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 …
The central African state of Gabon, home to half of Africa’s endangered forest elephants, has impounded more than 200kg (440lb) of ivory in what may be its largest seizure ever. Gabon is seeking to promote ecotourism and has poured money into protecting its 50,000 forest elephants, prized by ivory poachers …
Two Kenyan men have been charged with killing two lions and poisoning at least six others, a Kenyan wildlife official said on Tuesday, in a case involving a pride of lions which starred in a long-running BBC wildlife documentary. Simindei Naurobi and Kulankash Topotat pleaded not guilty to the charges, …
Government is now conceding that elephant poaching has reached unprecedented levels in Malawi national parks and game reserves forcing a high drop in tourism population in these sites. Director of Wildlife and Parks Brighton Kunchedwa said this on Monday in Blantyre during the opening of a two week workshop to …
The victims come from the Marsh Pride, a family of lions living in the Masai Mara National Reserve in southwest Kenya. They were the stars of the long-running and hugely popular BBC series called Big Cat Diary. They even have their own Facebook page, where the poisoning was confirmed. On …
Illegal ivory has halved in value in China according to new research, leading to hopes that the demand which drives poaching in Africa might be on the wane. Kenya-based conservation organisation Save the Elephants said Monday that the price of illegal raw ivory in China had fallen to $1,100 (1,000 …
ZIMBABWE lost about 24 000 elephants to poachers over the past 20 years, prejudicing the hard currency starved economy of an estimated US$3 billion in sport hunting fees alone, the Financial Gazette can report. Poachers have become a menace within Zimbabwe's animal sanctuaries where they are running rings around a …
First, 11 elephants were killed in Hwange National Park and 3 in Matusadona National Park. On October 26, the parks authority announced that another 22 had been poisoned and killed in Hwange. A week later, it was reported that cyanide had taken the lives of 26 in the park. And …
South Africa has stepped up its efforts to fight rhino poaching in the country’s flora and fauna-rich nature reserves, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has said. Addressing the second Interpol-United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Conference in Singapore on Monday, the minister said Kruger National Park has …
With large-scale hotels in and around the world heritage site of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) posing a threat to wildlife, especially the one-horned rhinoceros, the National Green Tribunal has sought to know how such activities came to be permitted by the State government. The Tribunal has summoned the Secretary, Department …
The continued existence of large stockpiles of legal raw ivory in the country is hampering China’s promises to save the elephant, says Li Zhang. Original Source
We report on illegal international trade in Indian Star Tortoises (Geochelone elegans), with a particular focus on India and Thailand.Within India, this species has received protection as a Schedule IV list species of the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 for over 40 years. This study documents the illegal trade of 55,000 …
Poachers managed to kill another rhino at Kaziranga, a world heritage site about 250 km from here, on Sunday, barely a week after the national park was opened to visitors. Kaziranga divisional forest officer S K Seal Sarma said the poachers were, however, unable to take away the horn, following …
Poaching and the trade in illegal animal goods have been placed in the same category as drug and weapons smuggling by a new law passed in the US. The Global Anti-Poaching Act passed by the US House of Representatives aims to “support global anti-poaching efforts, strengthen the capacity of partner …
Three journalists from a state-owned paper in Zimbabwe have been arrested and will be charged with publishing falsehoods over a report about the poisoning of elephants, the police say. A Sunday Mail article alleged that a syndicate, including a top police officer, was behind the recent use of cyanide to …
How would you know where a tiger claw came from? Scientists are compiling a DNA database of tigers from all over India. If there’s a match, you know where the claw came from. A database of genetic profiles of tigers from across India is not only aiding in the capture …
Police officers may soon be able to identify wildlife poachers by retrieving fingerprints from smuggled ivory, new research has revealed. Around 50,000 African elephants are thought to be poached each year, but it had been thought almost impossible to retrieve fingerprints from ivory because of its ridges and porous surface, …
The U.S. House of Representatives passed an anti-poaching bill Monday night by voice vote, according to a news release. The Global Anti-Poaching Act is co-sponsored by 43 Republicans and 64 Democrats. The Global Anti-Poaching Act aims to make wildlife trafficking cases easier to prosecute as well as authorize tougher penalties …
Conservationists were alarmed this week to find one of NCR's once most-commonly sighted wetland bird, common pochard, to have been labelled `near-threatened' in the latest red list of birds released by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for 2015 because of its depleting number. The duck was in the …
Suspected poachers have used cyanide to kill 23 elephants in Zimbabwe's Hwange national park, raising the death toll there and in the northern part of the country to 60 since late September, officials said on Thursday. Hwange national park in western Zimbabwe currently hosts 53,000 elephants, twice the park's carrying …
At least two more elephants are now known to have been shot dead by poachers in Hwange in northern Zimbabwe, where 22 poisoned elephant carcasses were discovered on Monday. The elephants appear to have been shot with rifles last week, according to the privately-owned Newsday on Tuesday. One man has …
