Apart from poaching and habitat loss, climate change-induced droughts have been threatening the rhino population in Africa, pointed out a new report. On the other hand, climate disruptions in Asia can lead to the deaths of rhinos. Increased precipitation, longer monsoons and seasonal floods are already resulting in stranding, drowning …
Elephants are known for their gentle nature and impeccable memory. However, these gentle giants own amazing ivory tusks that make them target to poachers and hunters when left in the wild. With their 22-month gestation period, it takes a while for them to maintain their population, let alone increase them …
A gang of five poachers including a sharpshooter from Manipur, who were about to kill rhino at Orang National Park (ONP) in Assam, was arrested during a raid by forest officials and police on Sunday late evening. Mangaldoi wildlife divisional forest officer, Sunnydeo Choudhury said that the poachers had already …
THREE Zambians and a Namibian, the latter suspected to be a former policeman, were arrested last Friday after poaching a black rhino at the Erindi private game reserve near Omaruru. According to Alexander Steyn, who heads the Omaruru District Watch, a massive operation involving the district watch, game reserve personnel, …
In the Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya, when the fierce heat of the sun has softened into a gentle evening glow, David Daballen and I climb into a jeep to find some elephants. As we drive through the savannah, Daballen, a conservationist at Save the Elephants, points out family …
In an alarmingly steep fall in the population of a protected species, blackbuck numbers in Bareilly district have fallen by more than 71%, from 578 in 2013 to just 171 in 2016. While experts allege poaching to be the main reason behind the decimation of blackbuck numbers, forest officials have …
Africa's rare forest elephants which play a key role in replenishing the central African rainforests will need almost a century to recover from an onslaught by ivory poachers because of their slow birth rate, a study published on Wednesday said. The study by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society is …
At best, just 2,500 Indochinese leopards survive today across Southeast Asia. They have been eradicated from 93% of their historic habitat by snares, poachers, deforestation and declines in prey. Can conservationists stop the bleeding before its too late? Conservationists have long known that it’s hard – and in some cases …
Two dogs — Jenny, a Belgian Malinois dog, and Dexter, an English springer spaniel — are members of a new team of specially trained dogs and handlers from Tanzanian National Parks (TANAPA), according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Following a tipoff, Jenny and her handler successfully detected four concealed …
A newly deployed team of specially trained dogs have helped authorities in Tanzania seize a haul of elephant tusks, with conservationists hoping the canine allies can help significantly slow rampant poaching in the country. The dogs – Jenny, a Belgian Malinois, and Dexter, an English springer spaniel – discovered the …
The first ever Zoohackathon will convene this October 7-9 across six zoos in the US, Europe, Asia and Pacific. Organized by the US Department of State, Association of Zoos and Aquariums and World Wildlife Fund, the hackathon will address the increasingly rampant global challenge of wildlife trafficking. “The idea is …
An international team of researchers makes the case that integrating multiple technologies could greatly increase our ability to study ecological patterns and processes across large landscapes and long timeframes, allowing for threats to protected areas to be better identified and mitigated. Traditional field inventories and other sampling strategies will always …
The brutal killing of an adult male tiger on August 12 in Bandipur Tiger Reserve points to a clear cut case of poaching, say wildlife conservationists from this area. They say that the continuing delay in investigations and tardy progress, in fact, raises many questions as lax and ineffective patrolling …
That African elephants are in deep trouble has been widely publicized in recent years. They’re being poached at an unsustainable rate, and their numbers have dropped from 600,000 a decade ago to some 400,000 today. That’s why next month’s meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of …
The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) sitting in Arusha has added its voice in the fight against poaching. The region has been used as a conduit for illegal game trophies for many years. But it has also contributed to the trade that has been taken over by organised crime syndicates. …
An additional 307 wildlife rangers have been deployed to the Maasai Mara Game Reserve to boost security and fight poaching. The rangers were trained at the Manyani Wildlife Training College for the last nine months and graduated on Tuesday at ceremony attended by KWS Director Kitili Mbathi, Narok Governor Samuel …
Wildlife experts and volunteers have been scouring the forest, trying to locate the 250-kilogram tiger, who was last spotted on April 18. As the hunt for tiger Jai continued after it went missing from Umred Karhandla wildlife sanctuary near Nagpur, state Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar today said he would write …
The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) is calling on East African Community Partner States to enact new wildlife legislation with enhanced penalties and improve strategies and protection measures in a bid to save the region's wildlife. Findings by EALA's committee on agriculture, tourism and natural resources indicate that elephants and …
For 20,000 years the remains of millions of woolly mammoths remained locked in permafrost in Siberia and elsewhere—until recently. Warming temperatures have melted this icy layer, bringing their valuable ivory teeth within grasp and leading to a burgeoning trade. For several years conservationists have said this trade is hurting mammoths’ …
NEW DELHI: Seeking to provide more teeth to the existing wildlife protection law, the Centre is looking for an option to introduce clauses of stricter punishment and to change the law to bring it in sync with international conventions which target the trade in endangered species. One of the proposals …
Countries opposed to Kenya's bid to have the global trade of ivory banned are spoiling for a fight ahead of the United Nation's meeting next month in South Africa. The 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna …
