poaching

Chinese version released – IF YOU BUY IVORY YOU KILL PEOPLE你买象牙就是杀人

你买象牙就是杀人 IF YOU BUY IVORY, YOU KILL PEOPLE

LAGA Wildlife Law Enforcement managed to get 3 ivory dealers arrested in Cameroon

Our Conservation Partner LAGA Wildlife Law Enforcement managed yesterday to get 3 ivory dealers arrested in Cameroon with 24 tusks, mostly of very young elephants. PLEASE re-post and support their very important activities in Central Africa: www.LAGA-Enforcement.org The LAGA model is currently operating in 6 countries: Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), Central African […]

Poachers killed over 11,000 forest elephants in Gabon, in less than ten years.

New alarming news: poachers killed over 11,000 forest elephants in Gabon, in less than ten years. Poachers have killed more than 11,000 elephants in Gabon’s Minkebe National Park rainforest since 2004, Gabon’s government said on Wednesday, with the massacre fuelled by increasing demand for ivory in Asia. The densely-forested central African country is home to […]

China’s demand for their tusks is a grave threat to Africa’s elephants

Editorial on The Times (London) China’s demand for their tusks is a grave threat to Africa’s elephants. China’s demand for their tusks is a grave threat to Africa’s elephants Affluent shoppers browsing Beijing’s ivory boutiques may tell themselves the trinkets they covet are carved from legal supplies, but they are almost certainly wrong. About 70 […]

Kenya: New Eye Opener Investigative Report on Poaching

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 […]

Tanzania: four suspected poachers killed in Serengeti

Tanzania: four suspected poachers killed in Serengeti National Park, after killing elephants, police reported on Sunday. Rangers recovered a sub machine gun (SMG), 367 rounds of ammunitions, as well as traditional weapons that included knives and machetes. “They also found an elephant killed by poachers at the scene and they were in the process of […]

Tanzanian parliament calls for stricter anti-poaching measures

Tanzania’s parliamentary committee for land, natural resources and environment is looking into scaling up anti-poaching efforts in the country, Tanzania’s Daily News reported Wednesday. Addressing the public after meeting with the Tanzania National Parks and the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlement Development, committee chairman James Lembeli advocated harsher punishments for poachers. “Current laws are outdated; those found guilty of poaching […]

Kenya’s Prime Minister appealed for international aid in helping deal with poaching

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 […]

Poachers killed a family of 12 elephants in Kenya

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 […]

Poaching & Ivory Trade: The Human Toll

Poaching & Ivory Trade: The Human Toll (New York Times) Rangers in isolated central Africa uncover grim cost of protecting wildlife. This is an issue very dear to EAL. Coldblooded murder, with dozens of African wildlife rangers killed in recent years, many in revenge-driven ambushes. “Kenya, which is considered tame compared with some of these […]

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