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 …
A Zimbabwean court on Wednesday charged a professional hunter with failing to prevent an American from unlawfully killing 'Cecil', the southern African country's best-known lion, in a case that has triggered widespread revulsion at trophy hunting. The American, Walter James Palmer, a Minnesota dentist who paid $50,000 to kill the …
USAID is sourcing innovative science and technology-based solutions to detect transit routes, strengthen forensic evidence, reduce consumer demand, and tackle corruption through the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge. The Challenge expects to unveil the Grand Prize Winners in early 2016. The Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge will reward innovative science and technology …
EL PINO, Honduras — The jaguar roams jungles and riverbanks from the Amazon to Mexico, and even into the southwestern United States. It’s a powerful and cunning hunter, and a single cat’s territory can stretch hundreds of miles. The Aztecs called their most fearsome warriors “ocelotl” — jaguar soldiers. But …
Conservation efforts pay off in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh The tiger population in the two States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh will soon hit the century mark, thanks to a successfully laid recovery track that channels through Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve. If Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments manage to prevent poaching …
Conservationists and politicians have called on the EU to ban the import of lion heads, paws and skins as hunters’ trophies from African countries that cannot prove their lion populations are sustainable, following the killing of Zimbabwe’s most famous lion by a European hunter with a bow and arrow. The …
The President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, has signed up as a founding member of the pan-African Giants Club, joining political and business leaders to combat an illegal wildlife trade that has devastated Africa’s elephant herds. In a long-awaited move, he also committed to the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), which was …
The anti-poaching campaign received a boost on Sunday, following a donation of various equipment from China that includes vehicles, generators and telescopes worth 2.6bn/-. Presenting the donation, the Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania, Mr Lu Youqing, rightly said that his country appreciated the country's efforts in fighting poaching. Ambassador Lu also …
Pohamba Shifeta, Namibia’s Minister of Environment and Tourism, said the country will not destroy its stockpile of ivory and rhino horns—a measure adopted by other countries in Africa and elsewhere to combat poaching by raising public awareness and removing the possibility of the products going onto the black market. Speaking …
Rhinos, tigers and elephants could be saved from poachers by their own heart beats, a global-tracking device and a video camera. “The heart rate monitor triggers the alarm the instant a poaching event occurs, pinpointing the location within a few meters,” Paul O’Donoghue, chief scientific adviser for British conservation company …
As Howard Frederick flew in a Cessna low over the scrubland of Tanzania’s Selous game reserve, it was the complete absence of elephants rather than the piles of scattered bones he saw that chilled him most. The team conducting the aerial wildlife counts of Tanzania in 2013 and 2014 knew …
South Sudan’s wildlife has been forced to relocate to neighboring countries due to rampant poaching and their habitats being used as battlegrounds during the ongoing crisis. Many animals flee their homes for safety in neighboring countries, as their habitats have become the epicenter for fierce clashes between warring factions, says …
Tanzania's anti-poaching crusade received a boost on Sunday when the Chinese government donated 50 special vehicles worth 1.3 million U.S. dollars for patrolling in the East African nation's parks and game reserves. Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania Lu Youqing handed over the vehicles to the Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, …
The Chitwan National Park has marked the Fiscal Year 2014/15 as zero poaching year of Rhino in the park. Not a single Rhino lost its life to poaching in the park as well as in the forest area of the district, according to Information Officer of the CNP Tikaram Poudel. …
Nairobi — Rampant illegal trading in ivory in Hong Kong is pushing elephants towards extinction, conservationists said Thursday, reporting more ivory items on sale there than in any other city. The sale of ivory items from government registered stockpiles predating the 1990 ban is allowed for domestic use in Hong …
About eighty per cent of the poachers arrested by the South African authorities in the Kruger National Park are Mozambicans, according to William Mabassa, of the public relations service of the Kruger Park. Speaking on 14 July, at a seminar in the southern city of Inhambane on "The role of …
Recognizing that wild animals and plants are an irreplaceable part of the natural systems of the Earth, the United Nations General Assembly urged its Member States to take decisive steps to prevent, combat and eradicate the illegal trade in wildlife, on both the supply and demand sides. Through the new …
Maputo — The Mozambican authorities on Monday incinerated in Maputo over 2.4 tonnes of ivory and rhinoceros horns seized from poaching gangs. In all, 618 elephant tusks (weighing 2.2 tonnes) and 86 rhino horns (weighing 236 kilos) were consigned to the flames. The tusks and horns had been seized in …
Groggy on their paws after waking from tranquillisers, lions have returned to Rwanda for the first time since the endangered animal was wiped out following the country’s 1994 genocide. Seven lions (two males and five females) were transported in a 30-hour journey from South Africa – first by air, then …
Mozambique burned 2.5 tonnes of seized ivory and rhino horn on Monday as part of a campaign to end an illicit trade that is fueling a wave of big animal poaching in Africa, a conservation group said. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said in a statement that over 2,400 kgs …
Pakistan is likely to employ DNA barcodes — a way to identify species to curb illegal wildlife trade as smugglers come up with new techniques to transport endangered species by mislabelling them. The Directorate of Biodiversity at the Ministry of Climate Change said that illegal wildlife trade was on the …
