by Adam Cruise | Nov 28, 2019 | News
By Denton Daily A near-total ban on taking baby African elephants from the wild and selling them to zoos has been approved at a meeting in Geneva. Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) decided to tighten the rules after days of...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 26, 2019 | News
By David McKenzie & Brent Swails, CNN HWANGE NATIONAL PARK, ZIMBABWE: The cellphone footage reveals rows of steel cells stretching along a concrete floor. Behind each set of bars, a juvenile African elephant, their tusks just barely showing. One elephant presses...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 7, 2019 | News
By Newsday The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) raked in over US$3,2 million in the sale of 101 baby elephants to China and the United Arab Emirates between 2016 and this year. The proceeds have reportedly gone into the capacitation of...