By Africa Geographic Pendjari National Park and W National Park in Benin have completed a major collaring exercise, the largest of its kind in the region, fitting satellite collars on 25 elephants and 14 antelopes to increase the surveillance and protection of these...
By Xinhua Tanzanian police said on Monday they have arrested three suspected poachers in the country's southern region of Ruvuma with illegal possession of 20 kilograms of elephant tusks. Simon Maigwa, the Ruvuma regional police commander, said the suspected poachers...
By Jon Lee Anderson - The New Yorker To get her fellow-citizens to care about threatened animals, Paula Kahumbu became a TV star. eventy miles southwest of Nairobi, the Loita Hills climb toward the sky from the red stone cleft of the Great Rift Valley. Situated beside...
By Daily News The co-founder and CEO of charity Tusk has told CNBC that the shutdown of the tourism industry in Africa due to the Covid-19 pandemic has caused an economic crisis which is impacting conservation in the region. Charles Mayhew, who is based in the U.K.,...
By Shayna Jacobs - The Washington Post NEW YORK — A Kenyan man accused in a multimillion-dollar operation to deal rhinoceros horns and ivory from elephant tusks — harming more than 100 endangered animals — arrived in the city Monday morning after being extradited to...
By Mohamed Daghar, Daily Maverick sia’s massive appetite for Africa’s wildlife has sustained a profitable international smuggling business, despite lockdowns. Measures to help curb the spread of Covid-19 in Uganda – such as restrictions on movement – apparently...
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts - Mongabay A new study finds that ivory is still being regularly traded on eBay, despite the e-commerce site prohibiting this kind of trade.The study focused on the online trade of miniature Japanese sculptures called netsuke, which are...
By The Polokwane Review POLOKWANE: The police on Friday arrested three suspects for possession of elephant tusks worth over R100,000. The suspects were arrested at a local mall during an undercover operation which was conducted by the police together with the...
By Jane Dalton - The Independent China and the world’s wildlife trade watchdog are facing legal questions over the regular trade in endangered wildlife for zoos in the country. Lawyers have submitted a complaint to the trade regulator, accusing the country of...
By Ashoka Mukpo - Mongabay ncreased political buy-in for law enforcement and interdiction efforts at ports in East Africa have pushed wildlife smuggling westward to Nigeria.Between 1998 and 2014, the top two countries associated with ivory seizures were Tanzania and...