By Sebastian Miriti, Kenya News Agency Police in Marsabit have recovered two guns and four rounds of ammunition suspected to have been used in killing elephants in Hurri Hills, North Horr Sub-county in Marsabit County in April this year. Marsabit county Police...
By Dominic Majola, Eyewitness News JOHANNESBURG - A man in the North West has on Thursday been sentenced to eight years for keeping elephant ivory worth over R1 million in his house. Moabi Moribe has been on the run since 2018. It's understood he escaped from...
By Reuters Park rangers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested a militia leader and alleged ivory trafficker whose fighters are accused of killing 19 rangers, authorities said on Thursday. Jackson Muhukambuto, a former army officer who has led various...
By Ellanie Smit - Namibian Sun Four months after the bidding process closed, negotiations have been completed with regards to the sale of 170 elephants from Namibia. This was confirmed last week by environment ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyunda. He told Namibian Sun...
By Tuko Women in Samburu are reaping big economically after finding a solid customer base in elephant orphanages situated in the county. The women are reported to be raking huge profits after being sought to supply the commodity to orphanages harbouring hundreds of...
By AAthira Perinchery, The Wire The human costs of armed conflicts are well known. Now, a study has found that in the last three decades, such conflicts have been spread across habitats used by more than three-quarters of the world’s terrestrial birds and mammals as...
By Natalie Angier, The New York Times Joyce Poole was 6 years old and living in Malawi when her family drove north to see the wild African elephants of what is now Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. On spotting a particularly majestic male elephant, Dr. Poole’s father,...
By Tanya Waterworth, IOL Dr Audrey Delsink was afraid of elephants when she started out in the field of natural sciences, but now has a real passion for them, as well as managing and conserving the iconic species which are now on the endangered list. This week,...
By The Herald Two Harare man have appeared in court after they were caught in possession of 22,88 kilogrammes of ivory worth $326 726 without a licence. Richard Jocho and Tapiwashe Hove were not asked to plead charged of contravening the Parks and Wildlife Act...
By Brian Ocharo, The Nation via AllAfrica New evidence supplied by the US government links two Kenyans implicated in Sh570 million ivory smuggling to notorious Liberian poacher and ivory trafficker Moazu Kromar. Documents filed in a Mombasa court claim Kenyan...