By Forces.net Soldiers from the Royal Gurkha Rifles have trained Zambian rangers in anti-poaching skills and tactics – the first UK deployment of its kind in the country. The 30-strong unit spent six weeks in Zambia, sharing soldiering skills with the rangers to help...
By Georgina Torbet - Digital Trends Everyone knows that elephants are an endangered species, with only approximately 415,000 African elephants left on the continent according to the World Wildlife Fund. But it’s difficult for ecologists to accurately monitor...
By Michael Powell - Mail on Sunday Bloodthirsty trophy-hunters are killing one animal every three minutes, a damning exposé of the industry has revealed. More than 1.7 million animals, including lions, elephants and endangered rhinos, have been slaughtered in the...
By Jane Dalton - The Independent A delay in implementing a ban on selling ivory is costing elephants’ lives, experts say, with items made of tusks still being legally sold in the UK. Auction houses and dealers are still profiting from the ivory trade...
Dina Ngouela, Vox Congo Translated from French by an automated online translation service Of Congolese nationality, these two individuals were arrested by agents of the Nkayi Water and Forests brigade and the gendarmes with the support of the PLAF project. A seized...
By Ezra Manyibe, Kenyans.co.ke Mansur Mohamed Surur, a Kenyan national, will receive a criminal trial in the United States after he on Friday, December 18, 2020, lost a case attempting to block the government from extraditing him. Milimani Law Courts Chief Margistrate...
By Rene Ebersole, National Geographic When a squad of federal and state law enforcement agents with guns and bulletproof vests entered a single-story brick home in Buffalo, New York, on July 5, 2018 they were searching for business records of a suspected criminal...
By Bulawayo 24 News In Zimbabwe, landmines affect not only local populations but also their precious livestock and wildlife. Thanks to an initial start-up grant from the US government, followed by another grant and strong support from the Swiss Embassy in Harare,...
By Cyril Christo, The Hill “The day we die a soft breeze will wipe out our footprints in the sand. When the wind dies down, who will tell the timelessness that once we walked this way in the dawn of time.” —Bushman Song from “Why Ostriches Don’t Fly” “And...
By Zambezi Current Two elephants were killed yesterday after being hit by a speeding dump truck owned by one of the companies mining coal near Sinamatela Camp inside the Hwange National Park. The driver escaped unscathed in the incident while the 40-ton dump truck was...