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...
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...