Dennis Mombauer, The Daily FT From pangolins to elephants, from tropical timber to birds and snakes: Wildlife trafficking is one of the largest illegal global trade sectors and generates billions of USD per year. Since 1975, the Convention on International Trade...
France24 Botswana's government on Thursday proposed ending a strict ban on hunting, which was introduced to protect wildlife in this game-rich southern African country, prompting conservationists to warn it could harm tourism. The controversial proposals, which must...
By KENNEDY SENELWA In what could be billed as the fight for the African elephant, two camps are pulling in different directions over the fate of the continent’s foremost pachyderm. One camp, led by Kenya and made up of Benin, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Niger and Togo,...
The Club of Mozambique The Judicial Court of the City of Lichinga in Niassa sentenced four members of the National National Investigation Service (SERNIC) on Friday (Feb.15) to two years’ imprisonment each, converted to a fine, for the theft, in 2016, of 20 elephant...
Cornelius Essen, The Guardian Nigeria Environmental experts have expressed disappointment over the inability of the existing legislations to tackle issues of illegal wildlife trade in West African sub-region. Speaking at Partners Dialogue on Environment in Abuja, they...
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS China said Wednesday it backs Tanzania's sentencing of a Chinese woman labeled the "ivory queen" to 15 years in jail for smuggling elephant tusks, and reaffirmed its opposition to trading in endangered species. Foreign ministry spokesman Geng...
The Saturday Star For decades, their enigmatic existence has been shrouded in mystery and been the subject of intense speculation: just how many elusive, free-roaming elephants survive in the Knysna forest and its surrounding fynbos habitat? SANParks has long held...
Ben Lambert, The Register Citizen A second lawsuit brought by a group seeking to free three elephants from the Commerford Zoo in Goshen was recently dismissed, according to state records, although the ruling did not delve into underlying merits of the case and the...
W. A. Demers, Antiques and the Arts Weekly At a public hearing on February 15, antiques dealers, auctioneers, museum officials and others in the antiques trade urged the state environment committee to support HB-5394, An Act Concerning the Sale and Trade of Ivory and...
China.org.cn The Ugandan Parliament on Tuesday enacted a stringent wildlife law that would see poachers jailed for life if found guilty. The Uganda Wildlife Authority Bill 2017 replaces the old Uganda Wildlife Act 1996 that conservationists say was not deterrent. "The...