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Obituary: Wayne Lotter was killed on August 16th
No landscape was dearer to Wayne Lotter than the savannah of southern Africa, and in particular one corner of it,…
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Managing elephants in Addo Elephant National Park: a conservation conundrum (South Africa)
Most visitors to the Addo Elephant National Park (AENP) go there to see the jumbos – the park was originally…
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Elephant ‘domesticated’ to give tourist rides at Victoria Falls kills handler (Zimbabwe)
An elephant trained to give rides at Zimbabwe’s main tourist resort has charged and killed one of its handlers. Enock…
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Outrage grows over baby elephant sale (Namibia)
Outrage is growing among international conservation organisations against the permission granted by Namibia to a game farm owned by a…
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Game theory suggests China should keep its ivory trade ban in place indefinitely
The international ivory trade ban is meaningless as long as legal domestic markets exist. Tyrone Siu/Reuters It’s no exaggeration to…
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Speculating a Fire Sale: Options for Chinese Authorities in Implementing a Domestic Ivory Trade Ban
Highlights • If ivory speculators in China believe that the domestic ivory trade ban will be finite, they will continue…
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Alarm over ‘new gag’ on elephant poaching stats
First there was a clampdown on rhino poaching statistics. Now the same is happening with information on elephant ivory poaching.…
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Victory for elephant conservation in circus case
Durban – In a victory for elephant conservation, circus owner Brian Boswell has failed in his legal bid to overthrow…
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Mpumalanga tightens up on trophy elephant hunts
Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency (MTPA) has confirmed that it will not issue permits to hunt trophy elephants with unlimited…
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Booming trade in mammoth ivory fuels fears over elephants
After being incarcerated in permafrost for thousands of years, global warming has seen woolly mammoths being taken from the ground…
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CITES Elephant trophy hunting quotas 2017- 1188 African elephants may be legally hunted in 2017
CITES CITES LISTING APPENDIX COUNTRY DATE NOTES I 13/09/2007 Included in Appendix I, except the populations of Botswana, Namibia, South…
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Elephants in crisis: MPs accuse government and Europe of dragging their feet over ivory ban
‘This is the last chance saloon,’ say politicians and campaigners pushing for urgent action Protesters in London in 2016. Thousands…
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Armed herders invade Kenya’s most important wildlife conservancy
Nomadic herders have killed wildlife and torched buildings but questions remain over the causes of the violence Drought in…
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Botswana’s Elephant Refugee Crisis
Photo Credit: Elephant Without Borders Mention the word refugees, and the image that comes to mind is that of humans…
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Elephant poaching up, rhino down (Namibia)
While the poaching spotlight is intensely focused on rhino in Namibia, official poaching statistics released by the environment ministry this…
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Humanity is caring about more than just our own species (Zimbabwe)
An ‘Elephant Dawn’ interview with Sharon Pincott On top of an abiding love of wildlife and a beautiful but deeply…
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Yahoo Japan defies calls to rethink ivory sales as Yahoo Inc CEO weighs in
Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest online auction site, is rebuffing calls to end online ivory trading despite Yahoo Inc CEO…
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China’s ivory trade ban: how to make it work
A saleswoman tries to stop a photograph being taken of ivory items for sale in a department store in Hong…
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China’s ivory ban opens questions about its massive legal stockpiles
An elephant walks in the open field within the Amboseli National Park, southeast of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, April 25, 2016.…
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China to ban domestic ivory trade by end of 2017
China will slap a total ban on the domestic ivory trade within a year, the government announced on Friday, shutting…