By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick A new investigative report has laid bare the scale and complexity of wildlife trafficking across southern Africa, exposing a tangled web of corruption, organised crime and systemic failures that are eroding conservation efforts and...
By The Zimbabwean Zimbabwe’s national police force appears reluctant to pursue Li Song, a Chinese national allegedly at the centre of a poaching network that uses the deadly chemical cyanide to kill animals in the country’s game reserves. Li was arrested in 2024 by...
By Julienne Du Toit - Daily Maverick Hundreds of years ago, the Eastern Cape was full of elephants. By 1931, there were only 11 left. Now their numbers are expanding again, even along their long-forgotten tracks through the Karoo. There are few experiences more joyful...
By Anayo Ezugwu - New Telegraph Deforestation is one of the challenges facing tropical forests in Nigeria. This activity has endangered many wild animal species such as chimpanzees, elephants and white-throated guenon monkeys. Omo Forest Reserve in Ogun State is one...
By Charles Henson, Programme Manager for Stockpiles, EPIF - Enviro News Nigeria: I have recently travelled to Sierra Leone and Liberia as part of an Elephant Protection Initiative Foundation (EPIF) project to help improve the security of wildlife products in...
By Patrick Greenfield - The Guardian Hundreds of projects supported by USAID have been thrown into doubt, as fears grow of an increase in crimes such as poaching and trafficking. When the guns finally fell silent in 1992, little was left alive in Gorongosa national...
By Liz Else, New Scientist A weatherproof box and motion-trigger camera help photographer Will Burrard-Lucas capture images of rarely seen African forest elephants. Night has fallen; an elephant mother and her calf walk through Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, which...
By KahawaTungu Two suspects were arrested while transporting elephant tusks in a village in Gongoni, Magarini, Kilifi County. The two men were riding on a motorcycle on March 24, 2025 when they were intercepted by Kenya Wildlife Service personnel in Marikebuni area....
By The Macao News For the second time in a week, Angolan authorities arrested two Vietnamese nationals on suspicion of illegal poaching and wildlife trafficking, preventing them from leaving the country with over 46 kilograms of elephant ivory, teeth and rhinoceros...
By Bluewin Customs officials at Geneva Airport discovered an elephant tusk in the luggage of a 68-year-old US citizen. The protected ivory was confiscated. A fine was also imposed. The American was stopped by customs officials last week as he was about to board a...