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...
By Timo Shihepo, The Namibian The minister of agriculture, water and land reform, Calle Schlettwein, has summoned Canadian oil company ReconAfrica to explain why it drilled for water for its industrial operations in the Kavango regions without a permit. ReconAfrica,...
By Jeff Barbee & Laurel Neme, National Geographic RUNDU, NAMIBIA: Canadian oil and gas exploration company Reconnaissance Energy Africa has bulldozed land for a test oil well inside a protected wildlife area in northeastern Namibia, and two local leaders say they...
By Ellanie Smit - The Namibian Sun WINDHOEK: A year after the environment ministry first announced a tender to auction 170 elephants, it says that the capturing of the 57 elephants that were eventually sold is close to completion. The ministry is still adamant that it...
By Reuters WASHINGTON: The United States has imposed visa restrictions on eight individuals it said were wildlife traffickers in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an effort to disrupt the illicit trade, the U.S. State Department said on Monday. The State Department...
By Bulawayo 24 Police have launched a probe into alleged under-pricing of elephants in Tsholotsho, with council management and councillors being called in for questioning on suspicion of corruption. Sources privy to the case state that the Tsholotsho community could...