By Edward Qorro, Tanzania Daily News Free game drives among Barbaig youths is reportedly seeing the community shunning killing of elephants within the Tarangire National Park. Detailing on anti-poaching and outreach operations within the park, a conservation officer...
By Jasmine Liu - Hyperallergic The European Parliament’s two resolutions bring it in line with already existing bans in the US and China. The European Commission has announced new restrictions on the ivory trade, bringing the European Union within spitting...
By Chomba Musika, Zambia Daily Mail Despite begging for mercy as a mother of 11, including an infant, a 46-year-old Lusaka businesswoman has been sentenced to six years imprisonment for illegal possession of 30 kilogrammes of elephant ivory. Lusaka magistrate Judith...
By Vanguard he duo of Omu Resort and the Nigerian Association of Zoological Gardens and Wildlife Parks (NAZAP), has called on the Lagos and Ogun State governments to save the largest and most important elephant herd remaining in Nigeria from endangerment and...
By Capital FM NAIROBI: President Uhuru Kenyatta has challenged conservation sector stakeholders led by the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, and Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to innovate new models of preserving Kenya’s flora and fauna resources. The President said the...
By Angus Begg - Daily Maverick Two years ago, Mozambique’s spectacular and vast Niassa Special Reserve, bordering on Tanzania, was just getting over a horrific period of elephant poaching. Then it was swamped by Cyclone Eloise. Yet the resilient Mozambicans took it in...
By TALIB VISRAM - Fast Company Illegal poaching has likely taken the lives of at least 394 rhinos in 2020, a number that is on track to increase this year. The illegal animal trade is also thought to kill tens of thousands of elephants annually and has left...
By Dan Taekema · CBC News Decision follows CBC investigation into 2019 elephant attack at African Lion Safari An organization that sets standards for Canadian zoos has banned elephant rides at member facilities, a decision an animal welfare group...
By Okechukwu Nnodim, Punch A total of 2,972 pieces of elephant tusks and ivories have been seized from smugglers as part of measures to halt the international trade in endangered species, the Federal Government has said. It said the seizures were done to protect...
By Anna Chibamu, New Zimbabwe Switzerland, through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), has provided US$1 million to APOPO Mine Action for clearing a dense minefield in the Sengwe Wildlife Corridor in Southern Zimbabwe for the next two years. The...