Today the Philippines became the world’s first Asian country to destroy its national confiscated ivory stock. It’s also the first time that an ivory-consumer country gets rid of the stock, sending a very clear messages to other Asian and African countries: stop the ivory trade and don’t put a value on the existing stocks. We all […]
Elephants killers, a new video. First ever access to tribal poachers in Kenya who are both hunters and hunted. This is something few have seen before —a journey into the bush with heavily armed African poachers who are actively hunting and killing elephants. Shot, produced and edited by Matt Goldman Watch the video here
In Zambia we have diplomats & an Army commander’s entourage smuggling ivory to China. And lots of sweeping under the carpet. What a surprise… The first suspects were intercepted at the International Airport in Lusaka a fortnight ago and they pleaded diplomatic immunity when they were probed. And last week Zambia security officials discovered elephant tusks […]
BREAKING NEWS: Philippines to burn five tons of confiscated tusks worth $10 million. Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said the seized ivory tusks will be crushed by a road roller and burned in the presence of foreign experts and anti-ivory trade advocates on June 21 at the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center in Quezon City. The […]
Major breakthrough by authorities in China in the clampdown on criminal syndicates behind the illegal smuggling of ivory. Court case verdict reveals true scale of 2011’s “Annus horribilis” for African Elephants. These seizures had not previously been officially reported to ETIS and brings the total weight of ivory seized in 2011 to a staggering 46.5 […]
Dubai customs authorities have announced the seizure of 259 elephant tusks, from Kenya, disguised as ‘furniture’ It is the biggest bust yet of contraband ivory in the UAE. So far this year, at least 5 tonnes of ivory have been reported seized – 1 tonne seized in Hong Kong, exported from Mombasa; 2 tonnes seized […]
Just 5,000 have survived. An elephant holocaust within the human holocaust. In early 1980s South Sudan recorded more than 130,000 elephants but the liberation struggle that lasted for about three decades wiped out almost all of them. Presently in the entire country, apparently just about 3.9 percent of elephants have survived, which constitutes just about […]
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 […]
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 […]
