New report says that warlord Joseph Kony, gave the order to butcher elephants for their ivory as far back as 2010. The U.S.-based watchdog group Resolve said in a report in April that Kony recently directed killings from an enclave protected by the Sudanese military. Former senior fighters who defected from the group report that […]
EAL’s Conservation Partner Sean Willmore (President of the The Thin Green Line Foundation & the International Ranger Federation) discussing with Prince William the dangers that park rangers face in the field combatting poachers and wildlife crime (1,000 killed in 10 years), and the need to support them and their widows. http://www.thingreenline.org.au/ You Buy Ivory, You Kill […]
UN says that Libya war weapons may be killing central Africa elephants. In a report to the UN Security Council, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said elephant poaching was a growing security concern, particularly in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad and Gabon. Ban said the illegal trade in ivory may be an important source of […]
At least 26 elephants massacred in World Heritage site in the Central African Republic. Four of the elephants were calves. 17 individuals armed with Kalashnikov rifles on Monday entered this unique elephant habitat, known locally as the “village of elephants”. More information here
A great inspiring article by Paula Kahumbu. How Kenya can save its elephants. “…Thanks to greater media coverage, Kenyans are now aware that our elephants are under greater pressure than in the last 20 years, and our populations are now declining. It is time to wake up to the fact that it is not just […]
ALERT: Poachers have entered one of Africa’s most unique elephant habitats on Monday. Conservationists fear massacre. According to WWF sources, in Central African Republic a group of 17 armed individuals on Monday entered the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park and headed for the Dzanga Bai, locally known as the “village of elephants”, a large clearing where between 50 […]
Tanzanian elephants could be extinct within 7 Years if current poaching trends continue, according to the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute. “If this poaching trend is left unchecked, obviously the elephant population will disappear in the next seven years,” Lembeli said, according to Tanzania’s The Guardian. “This is a national disaster. The government and its agencies […]
A total of 120 wildlife and forest guards had been attacked between 2011 and 2013, some were attacked in church while others were attacked in their offices with guns and machetes. 62 of them got died. The Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Mr Samuel Afari Dartey, made this known at a press briefing […]
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 […]
High Alarm in Central African Republic after government overthrow: elephant poaching is rising dramatically and elephant meat is now flooding food markets in villages near a famed wildlife reserve. The infamous Sudanese poachers are now working in tandem with armed rebels from the group known as Seleka, which now has seized control of the federal […]
