By Masayuki Sakamoto, Executive Director of the Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund (JTEF) Executive Summary Africa’s elephants continue to be in crisis due to poaching for trading their ivory, and domestic markets for ivory have been closing worldwide to combat this...
By Adam Cruise and Izzy Sasada Namibia is often presented as a country with exemplary elephant and wildlife conservation management, where wildlife thrives and rural communities living among and alongside Namibia’s elephants and other wildlife reportedly benefit...
By Alison Hutchinson, Nathan Stephens-Griffin, Tanya Wyatt - Northumbria University, United Kingdom AbstractWildlife faces a number of threats due to human activity, including overexploitation from excessive and/or illegal trade. The Convention on International Trade...
By UNEP-WWF Report says the problem is as much a development and humanitarian issue as a conservation concern and risks derailing the Sustainable Development Goals. Gland (8 July 2021) – Conflict between people and animals, from China’s famed wandering...
By Adam Cruise On the 11th of August 2021, Namibia's Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) issued a press release stating that it will capture 57 wild African elephants. It had sold them to interested but as yet undisclosed buyers. of the 57 elephants...
By WildAid and the Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund. Executive SummaryIllegal exports of ivory are continuing unabated. Though Japan,where the most visible and largest legal ivory market exists today, hasbeen claiming that its market is not contributing to illegal trade,...
Gland, Switzerland, 11 March 2021 (IUCN) – The pandemic has significantly impacted nature conservation around the globe, including job losses among protected area rangers, reduced anti-poaching patrols and environmental protection rollbacks, according to a collection...
By John Hart, Kathleen Gobush, Fiona Maisels, Sam Wasser, Benson Okita-Ouma and Rob Slotow - Cambridge University Press The African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG) of IUCN will now treat African elephants as two species: the forest elephant Loxodonta...
By TRAFFIC Trading Years for Wildlife lifts the lid on why 45 offenders who are incarcerated in six different Namibian Correctional Service facilities, turned towards the illegal wildlife trade. The investigation, which took two years, reveals how economic, social,...
By Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) On the eve of UN International Anti-Corruption Day (09 December), our latest report finds West and Central Africa have emerged as major sourcing and export hubs for the illegal trafficking of elephant ivory and pangolin...