The killing of an alpha elephant bull at Omatjete last week has been highly criticised by Namibian conservation and tourism groups. The elephant, named 'Voortrekker' of the rare Ugab desert-adapted herd, was put down last Tuesday by a government-appointed hunter for N$120 000. To Omatjete's Ohungu Conservancy, who claim to …
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 reporting perpetrators to the police. Burrows takes precautions – she always parks her car facing an exit route …
As Africa's rhino population continues to grow more vulnerable due to poaching and increasing demand for their horns in Asian countries, one organization is taking a different approach to curb the hunting by poisoning the animals' horns. Lorinda Hern, co-founder of the Rhino Rescue Project, explained to HuffPost Live's Josh …
Lion body parts used as trophies from hunting will no longer be allowed to be imported or exported, environment minister Greg Hunt says The Australian government is banning the import and export of hunting ‘trophies’ made from the body parts of lions, in an attempt to help curb the organised …
In response to public pressure, state environmental officials on Monday released a revised plan to thin out the invasive mute swan population in New York. While emphasizing nondeadly control measures, the new plan would still allow the killing of the birds. The revision comes after a blueprint issued early last …
Hom Bahadur Thapamagar, 24, of Machapuchhre-8 in the district was held around a week ago with two Kalij pheasants and two common hill-partridges at the Annapurna Conservation Area Project check-post in Sardikhola. Likewise, Dhanraj Tamang, 26, of Lwanghalel-8 was also arrested with a Kalij pheasant a month ago. Officials said …
Thanks to climate change, habitat loss and hunting, the number of Borneo mammals at near-extinction is expected to double by the year 2080, an astonishing new report says. However, researchers say if we take action now and focus conservation efforts on protecting vital rainforest habitat, some of these species may …
Half of the population of the world's most endangered species of chimp will be wiped out by 2080 as a result of dramatic habitat loss from climate change, experts have warned. There are approximately 6,000 Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes ellioti) living in the wild at present. However, their population is …
People's plunder and activity have caused a decline in wildlife population, a recent report says. With the increasing encroachment of land and resources due to hunting and poaching, the human world has halved the number of wild animals in the world in just 40 years, according to a shocking report …
MEPs will get the chance this week to grill the nominees for Europe's top environment jobs about their green credentials. The environment commissioner-designate is Karmenu Vella - a businessman from Malta, whose government faces criticism for its failure to stop illegal hunting of wild birds. The energy and climate commissioner-designate …
A U.S. judge restored federal protections to wolves in Wyoming, at least temporarily, in a victory for wildlife conservationists that was sure to draw criticism from ranchers and hunters who see wolves as a threat to livestock and big-game animals. Wyoming Governor Matt Mead said the state would ask a …
The Badger Trust is back in court on Thursday with a new legal challenge over the government’s badger cull policy. It is seeking a High Court ruling that there has been an unlawful failure to put in place an independent expert panel to oversee this year’s planned cull in Gloucestershire …
Namibia won’t withdraw permits granted to hunt desert elephants, a group of the pachyderms that live in the country’s arid northwest, despite protests, the country’s Environment and Tourism minister said. While decision to allow the hunting of nine elephants, most of them classified as so-called desert elephants, has sparked a …
Conservationists claimed victory on Tuesday after Idaho wildlife managers suspended the killing of wolves in a protected wilderness area for preying on elk prized by commercial hunters. The state's Department of Fish and Game hired a hunter last year to trap and kill wolves in the central Idaho mountains, responding …
The outsized, hump-shouldered bruins were hunted, trapped and poisoned to the edge of extinction in the lower 48 states before being added to the federal endangered and threatened species list in 1975. The Center for Biological Diversity argued in a formal petition submitted to the U.S. Interior Department that grizzlies …
Ironically, the same property that makes it so suitable as the figurehead for the World Cup also makes it easy to bag up and barbeque. The combined forces of illegal subsistence hunting and habitat destruction have rendered this remarkable species vulnerable to extinction, according to the IUCN. Initially, conservationists were …
The poachers have turned active in Sundarbans under Khulna district due to negligence of the authorities concerned. Particularly, the poachers, in collusion with the local influential people, are hunting deer indiscriminately. They sell flesh, rawhides and horns of deer at high prices. The forest department does not have any list …
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-Pakistan) has condemned the hunting of around 2,100 houbara bustards in Chagai District of Balochistan Province. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the WWF-Pakistan verified that Chlamydotis undulata, commonly known as houbara bustard, was listed as “vulnerable” in the International Union for Conservation of …
China will jail people who eat rare animals for 10 years or more under a new interpretation of the criminal law, state media reported, as the government seeks to close a legal loophole and better protect the natural environment. China lists 420 species as rare or endangered, including the panda, …
China lists 420 species as rare or endangered, including the panda, golden monkeys, Asian black bears and pangolins, some or all of which are threatened by illegal hunting, environmental destruction and the consumption of animal parts, including for supposedly medicinal reasons. Consumption of rare animals has risen as the country …
A Saudi prince is alleged to have poached over 2,100 endangered and internationally protected birds in a 21-day hunting safari in southwest Pakistan's Balochistan province, bringing the focus back on the practice that has been taking place for long. Last year in January, the hunting of endangered Houbara Bustards by …
