By Wildlife Conservation Society, News Wise Study compared different methodologies using dung, DNA analysis, and camera traps LIBREVILLE, Gabon – A team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and working closely with experts from the Agence...
By Modern Ghana A new online campaign from African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is quickly gaining steam, encouraging support among members of Congress to increase FY22 funding requests for international conservation, combating wildlife trafficking programs, habitat...
By Vienna University of Technology, Phys.org For centuries, ivory was often used to make art objects. But to protect elephant populations, the ivory trade was banned internationally in 1989. To restore ivory parts of old art objects, one must therefore resort to...
By Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph Tributes have poured in for Il Talal, one of Africa’s last great "super tusker" elephants, which has died in a national park in Kenya. The much-loved bull elephant escaped the lifelong threat of poachers to survive to the age of 55,...
By Independent Online (IOL) History has been made at the Kruger National Park which has appointed its first female head ranger, Cathy Dreyer who takes up the position armed with a host of accolades in conservation management, law enforcement, and people and strategic...
By Fadekemi Ajakaiye, This Day Live The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) organised workshops tagged ‘Regional Common Action Plan on Combatting Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) in Abeokuta and Kano to improve awareness on the Illegal Wildlife Trade issue with vulture...
By By Gail C. Thomson - Conservation Namibia The African savannah elephant was recently classified as Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), citing a decline throughout Africa of 60% over the past 50 years. Yet in...
By Taiwan News A report released today by WildAid and the Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund (JTEF) documents ivory businesses in Tokyo targeting Chinese customers, who knowingly operate with the assumption that the purchased ivory items will eventually be exported,...
By Mirage An annual consumer survey of the elephant ivory trade in China finds that demand for ivory continues to decrease since the country banned domestic trade in 2017 and is now less than half of pre-ban levels. Just 18 percent of consumers surveyed intend to...
By Chris Morris, International Policy Digest It began as a whisper. An ambiguous and innocuous headline, “Court acquits two once jailed suspect poachers”. Hardly the attention-grabbing title one might expect when an internationally infamous ivory trafficker, with the...