Mozambique to create armed force with ex-soldiers to halt slaughter of elephants and rhinos, also across the border with South Africa. More than 688 rhinos have been poached in South Africa so far in 2013 compared with 668 in 2012, according to official figures. About 418 of those have occurred in Kruger National Park, on […]
Three female elephants begin long journey from Toronto Zoo to a California sanctuary. After a life in prison, for our amusement, they were finally pardoned. Two of them, Toka and Iringa, were captured as baby elephants in Mozambique in the early ’70s, in a very traumatic way. Thika was born in captivity in 1980. At the […]
Only in 2013 and only in the port of Hong Kong, so far the custom seized over 3,350 ivory tusks. It’s more than 1,675 dead elephants who ended up in this Chinese port. Customs commonly assumes a 10% seizure success rate. You do the math… China is acting as a vacuum cleaner for elephants, and […]
Tanzania’s Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Hon. Khamis Kagasheki recently publicly named 4 Members of Parliament that are involved in poaching. They are from Namtumbo, Tunduru, Masasi and Liwale Districts. Their names are Mrs Faith Mitambo, Mr Mtutura Abdallah, Mrs Mariam Kasembe and Mr Vita Kawawa. Two of them have been strong critics of […]
So far, official data says 90 elephants have died in Zimbabwe from cyanide used to poison salt licks at watering holes. The actual death toll could be as high as 100. This is among the worst ecological disasters ever seen in Zimbabwe. The list of those responsible is long, longer than you might think: poachers, traffickers, […]
As reported by Ofir Drori, Founder of LAGA (part of the EAGLE network): LAGA’s work resulted in two more successful operations last week – A Chinese national arrested with giant pangolin scales, and an ivory trafficker arrested with two elephant jaws, both trafficker still locked. This week a notorious poacher that has enjoyed impunity for many years and kept being arrested and released by […]
EAL’s director Andrea Crosta to AFP, France24 News and Fox News: “The ivory trade, legal or illegal, supplies funds to criminals and terrorists who kill people. We’re asking the international community to start considering all the ivory and rhino horn trade’s stakeholders, ivory consumers, ivory shops and even governments, de-facto accessories to manslaughter, human exploitation […]
A major project was announced today by the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to help curb elephant poaching in Africa. We naturally support this big initiative but we urge the partners and participants to really work together (not just on paper) and to be creative and courageous in their approach. To win this war we need […]
On an article just published on TreeHugger.com, Elephant Action League (EAL) is mentioned as the first that found out already 3 years ago the link between ivory and the activities of the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab. In 2010-2011, EAL’s director Mr Andrea Crosta and advisor Mr Nir Kalron (Founder & CEO of Maisha Consulting) conducted a […]
To the Vietnamese and Chinese consumers who take the horn as a virility enhancer: Your Penis Will Remain (Very) Small. To the Vietnamese and Chinese consumers who take the horn as a cure for cancer: You Will Die. To the Vietnamese and Chinese consumers who take the horn to cure hangovers: Your Liver Will Explode. […]
