During the first three months of 2021, the International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) has seized 62 elephant tusks compared to 90 for the whole of last year...
How exactly does one end up in a career that also stokes your passion of protecting the natural environment? Leonie Meyer, a reporting strategist at GreymatterFinch and a SANParks Honorary Ranger, explains...
Issued by SAICA 17 Mar 2020
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has welcomed the arrest of two people and the recovery of 10 rhino horn valued at R2.8m at OR Tambo International Airport...
Malawi has burned 2.6 tons of illicit ivory, comprising 781 elephant tusks. The ivory had been seized from ivory traffickers in Mzuzu in 2013, the capital of Malawi's Northern Region...
Authorities in Mozambique on Monday, 6 July 2015, burned more than 2.6 tonnes of ivory and rhino horns confiscated during various anti-poaching busts, demonstrating a tough stance on wildlife trafficking...
In a raid on a private home in Matola, Mozambique more than one ton of ivory and 65 rhino horns were recently seized...
South African Airways Cargo has placed an embargo on the transportation of hunting trophies...
Kenyan prosecutors on Thursday successfully blocked a controversial decision to grant bail to the suspected ringleader of a global ivory smuggling gang, arguing he may again try to flee the country...
Environmental Resources Management (ERM), a global sustainability consultancy, has designed a bespoke smartphone app for easy use, to assist low-literate and non-literate village scouts to record elephant movement and poaching activities in Tanzania...
China is exploiting Africa's resources just like European colonisers did, with disastrous effects for the environment, acclaimed primatologist Jane Goodall told AFP.
An average of about 45 elephants per day were illegally killed in 2011 in every two of five protected sites holding elephant populations in Africa, thanks to the growing illegal trade in ivory.
Pavithra Rao 13 Jan 2014
HARARE: Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Authority says more than 100 elephants in the country have been killed by poachers using toxic cyanide in one of Africa's prime elephant sanctuaries over the past two months.
NAIROBI, KENYA: Kenyan customs officers have seized almost four tons of elephant ivory in two separate shipments, officials said as Africa sees a surge in poaching of the threatened animals.
It is easy to be cynical about The Palace of the Lost City and to dismiss it simply as the fantasy creation of The Sun King, but it is precisely because it has been entirely envisioned by someone who...
Brian Berkman 4 Sep 2013
The South African government has drawn up and negotiated a number of memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with a number of countries and is in negotiations with critical range states, such as Mozambique. A delegation from the Lao People's Democratic Republic was recently hosted by a team of officials from the Department of Environmental Affairs to discuss possible areas of cooperation.
NAIROBI, KENYA: Officials in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa seized almost one and a half tons of ivory hacked out of poached elephants, a report revealed on Wednesday (3 July). This is the latest in a series of seizures by Kenyan authorities.
In what is believed to be the biggest bust yet of contraband ivory in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), 259 elephant tusks were seized by Dubai customs authorities on 1 May 2013 after a routine x-ray inspection of a container supposedly containing "wooden furniture" shipped from Mombasa, Kenya to Jebel Ali Port.
A 45-year-old man has appeared in the Thohoyandou Magistrate's Court for being in possession of two elephant tusks, said Limpopo police yesterday.
AsianScientist reports that two Vietnamese smugglers have been arrested at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport for attempting to smuggle rhino horns and elephant ivory out of the country. South African authorities arrested the two as they tried to leave the country.
When South Africa's new coat of arms was launched on Freedom Day, 27 April 2000, the motto chosen, ‘Unity in Diversity', called for the nation to “unite in a common sense of belonging and national pride”. Holding up the elephant tusks that symbolise wisdom, strength, and eternity on the national coat of arms, ‘Unity in Diversity' thus constitutes South Africa's "Brand Essence" - "a single thought that captures the soul of the brand" (David Aaker).
Dr Nikolaus Eberl 22 Sep 2009