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 …
Nairobi — President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday visited the Nairobi National Park ahead of the April event when he will preside over the destruction of massive stockpiles of ivory. At the event, Kenya will torch 120 tonnes of ivory, just 17 short of Kenya's total stockpiles and 1.5 tonnes of …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Social Action For Forest & Environment (SAFE) Vs Uttarakhand Forest Department & Others dated 21/03/2016 regarding construction of 2 km length of wall on the right bank of Song river in Rajaji National Park, Motichur range of Rajaji National Park, …
DEHRADUN: A day after the special task force (STF) of Uttarakhand police seized the skins of five big cats from a gang of poachers, a red alert was issued in the entire Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR). It also emerged that the state forest department, which went into a huddle soon …
Darchula police on Sunday made public two people who were arrested earlier on the charge of wildlife poaching. The accused are Janak Bahadur Shahi, 39, of Jubidha-8, Kalikot and Kalamram Parki, 30, of Sunsera-2, Darchula. They were detained for their involvement in the illegal killing of snow leopard, put in …
Tanzania is working on a new security strategy that will help curb poaching of elephants and other crimes against wildlife within and outside protected areas. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Jumanne Maghembe said the new security strategy will involve training a special force that will be equipped with …
The Minister of Land, Environment and Rural Development, Celso Correia, announced in Maputo on 3 March that during 2015 the Mozambican authorities detained over 300 people in connection with poaching. He was speaking at commemorations of World Wildlife Day, at a time when the country's wild life is under serious …
The number of rhinos killed by poachers in Africa rose for the sixth year in a row, threatening the survival of the endangered animals. At least 1,338 rhinos were killed by poachers across Africa in 2015, according to data by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Since 2008, at …
A new smartphone app developed in St Petersburg in Florida, USA is being used to fight poachers in northern Kenya. The app known as the Fulcrum app, has been used for years by businesses and municipalities to collect forms and field data using customizable smartphone apps. Now, the geospatial technology …
A GLOBAL report has painted a gloomy picture on the future of Zimbabwe's elephant herd, revealing shocking evidence that the number of Jumbos killed by poachers in Chewore alone increased by 12 percent last year. This was a period when authorities increased efforts to stem a ruthless slaughter of elephants …
The mass slaughter of rhinos has increased for the sixth year in a row, according to grim new figures from international researchers. At least 1,338 of the iconic animals were killed for their horns in Africa last year. This is the greatest loss in a single year since an intense …
The number of elephants being killed for their ivory has stabilised but overall species numbers have continued to decline. Data produced for 2015 shows that poachers are still killing more elephants than are born every year. The report also highlighted a rising trend in poaching in South Africa's Kruger National …
Barack Obama has said that urgent action is needed to save elephants from becoming extinct in the wild, adding that failure to do so would be an “unpardonable loss for humanity and the natural world”. The president said that the US has made “unprecedented progress” in protecting wildlife domestically and …
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 …
Namibian police say they have found 34 rhino carcasses in the country in January and February this year. The rhino carcasses were found during an aerial search last month. Twenty-nine of them were found in Etosha Game Park, which is home to the biggest rhino population in the country. The …
Solar-powered trackers on wings have recorded California condors soaring to 15,000 feet, while locators attached to humpback whales have revealed 1,000-foot dives to underwater mountains. And GPS collars on Yellowstone grizzly bears are giving new insight into one of the most studied large carnivore populations in the world. Technological advances …
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 …
Many threatened species rely on ecotourism for conservation funding, but simultaneously suffer direct ecological impacts from ecotourism. For a range of IUCN-Redlisted terrestrial and marine bird and mammal species worldwide, we use population viability analyses to calculate the net effects of ecotourism on expected time to extinction, in the presence …
Seven elephants have died in two conservancies around the Maasai Mara Game Reserve in the last one week in unclear circumstances. The elephants were in Naiboisho and Mara North conservancies in Narok West. Tests carried out on the carcasses by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) have not yet shown anything, …
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 …
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 …
