Tag: Environmental crime

South Africa's highest court Wednesday rejected a bid by the government to keep a ban on domestic trade in rhino ...

A middle-aged man claiming to be an illegal miner, has warned President Akufo-Addo not to initiate moves to stop illegal ...

A middle-aged man claiming to be an illegal miner, has warned President Akufo-Addo not to initiate moves to stop illegal ...

The price of ivory has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the last three years, according to research conducted in China ...

A Hong Kong court has convicted two men for illegal possession of ivory chopsticks after radiocarbon dating proved it was ...

One of Africa's oldest and largest elephants was killed by poachers in Kenya on Monday, according to a conservation group ...

Tanzania’s most notorious elephant poacher, nicknamed “The Devil”, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Boniface Matthew Maliango was ...

Poachers killed 1,054 South African rhinos for their horns in 2016, a 10 percent dip on a year earlier, the ...

More than 700 rhinos were killed in South Africa in the first half of last year Poachers have killed two ...

The market in Ambam, a colonial town with brick-red cottages and rusty roofs, near the southern borders with Equatorial Guinea ...

Poachers are killing elephants for their ivory at an alarming rate in the central African nation of Gabon, leading to ...

A Philippine lawyer who specialised in investigating crimes against the environment has been ambushed and shot dead, police said Friday. ...

If you ignore a problem over a long period, it becomes part of the status quo.  This is what we ...

The government has been called upon to decentralised the operations of the Minerals Commission (MC) in the mining related areas ...

China has announced a ban on all ivory trade and processing activities by the end of 2017. Conservation groups hailed ...

Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit has uncovered evidence of high-level political connections to rhino poaching in Africa. The investigation raises serious ...

Members of the Chinese President’s delegation allegedly went on an illegal spending spree in SA to buy ivory and rhino ...

Outspoken Ghanaian economist, Professor Stephen Adei, has served notice he will embark on a “one man aluta” to compel the ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it will build ten (10) landing sites in various fishing communities along the country’s ...

The German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Dr. Barbara Hendricks, will visit Kenya from ...