By Cyrus Ombati, The Star Four suspects were on Saturday arrested while trying to sell ten pieces of elephant tusks weighing 28 kilograms in Busia Town. The four were riding on a bodaboda when they were intercepted by police and Kenya Wildlife Service officials who...
By Xinhua NAIROBI, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Kenya on Saturday launched the East and Central Africa Elephant Walk to boost wildlife conservation in the region. Peninah Malonza, cabinet secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Heritage, told journalists in the...
By Goitsemang Matlhabe, IOL The Wildlife Justice Commission has heralded the conviction of four for the trafficking of pangolin scales and ivory as a “ground-breaking” move that has laid bare the modus operandi of the criminal networks trafficking wildlife...
By Sundeeka Mungroo, South African After many years of rewilding and significant efforts, KwaZulu-Natal’s Babanango Game Reserve has attained full Big 5 status, and is now home to lion, rhino, buffalo, leopard and elephant, among many other species. According to...
By IOL Corruption is the air that wildlife crime breathes; it is one of the key enablers of widespread and large-scale wildlife trafficking and one of the biggest obstacles to effective law enforcement. This is according to the Wildlife Justice Commission’s new report...
By Rylee Kirk, Syracuse.com A man was arrested for selling ivory figurines to undercover state Department of Environmental Conservation agents in a restaurant parking lot in Syracuse, agents said. Henry Chmielewski, 62, of Syracuse, met up with a person he thought was...
By Ntuthuko Zinondo, ZimLive A police constable has been sentenced to nine years in jail after he and his accomplice, an ex-cop and Zimparks employee, were found in possession of unmarked ivory in 2022. Constable Sheperd Musiniwa, 31, parks ranger Simibio Kakomo, 38,...
By Estelle Ellis, Daily Maverick Rangers call her Oupoot, the Matriarch, or Strangefoot. For most people, she has always been a ghost or a rumour, maybe a grainy image on surveillance footage taken in the forest. It took filmmaker Ryan Davy months to find her and,...
By Great strides have been registered in the process of community mobilisation and restoration of Kilombero Elephant Corridor, to allow simple movement of elephants between Nyerere National Park and Udzungwa Mountains National Park. About three years were used to...
By Ben Glaze - Daily Mirror Opponents of the Mirror-backed legislation held a briefing in a Palace of Westminster committee room where they outlined why they believed the plan would not work. Campaigners fear Tory peers are plotting to derail a law banning “sick”...