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 ...
Tag: Poaching
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 ...
Canada Conservationist Warns of ‘cyber Poaching’
Photographers, poachers and eco-tour operators are in the crosshairs of a Canadian conservationist who warns that tracking tags are being ...
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 ...
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 Police Probing Allegation of Rhino Poaching Against Minister
Since 2008 poachers have killed at least 5,940 African rhinos South Africa's cabinet said on Thursday the police were investigating ...
South African Minister Denies Rhino Poaching Allegation
The current poaching crisis is attributed to the growing demand for rhino horns South Africa's Minister of State Secuirty David ...
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 ...
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 ...
Global Meeting Votes For Trade Ban On Endangered Pangolins
Johannesburg (AFP) - Delegates at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Johannesburg voted Wednesday to ban ...
All Global Trade Banned In Endangered Pangolins
Johannesburg (AFP) - The shy, scale-covered pangolin is to receive the highest level of protection against illegal trade to try ...
Three-Year African Elephant Census Reveals Dramatic Decline
Nairobi (AFP) - The results of a three-year aerial survey of Africa's elephants published Thursday revealed a dramatic 30 percent ...
High Demand for Ivory In China Is Threatening Elephants in Africa
Over that period alone an estimated 6.8% of the continent's elephant population was wiped out by the illegal ivory trade, ...