Tag: Wildlife smuggling

Vietnam police seized more than 100 kilograms of rhino horn smuggled into the country in suitcases from Kenya on Tuesday, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Judith Garber will travel ...

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

Johannesburg (AFP) - Delegates at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Johannesburg voted Wednesday to ban ...

Johannesburg (AFP) - Delegates at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Johannesburg voted Wednesday to ban ...

Johannesburg (AFP) - The shy, scale-covered pangolin is to receive the highest level of protection against illegal trade to try ...

Over that period alone an estimated 6.8% of the continent's elephant population was wiped out by the illegal ivory trade, ...