By Linzetta Calitz & Chelsea Pieterse, Lowvelder Not only are canines housed at the K9 centre in the Kruger, but also snares that had been left to trap the park’s animals. K9 manager, Johan de Beer has built up a collection of snares, and he guards them well. “I...
By Martha Chikoti, Malawi 24 The African Parks-run Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve, to the east of Central Malawi and near Lake Malawi, is one of the two large wildlife areas which have suffered evils of poaching by surrounding communities. Over the years, a high demand...
By Rachel Nuwer - The New York Times A trove from a Portuguese trading ship that sank in 1533 preserved genetic traces of whole lineages that have vanished from West Africa. In 2008, workers searching for diamonds off the coast of Namibia found a different kind of...
By Xinhua GABORONE, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Botswanan government will spend millions of pula to compensate farmers that have lost crops due to wild animals, the Wildlife and Natural Parks Director Kabelo Senyatso said on Monday. "Currently we have four projects of...
By Wallace Ruzvidzo - Sunday Mail FIVE poachers were gunned down by Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) rangers in 10 incidents of armed confrontation in national parks this year amid an intensifying crackdown on poaching by authorities....
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...