République près le Tribunal de Ouesso, dans le département de la Sangha, pour délits de détention, circulation et commercialisation des ivoires d’éléphant,...
by Mongabay.com In a paper published in Science last month, an international team of researchers argues that the growing body of evidence on the importance of social learning and animal cultures must be taken more fully into account in order to improve wildlife...
By Johan Augustin - Mongabay The government of Botswana is considering measures to rein in its elephant population to address the problem of human-elephant conflicts.These proposed measures include a resumption of big-game hunting and culling of elephants, which...
BBC News For more than 60 years, the elephant known as F_MU1, roamed the plains of Tsavo, Kenya. She was one of Africa's last remaining "super tuskers" - so called because their tusks are long enough to reach the ground. British photographer Will Burrard-Lucas...