by Adam Cruise | Oct 15, 2022 | Commentary
By Oluwole Ojewale, Daily Maverick Globally, over 1,000 park rangers have been killed over the last decade. According to the World Wildlife Fund, more than 100 died on the job in Asia and Central Africa in 2018 — nearly half at the hands of poachers. But hundreds more...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 14, 2021 | News
By Reuters WASHINGTON: The United States has imposed visa restrictions on eight individuals it said were wildlife traffickers in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an effort to disrupt the illicit trade, the U.S. State Department said on Monday. The State Department...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 25, 2020 | News
By Pauline Bax, Bloomberg News The Republic of Congo imprisoned a well-known poacher for 30 years for the attempted murder of park rangers and the smuggling of elephant tusks, marking the first conviction by a criminal court in that country of a wildlife trafficker....
by Adam Cruise | Jul 29, 2020 | News
By Monica Villamizar – PBS NewsHour Transcript: Judy Woodruff:The Congo Basin rainforest is the second largest on earth, home to unique biodiversity.But even its remoteness cannot protect wildlife like gorillas and elephants from the threat of extinction from...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 3, 2019 | News
By Ryan Truscott – EWN Joel Alves spent 14 days in a Congo rainforest to assist with darting and collaring forest elephants. South African wildlife vet Joe Alves and his team of trackers in a natural forest clearing shortly after collaring an elephant cow....
