In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
Obuasi, GhanaKwaku Asare grabbed his machete and trekked through the bush to his cocoa farm—through winding pathways and hills, past ominous pits of muddy water, and underneath the low-hanging canopy of dried cocoa leaves. But the trees were bare. A few rotting cocoa pods littered the ground, while other stunted …
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 …
The government of Tanzania has formed a task force aimed at reinforcing the implementation of the Zanzibar Declaration on Illegal Trade in Timber and Other Forest Products, an official said on Thursday. Zanzibar’s Director for Planning, Policy and Research in the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources, Livestock and Fisheries Sheha …
Forty-two-year old John Matuku, a peasant in Mutha, Kitui County, has been burning charcoal all his adult life. What started as a pastime to supplement his meagre farm earnings has over the years turned into an occupation. He specialises in producing charcoal for sale in Nairobi and other towns. Over …
The Lake Victoria basin ecosystem is experiencing unprecedented levels of environmental degradation. This is occasioned by deforestation, reclamation of wetlands for agriculture, disposal of untreated industrial effluent and unplanned human settlement The latest entrant on the list of human activities that degrade the Lake Victoria Basin ecosystem is industrial-scale sand …
Lusaka — Zambia has launched drones surveillance in its national parks to curb poaching. Tourism and Arts minister Charles Banda said the drones would "increase surveillance and curb poaching in national parks". "The government is concerned with the levels of poaching," he said during the launch of the programme in …
Destruction of forests in Kisii County continues even in the face of a ban on logging by the government. In the last five years alone, at least one forest has been decimated by the county government to give way to a bus park cum market at Keumbu, Nyaribari Chache Sub-county. …
More than 1.3-million live animals and plants, 1.5-million skins and two thousand tonnes of meat from CITES-listed species have been exported from 41 African countries to East and Southeast Asia since 2006, a ground-breaking new TRAFFIC report funded by Arcadia and published reveals. Exports included 975 different taxa listed under …
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 …
The National Green Tribunal on Monday appointed court commissioners to verify allegations made in a plea regarding illegal sand mining in Jodhpur. A bench headed by Justice Jawad Rahim appointed advocates Gaurav Bansal and Rahul Khurana as court commissioners in the case and directed them to submit the inspection report …
Hundreds of residents from Ferozabad and Nadi Sinnur villages in Kalaburagi taluk staged a protest against illegal sand extraction, outside the Deputy Commissioner’s office here on Thursday. The villagers took out a protest march through the main streets in the city while playing revolutionary songs from films. They submitted a …
Windhoek — According to the latest statistics, Namibia's anti-poaching unit is proving a success with the country only having recorded three cases of rhino poaching this year. Minister of Environment and Tourism Pohamba Shifeta yesterday said the aim for this year is to reduce poaching cases by more than 50 …
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 …
There is the need to intensify the fight against illegal rosewood harvesting in the three northern regions as it is destroying the few forests and polluting water bodies. The erratic rainfall pattern in northern Ghana, which is having adverse effects on agriculture, could also be blamed on the destruction of …
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo’s environment ministry said on Tuesday it had reinstated thousands of square kilometers of logging concessions in its equatorial forests, a move environmentalists fear could cause huge volumes of greenhouse gases to be released. The forests cover peatlands believed to contain billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide …
High Court today directed the authorities of Geology and Mining to report the court about the check list so that to ensure the proper safety of mining places as also the individuals. The Division Bench of Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar and Justice M K Hanjura while hearing a PIL on adverse …
A new dawn to Kenya as the fight against poaching reaches a higher level. Ne strain of dogs have been incorporated to help track poachers in the Savannas. They are called the anti-poaching dogs with uniques feature to track poachers. Five-month-old bloodhound Shakaria gambols through the long savannah grasses of …
A new dawn to Kenya as the fight against poaching reaches a higher level. Ne strain of dogs have been incorporated to help track poachers in the Savannas. They are called the anti-poaching dogs with uniques feature to track poachers. Five-month-old bloodhound Shakaria gambols through the long savannah grasses of …
GOVERNMENT has warned that the country is at risk of a timber deficit if the excessive cutting down of trees is not curbed. Speaking when she officiated at a tree planting exercise at Kaunda Square Secondary School yesterday, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Jean Kapata said the excessive cutting …
Animal traffickers are taking advantage of remote ivory trade routes to smuggle pangolins - one of the world's most endangered animals - out of Central Africa, a new study has found. The solitary mammals - sought after for their meat and scales - are being transported across remote forest borders …
