State of the Rhino 2023
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
Poaching
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Two men charged after pride of lions poisoned in Kenya game park
Two Kenyan men have been charged with killing two lions and poisoning at least six others, a Kenyan wildlife official said on Tuesday, in a case involving a pride of lions which starred in a long-running
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Malawi: Tourists Disappear as Elephant Poaching Reach Unprecedented Levels
Government is now conceding that elephant poaching has reached unprecedented levels in Malawi national parks and game reserves forcing a high drop in tourism population in these sites. Director of Wildlife
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Famed Lions Poisoned in Kenya Wildlife Reserve
The victims come from the Marsh Pride, a family of lions living in the Masai Mara National Reserve in southwest Kenya. They were the stars of the long-running and hugely popular BBC series called Big Cat
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Ivory price drop 'signals waning Chinese demand'
Illegal ivory has halved in value in China according to new research, leading to hopes that the demand which drives poaching in Africa might be on the wane. Kenya-based conservation organisation Save
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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Controling poaching of wild animals, 07/12/2015
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Controling poaching of wild animals, 07/12/2015. The National Tiger Conservation Authority has come out with certain innovative mechanisms such as installation of e-Eye
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Zimbabwe: Poachers Cost Zimbabwe U.S $3 Billion
ZIMBABWE lost about 24 000 elephants to poachers over the past 20 years, prejudicing the hard currency starved economy of an estimated US$3 billion in sport hunting fees alone, the Financial Gazette can
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How Black-Market Poison Is Helping Poachers Kill Animals
First, 11 elephants were killed in Hwange National Park and 3 in Matusadona National Park. On October 26, the parks authority announced that another 22 had been poisoned and killed in Hwange. A week later,
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South Africa steps up efforts to fight rhino poaching
South Africa has stepped up its efforts to fight rhino poaching in the country’s flora and fauna-rich nature reserves, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has said. Addressing the second Interpol-United
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‘How did Assam permit large-scale hotels in and around Kaziranga?’
With large-scale hotels in and around the world heritage site of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) posing a threat to wildlife, especially the one-horned rhinoceros, the National Green Tribunal has sought
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China must act decisively to eradicate the ivory trade
<p>The continued existence of large stockpiles of legal raw ivory in the country is hampering China’s promises to save the elephant, says Li Zhang.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/1.18763!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftColumn/pdf/527135a.pdf"