Order of the High Court of Kerala in the matter of Sangita Iyer Vs Guruvayur Devasom & Others dated 17/02/2025. The Kerala High Court directed the Deputy Administrator (Livestock) of Guruvayoor Devaswom to file a detailed affidavit explaining the procedures being followed in Guruvayur Devaswom for booking and transporting elephants …
Rivers have already started drying up The district is facing an acute drought-like situation with major rivers here beginning to dry up as early as March. The water flow in the Payaswini river, a tributary of the Chandragiri, has stopped at Neyyamkayam near the north-eastern border hamlet of Kanathur. The …
Populations of forests elephants, which play key roles in maintaining forest habitat, have declined 63 percent in Central Africa since 2001. Without intervention to prevent further losses, 96 percent of the region's forests could undergo major change. Credit: John Poulsen, Duke University Poaching and habitat loss have reduced forest elephant …
Poaching and habitat loss have reduced forest elephant populations in Central Africa by 63 percent since 2001. This widespread killing poses dire consequences not only for the species itself but also for the region’s forests, a new Duke University study finds. “Without intervention to stop poaching, as much as 96 …
Three Francophone countries have joined the Elephant Protection Initiative, an Africa-led conservation initiative to eradicate ivory trade and stop the slaughter of the continent’s elephants by poachers. Cote d’Ivoire, Mali and Guinea joined the initiative in the course of 2017 — raising the number of signatories to 18. The three …
Three elephants in the Rimoi National Game Reserve in Elgeyo Marakwet have been killed as as a result of human-wildlife conflicts. KWS said one of the jumbos was killed as it sought water from a borehole on the border of Elgeyo Marakwet and Baringo counties. River Kerio, the main water …
A court in the Republic of Congo has convicted three men of killing elephants for their tusks. They were handed five-year prison sentences and fined $10,000 each. The three men were part of a six-member poaching gang that managed to escape an ambush set up by park authorities, but not …
Cameroon says a wave of attacks by armed elephant poachers has killed at least eight soldiers and rangers in a northern national park. The poachers killed elephants too, further shrinking the population of the increasingly endangered animals. A decomposing carcass of an elephant without its tusks lies in Cameroon's Bouba …
The government has begun relocating 21 elephants from Solio and Sangare ranches in Laikipia county to the Tsavo National Park in the Coast region. The two-week exercise was launched by Tourism CS Najib Balala at Solio Ranch yesterday. It will cost Sh4.5 million. The 13,700 square kilometre Tsavo Park has …
Cape Town - In the last two years, China has imported more than 80 live Asian elephants from across its border in Laos and almost 100 juvenile African elephants from Zimbabwe. They were all destined for zoos throughout China. According to wildlife investigator and film-maker, Karl Ammann, the Laotian Prime …
Cape Town - The United States remains the biggest importer of trophy-hunted endangered animals in the world in spite of Donald Trump’s recent public comments overturning a decision by the US Department of Interior to allow elephant trophies into the United States. In 2016 alone the US imported 3 249 …
Kenya is experiencing a sharp decline in elephant and rhino poaching, a senior government official said on Tuesday. Najib Balala, Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, told a media briefing in Nairobi that Kenya lost nine rhinos and 60 elephants to poachers in 2017, compared to 14 …
This paper estimates the elasticity of elephant poaching with respect to prices. To identify the supply curve, the authors observe that ivory is a storable commodity and hence subject to Hotelling's no-arbitrage condition. The price of gold, one of many commodities used as stores of value, is thus used as …
Gabon's national parks agency is bringing hi-tech to the equatorial forests of central Africa in a bid to save thousands of elephants from well-drilled and armed poachers Ever tried to put a GPS real-time tracking collar on a five-tonne animal? Well in Gabon conservationists have begun trying to use the …
One of the world's leading investigators of the illegal trade in ivory and rhino horn has been killed in Kenya. Esmond Bradley Martin, 75, was found in his Nairobi home on Sunday with a stab wound to his neck. The former UN special envoy for rhino conservation was known for …
Scientists are analyzing ivory samples confiscated from the U.S. retail market to help reduce elephant poaching. Two teams of scientists will use radiocarbon dating to determine when each elephant was killed and DNA analyses to locate where it came from in Africa. Determining the location and year an elephant that …
Sitting in the back of a pick -up from the Pendjari National Park, in northern Benin, Matthieu Yoa smiles with the satisfaction of the work accomplished: with his rangers colleagues, he has just put a satellite collar on an elephant to ensure its protection. “It was very strong,” he breathes …
TANGUIETA - Matthieu Yoa smiles at a job well done. The ranger and his colleagues have just put a satellite tracking collar on an elephant in the Pendjari National Park in northern Benin. "It was very strong," he says in halting French, visibly emotional about what he has just done …
A new study summarises the motivations behind the use of endangered wildlife products in Viet Nam, with an ultimate goal of helping behavioural science practitioners develop messages and initiatives to help reduce their consumption. Mapping Motivations–Combatting consumption of illegal wildlife in Viet Nam is a review of consumer research and …
BHUBANESWAR: In a bid to dissuade youths from taking selfie with wild animals and create awareness, a leading rescue organisation Snake Helpline on Sunday started an anti-selfie movement ‘no selfie with wildlife’ across the State. About 80 wildlife activists from different parts of the State participated in the movement and …
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC;) is going to kick-start its project to control wild animal population through contraceptives from Uttarakhand with a pilot on Rhesus Macaque monkeys, ministry officials said. After years of deliberations, the MoEF&CC; recently approved a Rs 10 crore funding for 'immunology contraception' …
