By Xinhua DAR ES SALAAM: At least 12 elephants have been killed in Tanzania in the past three months in what the country's national parks watchdog has described as a new wave of poaching. Allan Kijazi, conservation commissioner for the Tanzania National Parks...
By Ellanie Smit, The Namibian Sun WINDHOEK: An online petition against Namibia's sale of 170 elephants has already gained more than 1,000 signatures. The petition on change.org, started by Eve Curtis from Canada, is directed to the environment ministry and...
By Patricia Eock, Afric Telegraph The suspects belong to an organized ivory trafficking network whose ramifications extend as far as Nigeria. Six suspected ivory traffickers were arrested in early December in the eastern region of Cameroon, in a joint operation by the...
By Timothy Obiezu, Voice of America ABUJA: Corruption has made Nigeria the biggest smuggler of ivory and pangolin scales from central and West Africa to Asia, according to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency. The London-based group says in the past five...
By Gethun Legesse, The Ethiopian Herald ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute (EBI) has formulated a wildlife protection project setting up a task force project to end ivory poaching and trafficking. It as well would introduce much stronger custodial...
By Francisco Raiva, The Club of Mozambique Two teachers and five other people from Muanza district in Sofala province, including a smallholder and a public administration technician, were arrested this weekend while trying to sell two elephant tusks and the skin of a...
By Sarah Marshall, The Telegraph On November 15, Ugandan ranger Scot Guma was killed by elephant while responding to calls from a community struggling with animals crossing over from Murchison Falls National Park. It’s a sad story, which, alarmingly, could become more...
Beth Nyaga, KBC Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) security personnel have arrested four suspects in Marsabit and Isiolo Counties for illegal possession of elephant tusks weighing a total of 58.6 kilogrammes. Two of the suspects were nabbed at Laisamis town in Marsabit...
By Xinhua Seventeen people were given prison terms for trafficking wildlife products in central China's Hunan Province, local authorities said Wednesday. The local court in the city of Ningxiang on Tuesday sentenced five defendants to more than 10 years' imprisonment...
By Nyasha Nyaungwa, Reuters Namibia has put 170 “high value” wild elephants up for sale due to drought and an increase in elephant numbers, the southern African country’s environmental ministry said on Wednesday. An advertisement carried by state-owned daily New Era...