By CYRUS OMBATI - The Star Cases of trafficking of elephant tusks have been rampant despite tough laws governing the crime In Summary According to police, the arrests were made in the Kwa Wanjiku area, and the suspects had five pieces of elephant tusks weighing about...
By Renthia Kaimbi - Windhoek Observer Trophy hunting pushed conservancy revenue up to N$30 million in the last financial year for communities in the Zambezi, Kavango East and Kavango West regions, a new parliamentary oversight report has found. The report warns...
By Victoria O’Regan - Daily Maverick The President has also announced that Alexandra Abrahams will serve in the position of Deputy Minister for the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition. President Cyril Ramaphosa has removed Dion George as Minister of...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick The number of wild creatures is dwindling as the ones we have domesticated grow … and grow. A new study by scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, published in Nature, has taken on an extraordinary challenge: to weigh...
By Justin Gosling - Environmental Investigation Agency Malawi has long featured as a key player in the global wildlife trafficking scene. As far back as 2002, Malawian wildlife trafficking networks were heavily implicated when Singaporean officials intercepted 6.2...
By Patrick Greenfield - The Guardian Human-wildlife conflict has now overtaken poaching as a cause of fatalities – and is deadly for people too. Some villages are finding new ways to live alongside them. At nearly 3.5-metres tall and weighing as much as a bus, you...
By Hillary Rosner - Mongabay Years of elephant movement data reveal distinct routes the animals take to access food and water, but road building and new rail lines, towns, cities and fences are increasingly cutting off their ability to move across the landscape. In...
By Yeukai Karengezeka - The Herald FIVE suspects appeared in court on Wednesday on charges of unlawfully possessing and attempting to sell two raw, unmarked elephant tusks weighing 21,8 kilogrammes. The suspects, identified as Justice Chikodze, Sarah Katumba, Abraham...
By Rachel Savage - The Guardian A third of Etosha national park has been burned despite efforts of volunteers, who say troops were sent in too late. Wildfires that raged through one of Africa’s largest national parks have been brought under control, Namibia’s...
By Gia Radnai - Lowvelder Limpopo, a 19-year-old female elephant, was euthanised after fatally goring senior carer Israel Shambira at the Hoedspruit Elephant Rehabilitation and Development Trust (HERD) on September 13.Shambira, a long-serving and trusted member of...