The Citizen South Africa has recorded a decline in rhino poaching for the third consecutive year, environmental affairs minister Nomvula Mokonyane said today. She said significant progress had been made with the implementation of the Integrated Strategic Management of...
By Don Pinnock, Daily Maverick Kruger National Park has been condemned by Parliament for signing an agreement which it had been expressly forbidden to sign by the Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs. Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs chairperson...
By Beth Dalbey, Patch National Staff In 1998, the Detroit Zoo made a historic decision that gave other zoos an opportunity to change how they think about the captivity of elephants — among nature's most intelligent, self-aware creatures. The zoo retired a pair of...
By Charles Homans Despite reforms, the territory is a linchpin in the global traffic in illegal animal parts. It was after dark on a Tuesday evening in December 2017 when the vans pulled onto Island House Lane, a placid side street of residential complexes and...
by Mike Rowse Mike Rowse says the recent seizure of ivory and pangolin scales by customs officials and the failure to prosecute those involved in the record ivory haul in 2017 show that Hong Kong must do more to ensure wildlife trafficking is treated as a serious...
By Louzel Lombard-Steyn, SA Breaking News Johannesburg Zoo claims that Lammie the lonely elephant is getting the best care and that there’s no need to mover her to a sanctuary. Who’s doing the caring is cause for concern. There’s an animal reiki healer, a handler with...
By COLIN FERNANDEZ ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL A scanner funded by Britain is being used to scan shipping container Officals seized 750 ivory tusks hidden in treetrunks worth £6.5millionAround 325 elephants would have been slaughtered to provide the...
Jeffrey Gogo, The Herald Zimbabwe, together with Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, have applied again to Cites, the global watchdog for endangered animal species, to have a ban on the commercial trade of their registered stockpiles of ivory from the African elephant...
Xinhua, Editor: yan A total of 57 rhinos and 26 elephants were poached in Namibia in 2018, Minister of Environment and Tourism Pohamba Shifeta said Monday in Windhoek. He said 120 suspected poachers were arrest last year. Shifeta said his ministry has called for...
By Nguyen Quy Uganda is looking for 18 Vietnamese men involved in smuggled ivory pieces and pangolin scales worth $8 million. The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) Friday published photographs of the 18 suspects, saying that the wanted Vietnamese traffickers are on the...