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 untouchable well known lords of poaching in Samburu. They are well known by the locals and operate big shops in town. They sponsor young men to kill elephants and rhinos but they are never arrested. Investigations by the Star newspaper established that the architects of poaching are based in Archers Post, a small tourist town […]
Kenyan authorities have arrested five ivory smugglers holding Vietnamese passports as the East African nation stepped up anti-poaching measures. Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said the five suspects were arrested on Tuesday night at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) while on transit from Luanda, Angola to Bangkok, Thailand, aboard a Kenya Airways flight KQ771. The KWS announcement comes in the wake of Jan. 15’s seizure of […]
Officials in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa have impounded more than 600 pieces of ivory, weighing two tonnes. “They were labelled as decorating stones and were headed to Indonesia from Tanzania,” a police source based at the port told AFP on condition of anonymity. The head of operations at the port confirmed the seizure, […]
Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga appealed yesterday for international aid in helping the east African country deal with poaching. Odinga said that tourism, Kenya’s most important foreign exchange earner, “remains under serious assault from poachers.” “I appeal to the international community to help strengthen the national and international policing to deal with wildlife trafficking as […]
BREAKING NEWS: Poachers killed a family of 12 elephants in the biggest single mass shooting of the animals on record in Kenya. A gang of about 10 attackers hacked off the elephants’ tusks in Tsavo East National Park on Saturday, officials said – the latest sign of a resurgence of mostly Asian demand for ivory […]
Large operation and 48 kg ivory seized in Kenya. Kenya Wildlife Service said they have seized 48 kg of ivory, over 700 rounds of ammunition and arrested 46 suspected poachers from across the country in anti-poaching operations in the past week. The anti-poaching efforts and subsequent arrests were made in different parts of the country […]
