By Cyril Zenda, Fair Planet The continued refusal by the government of Botswana to allow game rangers to carry firearms, coupled with the country’s secrecy on poaching statistics and other wildlife data, is baffling conservationists. On 25 September, as Botswana...
By Nick Webster, UAE Hundreds of arrests have been made in a global operation by Interpol and customs authorities against traffickers in wildlife. Criminal networks have been severely disrupted by the month-long Operation Thunder 2021 spread across 118 countries, with...
By Muzhira Amin, Samaa The African elephants at the Karachi Zoo have mysteriously lost their tusks and it has put their lives at risk. “The damaged and infected tusks need to be removed as soon as possible otherwise the tooth infection will prove to be fatal for the...
By Chrissy SextonEarth.com staff writer An endangered population of Ethiopian elephants is under serious threat from tens of thousands of illegal human settlements, according to a new study led by the University of Oxford. The Babile Elephant Sanctuary...
By Ann Salaton, Kenya News Agency Narok County Commissioner Evans Achoki today flagged off, Jim Justus Nyamu, in his ninth day walk to sensitize residents on the need to conserve the environment and protect the wildlife. Nyamu who is the founder and director of...
By Yogashen Pillay - IOL DURBAN - ENVIRONMENTAL organisations have welcomed the arrest of two suspects found in possession of ivory with a street value of R400 000 in Ballito last week. It is alleged that the suspects were trying to sell elephant tusks and were...
By Mwebantu The Livingstone Subordinate Court has sentenced a Lusaka businessman of Garden-Chilulu compound to five years imprisonment with hard labour for unlawful possession of 196 kilograms of dried elephant meat. Ministry of Tourism Sakabilo Kalembwe has told...
By Lugeretzia Kooper, The Namibian A Botswana police witness yesterday claimed three elephant tusks were found in the possession of the three Namibian fishermen and their cousin who were brutally shot along the Chobe River last year by Botswana Defence Force (BDF)...
By Bulawayo24 Tsholotsho Rural District Council (RDC) has been accused of selling elephants for a song to concession holders under the Government quota system. Communities living near national parks are allocated a number of elephants among other wildlife that they...
By Maite Fernández Simon - The Washington Post Wild animals are to be banned from circuses in France thanks to a law passed by the French Parliament on Thursday and hailed by some activists as a step forward in animal rights protection, but others say it does not go...