Kenya's famous elephants die of drought, poaching

In the last 12 years, this year has been the worst for the famous elephants in the north of Kenya, Nairobi. Over 100 elephants have been killed caused by poaching and drought-related hunger. Iain Douglas-Hamilton a...

Kenya suffers wave of elephant killings

Poachers seeking valuable ivory have killed up to 20 elephants across north Kenya in the last two weeks, locals said on Wednesday. Residents said the elephants were shot and stripped of their tusks in remote areas of Samburu, Laikibia and Marsabit districts, where wildlife is...

Tamir Sapir, NY Billionaire, pleads guilty to animal trafficking

Tamir Sapir, the New York billlionaire, who owns Ruzial Ltd, a company based in the Cayman Islands, has pleaded guilty to animal trafficking of animal wildlife parts, when his yatch was found at the Port Everglades...

Elephants migrate out of Zimbabwe to save themselves

About 400 hundred elephants have migrated across the Zambezi River from troubled Zimbabwe to Zambia to get away from increasing poaching and loss of habitat due to human development and conflict. The Zimbabwe Task...

Tigers decapitated by poachers

The picture and the story will make you sick. But, quite often, we need to be shocked to want to do something about it. Heads and carcasses of tigers have been seized from poachers in Thailand. The tigers were...

Sale of southern African ivory begins

Stockpiles of ivory in South Africa have gone on sale in an UN sanctioned auction for the first time since 1999. There are more than 100 tons up for grabs from four southern African countries that will be...

South Africa to sell ivory to China, Japan

In what could be the return of the ivory trade, South Africa has said it will go ahead with plans to sell 51 tons of ivory to China and Japan, which is a special exemption to the ivory trading ban. South Africa has a...

25% of World's Mammals Face Extinction

A reevaluation of the Red List of Threatened Species, last assessed 10 years ago, has found that over half of all mammalian species' populations are falling and that at least 25% face the risk of...

Elephants Could be On Path To Extinction By 2020

African elephants are now being slaughtered for their ivory at a rapid pace, unseen since the international ban on ivory in 1989. However, scientists are saying that what is missing is the outcry on the ivory...

He's black, and he's back! Private enterprise saves southern Africa's rhino f...

Great news for the Black Rhino. Sometimes private enterprise can work hand in hand with conservation as this scheme shows."A pioneering scheme which allows private landlords to own and breed wild rhinoceroses has...

India's tigers need miracle to survive

"NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's dwindling tiger population will never recover and it will take a miracle to save those left from habitat destruction and poaching, a renowned expert said on Wednesday. Failure by...

Wild Tigers Face New Threats by Tiger Farms

Some Tiger populations are in grave danger. Some have already disappeared, some are rebounding. The Tigers of China have a beautiful lady going to bat for them. But there's a catch-22 in one effort to protect the...

India fighting 'losing battle' with poachers

"The fragile maritime ecology of India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago is under threat from widespread illegal fishing, poaching of rare species and the collection of rare coral, a top official said on Friday."

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