By The Guardian Government says black rhino population is growing and also gives permission to hunt 10 leopards and 150 elephants. The South African government has granted annual hunting and export permits for big game including 10 critically endangered black...
By Jeffrey Barbee and Laurel Neme, National Geographic Once, the only marks on the ground in remote northeastern Namibia were the round, flat footprints of elephants; the cloven-hoofed spoor of giraffes, elands, sable antelopes, and cattle; and the tracks of a few...
By Martha Chikoti, Malawi 24 United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator Malawi Rudolf Schwenk says the increased trends in poaching of animals such as elephants and pangolins in Malawi is very worrying and if left unaddressed, wildlife trafficking will continue to be a...
By AllAfrica Officers of Mozambique's National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) have seized eleven elephant tusks in a house in the western city of Tete, according to a report in Sunday's on-line issue of the independent daily "O Pais". The police struck as the...
By Mary Nnah, This Day The Nigerian Association of Zoological Gardens and Wildlife Parks (NAZAP), has expressed regret over the death of an elephant in Kwara State. In a statement signed by the secretary of the association, Dr. Kabir Ali, the association regretted the...
Ellanie Smit, The Namibian Sun WINDHOEK: Police yesterday confirmed they have charged journalist John Grobler and Nrupesh Soni, the founder and owner of Namibia Travel and Tourism Forum, for trespassing. The pair on Saturday afternoon flew a drone over a farm in...
By Clause Masika, The Star A man was yesterday arraigned in a Kibera court for trying to sell two elephant tusks valued at Sh300,000 to undercover police officers. Jesse Mwangi Karanja was arraigned before senior resident magistrate Renee Kitagwa. According to...
By Ellanie Smit, The Namibian Sun Two of three successful bidders in the auction of 170 elephants have finally been made public by the environment ministry, but it remains tight-lipped about the destinations the elephants will be exported to.Gerrie Odendaal of GoHunt...
By Dina Fine Maron, National Geographic Namibia is in the process of capturing 57 wild elephants sold last year at auction, according to a statement today from the country’s Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism. To the consternation of environmental groups...
By Ashley Strickland, CNN African elephants have drastically dwindled as targets of the illegal ivory trade, but the DNA contained within their tusks is pointing to the very criminal networks that poached them. Researchers used genetic testing on ivory shipments...