S.Africa’s Top Court Opens Up Domestic Trade In Rhino Horn
South Africa's highest court Wednesday rejected a bid by the government to keep a ban on domestic trade in rhino ...
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‘Illegal Miner’ Dares Akufo-Addo In Viral Video
A middle-aged man claiming to be an illegal miner, has warned President Akufo-Addo not to initiate moves to stop illegal ...
‘Illegal Miner’ Dares Nana Addo In Viral Video
A middle-aged man claiming to be an illegal miner, has warned President Akufo-Addo not to initiate moves to stop illegal ...
Hope For Elephants As Ivory Prices Fall
The price of ivory has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the last three years, according to research conducted in China ...
Hong Kong Convicts Two For Ivory On Radiocarbon Dating
A Hong Kong court has convicted two men for illegal possession of ivory chopsticks after radiocarbon dating proved it was ...
Poachers Kill Rare Giant Elephant In Kenya
One of Africa's oldest and largest elephants was killed by poachers in Kenya on Monday, according to a conservation group ...
Tanzania Jails Notorious Elephant Poacher
Tanzania’s most notorious elephant poacher, nicknamed “The Devil”, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Boniface Matthew Maliango was ...
S. Africa Rhino Poaching Dipped In 2016, Stays Above 1,000
Poachers killed 1,054 South African rhinos for their horns in 2016, a 10 percent dip on a year earlier, the ...
Poachers Kill Two Rhinos At South African Orphanage
More than 700 rhinos were killed in South Africa in the first half of last year Poachers have killed two ...
Bushmeat Trade Tests Cameroon’s Ebola Prevention
The market in Ambam, a colonial town with brick-red cottages and rusty roofs, near the southern borders with Equatorial Guinea ...
Gabon’s Forest Elephants Slain For Ivory At Alarming Rate
Poachers are killing elephants for their ivory at an alarming rate in the central African nation of Gabon, leading to ...
Environmental Lawyer Murdered In Philippines
A Philippine lawyer who specialised in investigating crimes against the environment has been ambushed and shot dead, police said Friday. ...
The Fishy Tale That Won’t Go!
If you ignore a problem over a long period, it becomes part of the status quo. This is what we ...
Gov’t Urged To Decentralise Minerals Commission Operations
The government has been called upon to decentralised the operations of the Minerals Commission (MC) in the mining related areas ...
China Announces Ban On Ivory Trade By End of 2017
China has announced a ban on all ivory trade and processing activities by the end of 2017. Conservation groups hailed ...
South African Minister Linked To Rhino Trafficker
Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit has uncovered evidence of high-level political connections to rhino poaching in Africa. The investigation raises serious ...
Chinese Delegations In Illegal Spending Spree In SA
Members of the Chinese President’s delegation allegedly went on an illegal spending spree in SA to buy ivory and rhino ...
Prof. Adei To Go On ‘one-Man Aluta’ To Halt Galamsey
Outspoken Ghanaian economist, Professor Stephen Adei, has served notice he will embark on a “one man aluta” to compel the ...
We Will Build 10 Landing Sites For Fishing Communities
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it will build ten (10) landing sites in various fishing communities along the country’s ...
German Minister For the Environment To Visit Kenya
The German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Dr. Barbara Hendricks, will visit Kenya from ...