In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
As a major commercial hub for the Asia-Pacific region, Hawaii has long been considered one of the United States’ biggest markets for ivory sales – and therefore one of this country’s prime drivers of the elephant poaching crisis. In this groundbreaking study, investigators with IFAW, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Natural …
As rhino deaths have soared across South Africa, in Balule reserve the Black Mambas patrol of local women has achieved a 76% reduction in poaching since 2013. Now there are plans to extend the award-winning scheme “The Black Mambas are winning the war on poaching,” insists Siphiwe Sithole. “We have …
Hours after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal hit out at the Akalis, the Punjab government on Sunday on Sunday appointed a nodal officer at the district-level for checking illegal mining as well as for timely and effective redress of complaints. Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner Ravi Bhagat said a nodal …
Tobacco related illegal logging has in the last two years doubled to 30 percent of the national total, latest data from the Forestry Commission of Zimbabwe shows, placing ecosystems and biodiversity in extended danger. The data also demonstrates that interventions by Government, the Forestry Commission and the tobacco industry to …
Chris Packham, the naturalist and TV presenter, has said it is “disgusting and disappointing” that the UK’s wildlife crime agency faces closure in six weeks unless the government renews its funding. The national wildlife crime unit (NWCU) was established in 2006 to investigate offences including rare-bird egg theft, deer poaching, …
Conservationists have called for urgent action to stop armed militia and illegal mining in protected central African forests from driving the elusive okapi to extinction. A 10-year plan to save the “forest giraffe” drawn up by a coalition of conservation groups and NGOs calls for government and international commitments to …
Officials asked to take stern action against illegal transportation of sand. Kakinada: The Andhra Pradesh government has shelved e-auctions for sand mining in the state, saying that it was not able to get proper price in these auctions. The government felt that the guidelines for e-auctions and tenders for sand …
Mumbai: A representative from the union environment ministry and a divisional forest officer will now be part of a committee set up by the state government to issue licenses for sand mining for clearing navigation channels. This is being done on the directives of the Bombay high court. The order …
Sand & Stones Worth `6cr Are Moved Daily Along a massive 400-sq km belt, considered to be BSP legislator Md Iqbal's “empire“ -the man is being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate for allegedly amassing unaccounted wealth to the tune of Rs 10,000 crore -one just sees rows and rows of …
Trade in bioengineered rhino horn shouldn’t be allowed. That's the contention behind a petition filed today with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by the Center for Biological Diversity, a U.S.-based group that uses science and law to protect the environment, and WildAid, a nonprofit organization that aims to eliminate …
There is “no solid evidence” that an EU law has done anything to prevent the illegal timber trade or even that it has been implemented, according to a draft commission review seen by the Guardian. Nine EU countries have still not imposed penalties or taken action against timber traffickers and …
ZIMBABWE's wildlife is under threat from poachers sponsored by criminal syndicates operating in and outside the country who use cyanide to poison the animals, a senior Government official has said. Officially launching "The Elephant Dress" in support of wildlife on Monday in Harare, Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri …
Owners of firearms living near wildlife reserves have developed a partnership with poachers by lending the latter guns to illegally kill animals, investigations by the police force have revealed. Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ernest Mangu told reporters in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday that to fight the alliance between …
BOGOTA – The Colombian national ombudsman’s office said that even as the Andean nation suffers a drought, illegal mining activity annually contaminates 13 billion liters (3.4 billion gallons) of water with substances such as mercury and cyanide. Inspectors found those and other toxins in water in rural areas of Bolivar, …
Irregularities in storage of minerals in Srikakulam. Visakhapatnam: The Public Accounts Committee of the AP Legislative Assembly has exposed the illegal beach sand mining taking place in Srikakulam district, which is being said to be a scam running into thousands of crores of rupees. Trimax Sands has been violating norms …
To reduce incidents of human-animal conflicts, an environment ministry's draft wildlife conservation plan has suggested identification and documentation of wildlife species that regularly come into such conflict. "Identify and document the wide range of wildlife species that regularly come into conflict with humans, and prioritize the species that cause maximum …
Perturbed over illegal sand mining on Yamuna floodplains despite a ban, the National Green Tribunal has asked the Uttar Pradesh and Haryana governments to apprise it about the action they have taken against the violators. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the officers of Haryana and …
A large number of trees of different national and community forests had fallen due to heavy storms in mid-May last year. Though District Forest Office has took stock of the trees, it has not done anything to manage the logs so far. “A large number of logs have been smuggled …
Despite the National Green Tribunal (NGT) banning mining along the Neugal river last month, the illegality is being committed with impunity. A bench of the NGT headed by its chairman Justice Swatanter Kumar on the petition of local resident Baljeet Singh Bhateria had imposed the ban on mining, quarrying, lifting …
The National Green Tribunal has summoned officials of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana government for their failure to curb illegal sand mining on the floodplains of river Yamuna, already banned by the green panel. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed all concerned officers of Haryana and UP, …
