By STEVEN LANG - Grocott's Mail The office usually opens at 7am, but because it was the first day after lockdown, I made sure to arrive at 6.45am. There were already five people ahead of me – all respectfully masked and two metres apart. We were all...
By The Namibia Economist Namibia has managed to arrest more than 1,790 suspected poachers of high valued and iconic species such as rhino and elephant at the end of 2018 up to May 2020, an official said this week. The Minister of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism,...
By Hugh Biggar, The Washington Post In northern Cambodia, giant ibis, white-winged ducks and other rare species have helped ecotourism take flight in recent years. Just two decades after their near extinction, the population of giant ibis has grown to about 300...
By Louise Boyle, The Independent Ivory trafficking has shifted to Cambodia after a crackdown on the illegal trade in China and neighbouring countries, according to a new report. A year-long investigation by the Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC), published on Thursday,...
By Ellanie Smit, The Namibian Sun WINDHOEK: Four new wildlife crime cases were registered and 17 suspects arrested last week. Thirteen suspects were arrested in connection with rhino poaching or trafficking and two for elephant poaching or trafficking. Five wildlife...
By The Herald Forestry Commission officials in Victoria Falls last week recovered oranges, cucumbers and amarula fruits in a plastic bag laced with cyanide poison. It is suspected that some poachers left them hanging on a tree in a bid to kill elephants in the forest....
Camer.be A notorious wildlife trafficker has been arrested for unlawful possession of ivory tusks in Bertoua. He was arrested alongside another trafficker during an operation carried out by wildlife officials of the East Regional Delegation of Forestry and Wildlife...
By Tracy Teddy Nayiga, PML Daily KAMPALA: Police in Kampala have arrested three suspects on allegations of unlawfully dealing in protected species particularly ivory valued at Shs30 million, SP Patrick Onyango has revealed. The suspects have been identified as Akello...
By Nana Konadu Agyeman, Graphic Online Four persons who allegedly shot and killed an elephant at Vamboi in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region have been arrested. The suspected poachers reportedly butchered and removed the tusks of the middle-aged male...
By Tracy Keeling, The Canary The Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting’s (CBTH) founder Eduardo Gonçalves has released a new book. Called Trophy Hunters Exposed: Inside the Big Game Industry, the book aims at the hunting industry and – to adopt the target’s...