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...
By Christinah Motlhabane, The Voice A sense of remorse and a convincing mitigation statement have saved a convicted ivory dealer from a lengthy jail term as he got off lightly with a reduced sentence. Poul Garirayi would have been condemned to a mandatory 10-year...
By Air Cargo News Heathrow Airport has teamed up with Microsoft to trial the world’s first artificial intelligence system to combat illegal wildlife trafficking. ‘Project SEEKER’ detects animal trafficking in cargo and baggage passing through the airport by scanning...
By Donald Matthys, Namibia Economist The partner states of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), Namibia, Botswana, Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe last week launched the first-ever coordinated aerial survey of elephants in Windhoek. Speaking at...
By Abhinaya Harigovind - The Indian Express Shankar is also only one of the two African elephants housed in zoos in India, the second being another male at the Mysuru Zoo. Shankar, a 27-year-old African elephant, is the only one of its kind at the Delhi Zoo. Having...
By Farai Mutsaka - The Washington Post PONGARA NATIONAL PARK, Gabon — Loss of habitat and poaching have made African forest elephants a critically endangered species. Yet the dense forests of sparsely populated Gabon in the Congo River Basin remain a “last...