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 …
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 …
At least 500 elephants may have been killed during South Sudan’s two-year civil war, including 15 slaughtered in one day last month, the African nation’s wildlife service said. The oil-producing country’s elephants, which numbered 5,000 in a 2012 nationwide survey, are still at heavy risk from poaching, said Major-General Philip …
Luanda — The ministers of Hotels and Tourism of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Angolan Secretary of State of the referred sector Alfredo Varo Kaputo, approved on 29 January in Zimbabwe, the Master Plan for the integrated development of Cross-Border Conservation Area Kavango and Zambezi (KAZA ATFC), Angop has …
JORHAT: Third rhino has been killed by poachers in last 40 days in Kaziranga National Park of Assam, a senior forest official said on Tuesday. The poachers killed the female adult rhino in the early hours on Monday on the westernmost side of Bagori, divisional forest officer of the Unesco-declared …
The pangolin is gifted with a unique defence mechanism of rolling into a ball that protects it against predators, but is helpless against better equipped poachers.The toothless mammal, also called scaly ant-eater, was the most traded species in the country last year. A recent study by TRAFFIC -India, a wildlife …
The draft third National Wildlife Action Plan (NWAP) 2017-2031 unveiled by the environment ministry accords special emphasis to rehabilitation of threatened species of wildlife while conserving their habitats which include inland aquatic, coastal and marine eco-systems. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has been implementing the National Wildlife …
A proposed revision to China‘s Wildlife Protection Law is being criticized by conservationists who fear it could legitimize the commercial exploitation of endangered species, such as tigers, bears and pangolins. “This is not a step forward,” said Toby Zhang, director of Ta Foundation, an animal protection organization based in Beijing. …
Songbirds are a culinary delicacy in Cyprus — but catching and eating them is illegal. Even so, the practice is on the rise and could be threatening rare species. Original Source
Jorhat/Guwahati: Assam's Kaziranga National Park has lost two rhinos to poachers in four days. With this, the number of rhinos killed this month has risen to three. One rhino was killed and de-horned by poachers near Tunikati anti-poaching camp under the park's Burapahar forest range at 1am on Wednesday and …
Rhino poaching in South Africa has decreased for the first time since 2007, experts say. Compared to the 1,215 rhinos illegally killed in 2014, only 1,175 rhinos were lost in 2015. This slight improvement, however, was greatly offset by alarming poaching rates recorded in neighboring countries. A mother's diet is …
Yahoo Japan said Wednesday it is strengthening policing of illegal ivory on its online commerce site as criticism grows it is supporting a trade that fuels the slaughter of wild elephants. A spokeswoman for the company said it prohibits sales of raw ivory and ivory products that breach a 1989 …
GUWAHATI: Kaziranga National Park, a Unesco world heritage site about 250km from here, lost its second rhino to poachers in two weeks on the first month of new year. The latest rhino was poached on Sunday, taking the toll to two this year so far. The killing took place near …
Finnish hunters have been authorised to kill nearly 20% of the country’s wolf population in a controversial trial cull that begins this weekend, aimed at managing stocks. Authorities hope the sanctioned hunt of nearly 50 of the country’s estimated 250 grey wolves will curb illegal poaching, which some rural landowners …
The announcement that South African rhino poaching deaths fell slightly in 2015 adds a misleading gloss to another devastating year in which criminal gangs expanded their operations into new, even more delicate rhinoceros populations. South Africa’s environment minister Edna Molewa said on Thursday that 1,175 dead rhinos were discovered during …
CITES called on Tanzania and Mozambique – both of which have lost more than half their elephants since 2009 – to take critical steps against ivory trafficking before its next meeting in September. Meanwhile, the committee recommended that Angola, Laos and Nigeria should face sanctions on trade in CITES-listed species …
The number of rhinos killed by poachers in Zimbabwe more than doubled last year to at least 50, a rhino conservation group has said. Zimbabwe experienced high levels of rhino poaching in 2008 and 2009, but the country brought it under control in subsequent years, resulting in the lowest level …
Muscat: Oman Air, the National Carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, is fully aware of the importance to conserve the national resources and supports of the efforts exerted by the international community in this regard, which aims to develop and implement international conventions to protect wildlife. There is an urgent …
Two critically endangered sea species, including the world’s smallest porpoise, are in imminent danger of extinction due to an illegal trade in fish swim bladders so valuable that they are known as “aquatic cocaine”. British conservationists warn that the vaquita porpoise could be extinct by 2018 because of the continued …
Rubirizi — Six elephants were killed by poachers in Queen Elizabeth National Park in September, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has said, describing it as a setback in efforts to conserve the animals that are facing extinction. The manager Queen Elizabeth protected area, Mr Nelson Guma, said the killing of …
Zimbabwe is to increase the export of wildlife, including elephants, to China, the environment minister says. The move will reduce the chances of elephants dying because of drought, Oppah Muchinguri is quoted by the state-owned Herald newspaper as saying. Critics have previously condemned the exports as "stealing from the future …
