By AllAfrica Maputo — Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi announced on Saturday that, for the third consecutive year, no elephants have been poached in the Niassa National Reserve in the far north of the country, or in the Gorongosa National Park in the central province...
By Xinhua South African Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Barbara Creecy thanked rangers for protecting wildlife in the country on Saturday in commemoration of the World Ranger Day. "In the battle to conserve our wildlife and halt poaching, it is our...
By Cyrus Ombati - The Star Police said the four were found in possession of 19 pieces of the jumbo tusks. The tusks have a street value of Sh10 million. The Directorate of Criminal Investigation’s Special Service Unit-led team confiscated the illegal cargo stashed in...
By Nelson Mandela - PML Daily The U.S. Ambassador Natalie E. Brown has applauded Uganda for the development of the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna (CITES) e-Permitting system. CITES is an international agreement that...
By Megan Shersby, Discover Wildlife Conservationists at Fauna & Flora International (FFI) and Centre Forestier N’Zérékoré are celebrating after their camera traps captured footage of a family of African forest elephants in the Ziama Forest in Guinea. The family...
By David Klein, OCCRP The global maritime shipping industry is being exploited by illegal wildlife traffickers, with some shipping companies not even aware they are being misused, according to a new report jointly published by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the...
By France24 Gabon's Ivindo National Park was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Wednesday in recognition of the nation's success in defending biodiversity and challenging climate change. The park is the second nature reserve -- after Lope Park in 2007 -- to be...
By Seattle Medium On Thursday, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that a King County antique business and one of its owners pleaded guilty to trafficking in species threatened with extinction under a voter-approved initiative banning the sale or...
By Cision OTTAWA, ON, July 23, 2021 /CNW/ - Here in Canada and around the world, biodiversity is declining at unprecedented rates. Since 1980, the number of elephants in Africa has fallen from 1,3 million to just over 400,000—a...
By France24 Environmentalists in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday urged the government to reverse a move to tax rather than forbid poaching, saying the move endangered millions in conservation funds. "With this measure to maximise revenues, the Congolese...