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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…
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China to ban all sales and processing of ivory by end of 2017
China has said it will ban the processing and sale of ivory and ivory products by December 31, 2017. The…
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Botswana bans elephant-back rides
According to the NGO World Animal Protection, most tourists go on elephant rides because they love elephants. They don’t…
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Elephant Dawn: The high cost of hanging out with elephants
How could you tell males from females? Were the elephants left-tusked or right-tusked? Who were the matriarchs? Who belonged to…
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South African arrested in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park on poaching charge
A South African, Pieter Jansen van Rensberg, has been arrested on a charge of poaching inside the protected buffer zone…
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Japan Reconsiders Its Role in Driving the Slaughter of Elephants
(Photo: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images) Though China has earned much of the blame for the massive slaughter of elephants…
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How Japanese media have failed endangered species
In October, a new documentary produced by Leonardo DiCaprio premiered on Netflix. “The Ivory Game” is a dramatic study of…
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Ivory trading nations exposed
The twenty-eight countries most responsible for the deaths of African elephants have been revealed in a new report, but other…