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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
