By DEBBIE L. SKLAR The Times of San Diego The Carlton Gallery in La Jolla, its owner and an employee were ordered to pay a total of $210,000 in fines for trafficking $1.3 million in illegal ivory, San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott announced Tuesday....
by Oxpeckers Reporters Being able to identify transactions involving restricted species, and conversations happening about them, will assist law enforcement in the fight against wildlife trafficking. Roxanne Josephreports Technical process: The Dynamic Data...
By Sinikiwe Marodza The UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species’ (CITES) ban on international ivory trade has done more harm than good within the SADC region, Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) has said. Upon its enactment...
Devdiscourse The lead implementer of this project is British NGO Stop Ivory in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and the Attorney General's Office of Angola. Directors, administrators and consultants from the Ministry of Environment and prosecutors...
Rodney Muhumuza, The Republic Ugandan authorities have seized 750 pieces of ivory and thousands of pangolin scales being smuggled from neighboring South Sudan, the revenue agency said Thursday, in one of the largest seizures of wildlife contraband in the East African...
Viet Nam News Customs agents in the northern city of Hải Phòng discovered nearly 1.4 tonnes of pangolin scales and 20 elephant tusks weighing more than 100kg hidden inside a container shipped from Nigeria. The 20-foot container arrived at Lạch Huyện port in Hải Phòng...
Rachel Nuwer, The BBC A low rumble reverberates from a rainforest clearing in the Central African Republic. Occasionally, piercing roars and haunting wails emanate from among the trees. These are the calls of forest elephants that inhabit this tropical...
Insight & Opinion, The South China Morning Post. Hong Kong appears to be doing a good job in honouring its obligation as a signatory to the international treaty of wildlife protection, as reflected in the regular seizures of imported endangered animals and their...
Amanda Watson, The Citizen The project is in response to increasing numbers of incursions into the park. There was a morbid beauty in the graceful gliding of the dozens upon dozens of carrion-eating birds swirling above the distended carcass of an elephant in the...
By Mara W. Elliott, San Diego Downtown News. Known for their keen intelligence, immense strength, and devotion to their young, elephants are unique and fascinating animals. Like other keystone species, they play a significant role in sustaining the ecosystems in which...