By Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation Police in Busia have arrested a Senior Security Officer from Uganda in possession of three pieces of animal trophies worth Kshs 3 million street value. Kennedy Wabwire, was arrested on Friday at around 2.00 pm through a tip off from...
By Jeffrey Barbee & Laurel Neme, National Geographic ReconAfrica, a Canadian company exploring for oil and gas in Namibia upstream of a world-famous UNESCO World Heritage site that’s home to elephants and other wildlife is disposing of wastewater without permits,...
By Daily Observer The Elephant Research and Conservation (ELRECO), a conservation project with support from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, has released a research report on Forest Elephants in Liberia putting existing forest elephants between...
By All Africa MAPUTO – MATUTUINE (MOZAMBIQUE): Mozambique's National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC), in partnership with the South Africa-based Peace Parks Foundation conducted on Friday the first phase of a translocation drive of 42 elephants that had...
By Ray Ndlovu - Bloomberg via Aljazeera Zimbabwe is considering the mass killing of elephants, known as culling, for the first time since 1988 to reduce the 100,000 strong population of the animals. The government of Zimbabwe, which has the world’s second-largest...
By Devdiscourse The South African National Parks (SANParks) has welcomed the report of a High-Level Panel into the management, breeding, hunting, trade and handling of elephant, lion, leopard and rhinoceros. The panel was appointed by the Minister of Forestry,...
By Edward Qorro, Tanzania Daily News / All Africa Longido District Commissioner Frank Mwaisumbe has raised alarm on the possible vanishing of animal corridors along the Enduimet Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The DC further warned that the reality could further...
By Nomahlubi Sonjica, TimesLive A 53-year-old man was arrested in Alberton, east of Johannesburg, for possession of elephant tusks. “Crime Intelligence members received information about a person that will be transporting elephant tusks,” said police spokesperson Capt...
By The Club of Mozambique Five Mozambican citizens were detained by the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) in Tete city and Chitima, a village in Cahora-Bassa district, on Monday, having being found in possession of 11 elephant tusks, lions’ teeth, a...
By Antony Sguazzin & Andrew Davis, Bloomberg Lion breeding in South Africa and trade in products such as their bones should be ended and the country won’t lobby for the lifting of global restrictions on the rhino horn and elephant ivory trade, Environment Minister...