By The Center for Biological Diversity Contact: Sarah Uhlemann, (206) 327-2344, suhlemann@biologicaldiversity.org Broad Range of International Conservation Projects Hit By Halt in U.S. Support WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity...
NGO response to proposals from Namibia and Zimbabwe to Cull Elephants and other Wildlife
23 October 2024 – The undersigned organisations are deeply concerned by the announcements by some governments in southern Africa to cull large numbers of elephants and other wild animals, including in National Parks. In late August 2024, Namibia declared it...
CNRG STATEMENT ON ELEPHANT CULLING
The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) has learned with shock and deep concern a decision made by the government to slaughter 200 elephants ostensibly to feed hungry citizens and reduce the elephant population, said to be way over the country’s...
Zoo Elephant Charlie: Free, Free at Last
By EMS Foundation [Tshwane, Pretoria: 20 August 2024]: Thirty years after democracy, the last elephant in South Africa's only national zoo has been freed. After a nail-biting 4 hour trip towards freedom, the EMS Foundation is thrilled to announce that...
Statement on the killing of Super Tusker elephants in Tanzania
By IFAW (Nairobi, Kenya – 26 April 2024) IFAW is deeply concerned about the recent killing of two ‘Super Tusker’ elephants in the transboundary landscape of Northern Tanzania, bordering Kenya. At a time when elephants are facing increasing threats from climate...
JOINT STATEMENT ON THE AMBOSELI ELEPHANTS
By Big Life Foundation, Elephant Voices and Amboseli Trust for Elephants In 1994 there was international outcry when four individually known elephants, subjects of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project, were shot by trophy hunters on the Tanzanian side of the border....
PRESS RELEASE: Trophy hunting myths debunked
NGOs tackle misinformation about trophy hunting spread by the hunting lobby Munich, 18th January 2024. – Although the global biodiversity crisis is accelerating, it is still legal to hunt endangered and internationally protected species, including elephants,...
Press Release: Elephant Trophy Imports Should Cease Until the New 4(d) Rule is Final
By Center for Biological Diversity, Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International and Humane Society Legislative Fund. Please Halt Elephant Trophy Imports Until the Revised African Elephant4(d) Rule is Final and Deny Elephant Trophy Imports from...
African conservationists, government officials and community leaders urge Peers to back a UK import ban on the ‘morally reprehensible colonial relic’ of trophy hunting
Humane Society International / United Kingdom ‘Conservation can never be achieved down the barrel of a gun’, experts state ahead of House of Lords debate on a hunting trophy import ban. LONDON—A group of 103 wildlife conservation experts, scientists, government...
Press Release: Undercover investigation reveals elephant ivory being sold across Florida, and sellers who do not have papers to prove legality
By Humane Society of the United States WASHINGTON—Today the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International released a disturbing undercover investigation revealing the potentially deceptive sale of products made from elephant ivory by...