By Muthoni Waweru, Capital News The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has deployed more than 50 community wildlife rangers from Kenya and Tanzania to conduct a joint border patrol to avert cases of poaching. The agency’s Regional Director for East Africa...
By Anne Robi, Tanzania Daily News via AllAfrica Plans are underway by Journalists Environmental Association of Tanzania (JET), to train reporters on wildlife conservation in attempts to reach wider public through their media coverage. That was said during a two-day...
By Guy Rogers, Herald Live SANParks is set to broaden its engagement with stakeholders on how to manage the last elephant in the Knysna Forest. While early records confirm the presence of a number of elephants in the forest, an exhaustive survey culminating in a...
By Nomfundo Ngcobo, ECR KZN Ezemvelo Wildlife says they have seen a decrease in poaching since the start of the national lockdown. But the conservation body says they remain on high alert as poachers continue to operate in the province. Last week, a suspect was...
By Jane Flanagan - The Times Conservationists are heartened after an elephant with her young made a 50-mile trek across Kenyan terrain blighted by poaching and tribal clashes.Koya, 23, is the first female to have moved between herds on the Samburu plains and the...
By SIPHO MABUZA - ZimLive VICTORIA FALLS – Hwange Football Club defender Craven Banda has been arrested after he was found with eight raw elephant tusks, police said. The 35-year-old, an employee of Hwange Colliery Company, was arrested on Sunday after a joint police...
By AllAfrica In a statement issued on Monday to mark the ninth anniversary of its creation, the National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC) stressed not only this victory in elephant conservation, but also the increase in the number of people tried and...
By Mbongeni Mguni, Mmegi Online Any time now, the results of post-mortems into the deaths of nearly 60 elephants in the far northwest are due. Since March, elephant carcasses have been found in the lush veldt around Seronga and Eretsha villages, with wildlife...
By Xinhua Ten elephants considered problematic have been shot dead in northernNamibia in a move authorities say was aimed at protecting farmers andtheir crops. Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) spokespersonRomeo Muyunda said on Saturday that 10...
By Asher Omondi, Tuko A man in Laikipia county has 14 days to appeal a court ruling that handed him five years in jail. Hillary Biwot Lagat was found guilty for being in possession of an elephant tusk by Nyahururu chief magistrate Charles Obulutsa on Thursday,...