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...
Mariana Balt, The Lowvelder They aim to prevent poaching by prohibiting suspects from entering the park as well as follow up on incidents as efficiently as possible. When four out of six elephant carcasses discovered north of the Olifants River in the Kruger National...
Jane Flanagan, The Times Thirty-five young elephants are to be flown from Zimbabwe to zoos in China after being forcibly separated from their mothers in an operation “designed to disorientate, exhaust and subdue” them. The animals, some as young as two, are being held...
Par Ibrahima Adama, à Maroua | Actucameroun.com Près de 15 hectares de champs déjà dévastés, les populations des localités situées sur leur couloir de passage craignent le pire. C’est le qui vive pour les populations des arrondissements de Kar-Hay et de Wina dans...
Research conducted in the Knysna forest has captured what may be the last elephant roaming the area. The latest Knysna elephant survey by South African National Parks (SANParks) captured the presence of a female elephant in the forest. Using camera-trap...
By The Maravi Post The Nkhotakota first grade magistrate court on Tuesday, February convicted and sentenced two men to serve jail term of 14 and 12 years for illegally possessing ivory in Nkhotakota district. The two convincts Master Banda, 47, and Philmon...
Tsuyoshi Kawamura, The Asahi Shimbun Japan has come under more pressure to shut down its ivory market once and for all to combat elephant poaching. A draft resolution under the Washington Convention targets Japan and European Union members, among others. It...