By Jackie Fox, RTE News Criminal poaching gangs are targeting and attempting to recruit vulnerable people in Kenya who were left unemployed by the collapse of the country’s tourism industry due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Endangered elephants, lions and giraffes are all...
By Simbarashe Mwandipendaa, Bulawayo 24 A 27-year-old Mushumbi poacher was jailed 9 years by Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro yesterday. Alan Pagan'a of Sedze village, Chief Chisunga in Mbire pleaded guilty to the charge. Prosecutor Albert Mazhindu told the...
By Malavika Vyawahare - MongaBay The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is a global environmental agreement of great consequence: it regulates the global trade in some of the most threatened species on Earth.While many conservation groups...
By China.org GABORONE: Residents in Seronga village in Botswana's North-West District have been warned of poisoned elephant carcasses. The Department of Wildlife and National Parks on Friday cautioned that there are elephant mortalities recorded in the areas...
By Ellanie Smit, The Namibian Sun WINDHOEK: Two elephants have been killed within a week of each other. One of the animals was killed during an illegal hunt, while the other was killed to address human-wildlife-conflict. It is suspected that an elephant found dead at...
By Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill The new coronavirus rescue package from House Democrats would dedicate funding to track diseases that spread to humans through wildlife, an effort to prevent any future pandemics similar to COVID-19. The coronavirus originated from a group...
By Caroline Chebet, Standard Media Kenya's efforts in combating illegal wildlife trade through ports have improved with no reported seizures at the Mombasa port for the past three years. According to Traffic, a global wildlife trade monitoring network, Kenya has been...
By Adam Minter - Business World SOCIAL DISTANCING may save human lives, but it’s wreaking havoc on some of the world’s most threatened species. In Botswana, which depends heavily on tourism, poachers have taken advantage of suddenly empty wildlife reserves to kill at...
By The Observer Fourteen Chinese nationals were Monday arraigned before the Buganda Road Chief Magistrate's court on charges of illegal possession of wildlife species and illegal presence in Uganda. The accused appeared before magistrate, Miriam Oyo Okello in...
By Physics World Although more famous for their trademark trumpet sounds, elephants also make loud low frequency vocalizations known as “rumbles”, which extend below the range of human hearing. In a new study, a team of geoscientists has tracked the acoustic and...