TOKYO (November 1, 2022)—Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund released today a report: “Smugglers’ Source: Japan’s Legal Ivory Market –An Analysis of Chinese Court Decisions of Ivory Illegally Exported from Japan”. Thousands of elephants are killed every year to supply...
By Elephants Without Borders A new study by the University of Pretoria, Duke University and Elephants Without Borders is published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE underscores the importance of reconnecting elephant habitats through safe corridors. The...
By Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MOAZU KROMAH, a/k/a “Ayoub,” a/k/a “Ayuba,” a/k/a “Kampala Man,” a citizen of Liberia and...
By Tempe Adams - Elephants Without Borders Kasane, Botswana- New research led by Elephants Without Borders (EWB) has discovered that elephant movement through wildlife corridors is directly impacted by differing forms of human pressures and development. From...
Fondation Franz Weber, Born Free et al With a coalition of 137 non-governmental organizations, FFW is calling for a ban on the cruel practice of trophy hunting. In the face of the unprecedented man-made global biodiversity crisis, in which species survival is...
The Standing Committee of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), at its meeting in Lyon, France, today agreed that countries must continue to report on their domestic ivory markets. CITES Decision 18.117,...
By Fondation Franz Weber Namibia exports 22 wild elephants in blatant disregard of international law On the 6th March 2022, the Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) finally admitted in an emailed statement that it has exported 22 wild-caught...
CITES Standing Committee 74, Lyon France 7-11 March 2022 The first in-person meeting since 2019 of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) opens Monday 7 March in Lyon, France. The loaded agenda for the 74th...
By Center for Biological Diversity and The Humane Society of the United States/Humane Society International. Elephant Trophy Trade Contributes to Extinction Risk, Raises Legal Concerns WASHINGTON— Conservation and animal welfare groups urged the U.S. Fish and...
By African Parks It is with deep regret that we share that yesterday, in the afternoon of Tuesday February 8, a team of rangers was ambushed in W National Park in Benin, while carrying out a patrol at the northern limit of the Park where it intersects with Burkina...