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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Namibia: Rhino Poaching Continues Unabated
Windhoek — Rhinos continue to die at the hands of suspected poachers in the country's national parks, especially in Etosha. The Director of Regional Services and Parks Management, Colgar Sikopo, yesterday
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Ivory-smuggling destination Thailand makes 'biggest seizure' of tusks
Thai customs officials have seized four tonnes of ivory worth $6 million, authorities said on Monday, in what the department called the largest bust of its kind in Thailand's history. The elephant tusks
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Tanzania: Bold Leadership Slowly Forces Poaching Into Retreat
THE Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism under, Mr Lazaro Nyalandu, seems to have introduced a new mode of fighting against poaching of the nation's natural resource of wildlife. On Tuesday a national
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Cameroon: Elephant Poaching- New Tracking System in Place
A new tracking system to gather information on illegal elephant poaching has been put in place for the Central African Sub-region. Meeting in Buea in the South West recently, regional experts decried
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South Africa: Green Scorpions Target Wildlife Crime at OR Tambo
Environmental Management Inspectors, commonly known as the Green Scorpions, have been deployed by the Department of Environmental Affairs at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg in an effort
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Endangered Sumatran Elephant Shot Dead in Indonesia, Tusks Removed
A dead Sumatran elephant, believed to be killed by poachers, was discovered on Monday in an Indonesian forest in Aceh province. Its head was mutilated and tusks were also missing. In a report by Yahoo!
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RTIs Punch Holes in Javadekar's Claims on Growing Rhino Count
Environment minister Prakash Javadekar's claim that all's well with the country's rhinoceros population is only half the story. While the population of the onehorned rhinoceros is on the rise -2,401 at
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Poachers Kill 12 Rhinos So Far This Year in Namibia
Poachers killed 12 rhinos in Namibia’s Etosha National Park and in north-western Kunene region so far this year, authorities said. Seven rhino carcasses were discovered in Etosha, a prime tourist attraction,
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Genetic study finds severe inbreeding in mountain gorillas
The most extensive genetic analysis of mountain gorillas ever conducted has found the critically endangered apes burdened with severe inbreeding and at risk of extinction but the researchers still see
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Malta braces for referendum as battle to end spring bird hunting intensifies
The 30-year-old native of Nottingham has been threatened, cursed at, and pushed around while doing the job she says she lives for: stealthily filming the illegal hunting of protected migratory birds and