Mr Gill Staden on eTN describes the upcoming IUCN meeting in Botswana on the poaching emergency as a “missed opportunity” because the agenda does not include the issue of the alleged elephant over-population in the country. The Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) last August called for the ‘necessity to balance the elephants role’. […]
This is one of the most beautiful photos of elephants that our team has ever seen. We see absolute beauty, solitude, tenderness, silence, happiness in fear. Lake Kariba, on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe Photo by Richard Packwood 2013 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Out Of Garamba, intO uGanda. Poaching and trade of ivory in Garamba National Park and LRA-affected areas in Congo. By Kristof Titeca Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB), University of Antwerp ABSTRACT Ivory poaching and trading in central and eastern Africa has recently received a lot of attention. On the one hand, there have […]
U.S. Ivory Crush Should Be Just a First Step by Bryan Christy “This Thursday, the United States government will destroy nearly six tons of ivory, which represents a good portion of the ivory the U.S. has seized since the late 1980s, when anational ban on commercial African ivory imports went into effect. It will be […]
Tanzania, further success from the recent crackdown on poaching and trafficking, Operation Tokomeza. Additional 89 elephant tusks were found in a car. Natural Resources and Tourism Minister Kagasheki has asked the public to “be tolerant” and collaborate. Apart from the ivory, the officers also found thousands of pieces of illegal timber. Last Saturday three Chinese were […]
Short-term fixes won’t save Africa’s wildlife from desperate poachers “…As with the drug trade, real answers are long-term in nature. Increased attention must be paid to the higher-level echelons in the illegal ivory trade. Breaking up the sophisticated networks that get illegal African ivory from the poacher to the end purchaser may be more successful at […]
You want to know why Chinese buy ivory and rhino horn? What drives the demand? Who are the Chinese who go to Africa? How Chinese people see Africa and Africans? A very interesting analysis/perspective by a Chinese journalist and investigator. “…But ivory is different. Although the per kg value of ivory is far less than […]
U.S. anti-poaching efforts need to go further, conservation groups including the Elephant Action League, say. On the today Washington Post ” A U.S. push to save the African elephant and rhinoceros from being wiped out by a wave of poaching comes down to this: an executive order by President Obama, an advisory panel, a task […]
Recent events and news have shown Zimbabwe for what it really is, a major regional and international hub for elephant poaching and ivory smuggling. First there was the poisoning. Poachers have killed more than 300 elephants and countless other wild animals with cyanide in waterholes. It’s ironic that the full extent of the devastation in the […]
The first destruction of ivory in the U.S. is now planned for November 14th. Six tons will be crushed at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, near Denver. The crushing was previously suspended after the shutdown began on Oct. 1 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will destroy government-held stockpile of ivory that it […]
