By Dave Kovaleski - Homeland Preparedness News A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced a bill that seeks to shut down international commercial wildlife markets. The Preventing Future Pandemics Act would direct the State Department to work with international...
By The Citizen A senior cop from the Rift Valley Regional Police headquarters is among three suspects who were arrested for ivory possession. Senior Sergeant Charles Kandagor Kipkulei and two other suspects were intercepted on Monday night following an anonymous...
By Ronald Musoke, The Independent Hundreds of elephants moving from Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park to the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have caused excitement in Virunga and nonchalant surprise in Uganda. At the last...
By Timothy Choon, The Jakarta Post Despite being the fourth most lucrative trade globally, illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is often overshadowed by more prominent criminal ventures, such as drug trafficking and arms dealing. It is estimated that US$26 billion is...
By Tracy Keeling - The Canary Hundreds of elephants in Botswana dropped dead, quite literally, in 2020. Following a highly criticised investigation into the mass mortality event, the government announced that water-based toxins caused the...
By EU Reporter The Commission has published draft measures aimed to effectively ban EU trade in ivory and is submitting them for public feedback. While the EU is not identified as a region of concern regarding illegal ivory trade, the revision of the existing EU rules...
By Jeffrey Barbee and Laurel Neme, National Geographic The search for oil and gas in the watershed of the world-famous, wildlife-rich Okavango Delta moved one step closer to reality when a multimillion-dollar drilling rig from Houston, Texas, broke ground on the first...
By Patrick Greenfield, The Guardian In 1996, Prof Shahid Naeem was part of a team of researchers who set out to value the Earth. Specifically, they were trying to establish the dollar value of all of the “ecosystem services” the planet provides to humans every year....
By Club of Mozambique Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, is proud to announce it becomes officially the very first institution from Africa to join the Global Coalition #UnitedforBiodiversity. Launched by EU Commissioner for Environment Virginijus Sinkevicius on the...
By Premium Times The Nigeria Customs Service, Apapa Area Command, says it has intercepted pangolin scales and other mixed endangered species meant for export, worth N952 million. Mohammed Abba-Kura, Customs Comptroller, said at a media briefing on Tuesday in Lagos...