The story of hunting elephant’s killers in the Central African Republic. Mission objective: secure the elephants. It’s not the plot for a movie. It’s reality. It’s the ivory trade. Not many can or want to do it, but this is conservation now in many parts of Africa. A war. The full story of the “Israeli […]
A South African businessman, apparently active in elephant cyanide poisoning since 2009, is behind the recent killing of at least 64 elephants in Zimbabwe. Police named him only as Ishmael and reported how he used a local farmer and ivory buyer to distribute stocks of cyanide to local people. The technique was so effective at killing […]
A new important initiative against the ivory trade. The Elephant Action League strongly supports a new protest and a petition to get the Hong Kong government to burn their ivory stockpile and ban the domestic trade. The total stockpile could be as big as 25 tons. The petition organizers are two young girls, Lucy Lan […]
An ambitious anti-poaching & anti-trafficking operation has been unveiled in Tanzania. The government is about to mount a large operation to arrest poachers and dealers in ivory and publicize their names, some of them important people with important roles. Yes, name and shame them! More here: http://www.dailynews.co.tz/index.php/local-news/22219-ambitious-anti-poaching-operation-unveiled
The Obama administration said on Monday it would destroy all 6m tons of its stocks of seized ivory in effort to stop illegal elephant poaching The ivory destruction, announced at a White House event was part of a broader effort by the administration to elevate wildlife trafficking to urgent national security concern. Destroying the ivory would […]
EAL’s director Andrea Crosta returned from Tanzania where he saw the excellent anti-poaching work that PAMS Foundation (www.pamsfoundation.org) is doing in Ruaha National Park. In line with its Mission to fight wildlife crime through concrete projects in the field, The Elephant Action League supports the work of PAMS Foundation in Ruaha by co-funding (together with […]
Please repost The worldwide March for Elephants will be held in exactly one month, on October 4th, 2013, in cities all over the planet. This global event will raise awareness of the plight of the elephants, open eyes, motivate, and stir people to join this battle to save these magnificent creatures. Please participate and help […]
The new “nice habit” of elephant poachers: killing hundreds of vultures because by flying around a carcass they alert wildlife authorities. Last July around 600 vultures died at a single elephant carcass that was poisoned near Namibia’s Bwabwata National Park. Three other similar incidents in the same region have been reported since 2012, and every […]
In South Africa, Kruger National Park’s rangers deals big blow over weekend, arresting & killing several poachers. Rangers on the Mozambique’s side of the Kruger also had three contacts with three separate groups of poachers on Saturday and managed to arrest three suspects, coming out of and going into the park. National Parks authorities (SANParks) […]
Maybe something is changing in Kenya… A court sentenced a Chinese ivory smuggler to almost two and a half years in prison in a landmark ruling hailed as sending a powerful warning to poachers and smugglers. A Chinese woman, Chen Biemei, 30, was jailed for 31 months for trying to smuggle 6.9 kg of worked ivory […]
