The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a message for would-be wildlife traffickers: there’s a new dog in town, and if you try to bring illegal wildlife parts into the country, there’s a good chance he’s going to sniff you out. And there are more just like him. That’s because today, the first class of […]
NEWS: Zimbabwe has enacted new laws imposing stiffer penalties of up to 11 years of jail for poaching of elephants and protected animals. The Elephant Advocacy League praises this new law. This is the direction to take for all African countries. But let’s not forget that Zimbabwe currently has a stockpile of over 50 tonnes […]
Egypt remains a hot spot for wildlife crime and the illegal trade in ivory and baby chimpanzees. More than 30 years after the ivory ban, Egypt remains Africa’s third-largest illegal market for ivory. The ivory arrives from Sudan, and is often traced back to Kenya, Tanzania and Cote d’Ivoire. Egypt’s involvement with the trafficking of […]
China is the culprit n.1 for elephant poaching and the ivory trade, BUT… A Chinese smuggler recently caught in Kenya with a haul of ivory was fined less than a dollar a piece and set free! Is this a serious anti-poaching national policy? The Chinese smuggler, Mr. Tian Yi, was arrested on Sunday while in […]
The prestigious Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Awards. Hundreds of delegates attending the 16th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES gathered to honor the heroic efforts of wildlife law enforcement officers who often put their lives in jeopardy to protect wildlife and uphold the rule of law. The Elephant Advocacy League covered […]
On the 13th of March the South African National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA) received an anonymous tip-off that five (5) elephant calves had been removed from their herds and that their mothers were to be shot at Sandhurst Safaris, Tosca in the North West Province. The juvenile elephants were to be transported via road from the […]
Central African countries agreed to mobilize as many as 1,000 soldiers and law-enforcement officials to combat a group of 300 elephant poachers from Sudan. It comes after horsemen slaughtered 89 elephants in Chad on the night of March 14 and 15 in the worst poaching incident in the region since February last year, when 300 […]
Please share this EAL’s campaign, the first of this kind! Poor villagers are pushed into elephant poaching and crime by greedy businessmen, traders and Chinese/Arab traffickers. Yes, powerful criminal groups are involved, but locally in Africa this “Ivory Addiction” is often killing people, destroying families and leaving orphans behind. At the link below an example from […]
To stop the massacre of elephants conservation groups, including the Elephant Advocacy League, are fighting poachers with eye-in-the-sky drones. These unmanned aerial vehicles are giving rangers new tools in the fight against the illegal wildlife trade of not only ivory but also rhinos, hides from tigers and other big cats. The World Wildlife Fund will […]
The US Department of the Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded $1.5 million to continue efforts to protect African elephants and their habitat, according to federalgrantswire.com. The funds will go to “any African government agency responsible for African elephant conservation and protection and any other organization or individual with demonstrated experience in African elephant conservation,” […]
