
An emergency summit on the illegal ivory trade will take place in Botswana from December 2 in an urgent attempt to…
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An emergency summit on the illegal ivory trade will take place in Botswana from December 2 in an urgent attempt to…
In China the penalty for poaching an elephant is death. In Africa, it is considerably less. The irony in this…
We have been incorporating elephants into our lives since humans first became…well…humans. The earliest known San rock paintings depict elephants,…
Five tonnes of illicit trinkets to go under the crusher, but legal muddles still allow US citizens to trade in…
A recent report on Transnational Organized Crime in East Africa confirms the shocking statistics pertaining to the elephant poaching crisis in…
Simply put, habitat destruction occurs when functioning natural habitats or ecosystems are degraded to the extent that they can no…
Regoor die wereld vier mense wat omgee op 12 Augustus die vader van die aarde se diere, die olifant. ‘n…
The African elephant is facing its gravest crisis since the 1980s when between 600 000 and 800 000 animals were killed in a poaching spree. Surveys and data…
The current plight of Africa’s rhino population, as disturbing as it is, pales in comparison to a much less widely…
In 1989, after two decades in which the world’s elephant population was halved, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species…
On World Elephant Day we are reminded that poaching is a growing concern across much of Africa. Though attempts at…
Today marks the beginning of a new struggle. A large section of South Africans are in grave and mortal danger.…
The trophy hunting industry’s dismissal of its opponents as ‘animal rightists’ is just one of several misconceptions that do it…
The roads to environmental infamy are not easy to follow. On a bumpy dirt track among rickety stilted houses near…
It may come as something of a shock to those of us who’ve visited the penguin colonies just outside Cape…
The world’s largest land animal – with a brain bigger than ours and similar family values – has been worshipped…
In Zambia’s newest national park, on the outskirts of its capital Lusaka, live more than 200 sable antelope. Coralled in…