By LIZABETH PENNISI - Science Pachyderms sport more brain cells for their ears alone than humans have for their whole face. No wonder pachyderms have some of the most expressive trunks and ears on the planet. African elephants (pictured) and Asian elephants have...
By Aimable Twahirwa, IPS / Africa.com Every morning, Valerie Mukamazimpaka, a businesswoman selling various food products from Rubavu, a district in Northwestern Rwanda, wakes up early morning to cross “Petite Barrière,” one of the busiest border crossings with the...
By Matt McGrath - BBC News Confiscated ivory from elephants killed more than 30 years ago has turned up in recent raids, say scientists. The tusks were once part of a stockpile seized from poachers and held in sealed containers by the government of Burundi. In...
By AfricaNews In the south of Cameroon, the Campo Ma'an National Park has been a safe haven for wildlife for years. The 264 064 ha forest is home to 500 plant species, 80 species of mammals including gorilla and elephants, 249 fishes, reptiles, 80 species of...
By Patrick Galey, Times of Israel Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted nearly 70 percent in the last 50 years, according to a landmark assessment released Thursday that highlights “devastating” losses to nature due to human activity. Featuring...
By Ayenat Mersie - Reuters NAIROBI, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Kenya's worst drought in four decades has killed almost 2% of the world's rarest zebra in three months, and 25 times more elephants than normal over the same period. It is starving Kenya's famed wildlife of...
By Chris Haslam, The Sunday Times (London) A perilous operation to move 3,000 animals across nearly 600 miles of bush is under way in Zimbabwe. One of the biggest single translocations of wildlife in history, Project Rewild Zambezi involves the capture of 400...
By Josie Clarke, Yahoo Finance Hundreds of ivory items remain on sale in the UK despite a near total ban on its trade having been in effect for months, a charity has found. The import, export and dealing of elephant ivory items of all ages – not only those produced...
By Holly Chik, South China Morning Post Measuring isotopes in a one gram sample can return results within a dayHong Kong banned trade in elephant ivory at end of last year Scientists at the University of Hong Kong are developing a rapid test capable of distinguishing...
By Gilbert Koech, The Star A conservationist has raised a red flag over the devastating drought currently sweeping the Greater Amboseli ecosystem and other parts of the country, leaving trails of deaths. In a vivid and shocking description of what is happening...