Tag: elephants
Illegal wildlife trade continues to threaten African elephants
Illegal killing for ivory continues to threaten African elephants. To help guide responses to the ongoing poaching, a study by the University of Cape...
Namibia sees steady downward trend in rhino and elephant poaching
Namibia saw a continued downward trend in rhino and elephant poaching last year after stepping up patrols and sharply increasing fines, the government said...
Singapore crushes ivory from around 300 elephants to deter illegal trade
Singapore started crushing nine tonnes worth of elephant ivory on Tuesday, in what authorities said was the biggest such event globally in recent years...
Safeguarding Botswana’s living treasures
Botswana is taking a comprehensive approach to safeguard one of its most valuable resources — its wildlife.
Botswana’s commitment to its diverse and majestic wildlife...
ISS: Decline in elephant poaching could be short-lived
Elephant poaching in Africa has dropped for five consecutive years to levels last witnessed over a decade ago. The latest report by...
HK court fines ivory trader $1,000 for illegal trading as China...
A Hong Kong court found an ivory trader guilty of illegal ivory possession and imposed a relatively light penalty of an HK$8,000...
More elephant poaching in Zimbabwe
At least 19 elephants have been poached through cyanide poisoning since June in Zimbabwe's biggest game park where drones were deployed last...
Decisions made at UN CITES meeting on wildlife trade in South...
The 17th meeting of the UN's Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has been meeting in Johannesburg, with ivory, rhinos...
ISS: Ivory poaching – not just a conservation issue
On Saturday, 24 September, Johannesburg welcomed delegates from around the world to the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP17)...
Ivory trade debate resurfaces as southern Africa’s elephants thrive
South Africa's Kruger National Park is littered in places with the trunks of trees uprooted and stripped of bark by a surging...
Botswana breaks ranks with neighbours on ivory trade
Botswana, home to the world's largest elephant population, will break ranks with its southern African neighbours and not support bids at an...
Elephant poaching in Africa down, but still far too high: CITES
The illegal killing of African elephants for their ivory seems to have fallen from record peaks but poaching of the animal is...
Tanzania seized $2 million worth of elephant ivory in June
Tanzanian police said on Tuesday it had seized elephant ivory worth more than $2 million (1.5 million pounds) and arrested nine suspected...
Tanzania denies elephants could disappear from reserves with six years
Tanzania on Wednesday rejected findings by conservationists who said elephants could disappear from a reserve there within six years due to "industrial...
Ex-Minnesota college professor fined $500,000 for smuggling ivory
A former Minnesota philosophy professor was fined $500,000 on Monday for smuggling elephant ivory and illegally exporting rhinoceros horns from the United...
Tanzania court jails two Chinese men for ivory smuggling
Tanzania has sentenced two Chinese men to 35 years each in jail for ivory smuggling, local media reported on Saturday, the latest...
Zimbabwe ranger mistakenly kills Italian father and son in wildlife park
An Italian father and son have been shot dead by a ranger in a wildlife park in Zimbabwe, the parks and wildlife...
Tanzania launches manhunt after poachers kill British helicopter pilot
Tanzanian authorities have launched a manhunt after poachers shot down a helicopter and its British pilot during an operation to track down...
Weapons trafficking and poaching
A senior researcher at the Small Arms Survey, Khristopher Carlson, told a UN meeting the systematic tracing of ammunition found at particularly,...
China donates 40 vehicles, equipment to boost Zim anti-poaching operations
The Chinese government has donated 40 new vehicles and equipment to improve the counter-poaching and conservation capabilities of Zimbabwe's Parks and Wildlife...
Germany donates Husky aircraft to Tanzania to fight poaching
The German government has donated two Husky fixed wing light aircraft to Tanzania National Parks and Tanzania Wildlife Authority in an effort...
Germany donates Husky aircraft to Tanzania to fight poaching
The German government has donated two Husky fixed wing light aircraft to Tanzania National Parks and Tanzania Wildlife Authority in an effort...
Zimbabwe deploys army to combat cyanide poison poachers
The Zimbabwean government has deployed the army to crack down on poaching in all game reserves following the slaughter of more than...
Zimbabwe frees on bail reporters who implicated police in poaching
A Zimbabwean court on Wednesday freed on bail an editor and two reporters from a state-owned newspaper who were arrested for publishing...
Zimbabwe arrests editor, reporters over elephant poaching story
Zimbabwean police said on Tuesday they had arrested an editor and two reporters from a state-owned newspaper for publishing falsehoods after reporting...
Number of Zimbabwe elephants killed with cyanide rises to 60
Suspected poachers have used cyanide to kill 23 elephants in Zimbabwe's Hwange national park, raising the death toll there and in the...
Sudanese poachers kill elephants amid Central Africa chaos: UN experts
Sudanese poachers have been taking advantage of the chaos in conflict-torn Central African Republic and are killing elephants for their ivory and...
Tanzania urges China to curb ivory demand to save elephants
A Tanzanian government minister described elephant poaching on Thursday as a national disaster, and urged China to curb its appetite for ivory.
The...
Poachers decimate Mozambique elephant population
Mozambique has lost half its elephants over the past five years, part of a wave of poaching driven by red-hot demand for...
Thailand makes second big ivory bust in two weeks
Thai customs officials on Monday announced their second big seizure of African ivory in two weeks, amounting to around three tonnes of...
China donates anti-poaching equipment to Kenya
The Chinese Embassy in Kenya has donated $20 000 worth of equipment to fighting poaching in the country.
The equipment includes tents, binoculars,...
African elephants at risk, record ivory seizures
More than 20,000 African elephants were killed for their ivory in 2013, driven by demand in China and Thailand, and some local...
First elephant poached in Kruger park in ten years
Poachers have for the first time in a decade killed an elephant in the Kruger National Park, while 245 rhinos have been...
Wildlife poaching on the increase in Namibia
Poaching of rhinos and elephants has risen sharply in Namibia, with 121 elephants killed in the past two and a half years,...
Belgium destroys ivory to raise awareness of illegal trade
Belgium on Wednesday destroyed 1.7 tonnes of ivory seized at its borders in an effort to draw public attention to an increase...
Zim recalls former game rangers, support staff to boost faltering anti-poaching...
The Zimbabwean Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (PWMA) has recalled former game rangers and specialised anti-poaching support staff in an emergency bid...
Tanzania considering US proposal to use drones in anti-poaching ops
The Tanzanian government says it is considering proposals from private American conservationists who are offering to help the country fight endemic rhino...
Cameroon elephants suffer unprecedented poaching: WWF
At least half the elephant population in Cameroon's Bouba N'Djida reserve have been slaughtered because the west African nation sent too few...
