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 lead to the deaths of rhinos. Increased precipitation, longer monsoons and seasonal floods are already resulting in stranding, drowning …
Nairobi — The government has expressed commitment in working with all stakeholders to push for a global ban on trade in ivory. The Principal Secretary, State department of Natural Resources, Dr Margaret Mwakima says it will be hard to continue fighting the illegal trade of ivory if some countries are …
Dimension Data, a South African tech firm and networking company Cisco, announced a partnership to save rhinos being poached in the country. The technology deployed by the companies will track vehicles and people entering the reserve that is located near the Kruger National Park. The primary goal of the pilot …
US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, hailed the Cameroon ceremony as symbolic of commitment to win war against illegal smuggling of animal products Some 2,000 illegally trafficked elephant tusks and hundreds of finished ivory products erupted in a ball of fire on Tuesday as Cameroonian authorities conducted what was …
Angola on Monday announced a major push against the ivory trade, pledging to close one of the largest domestic ivory markets in the world and implement tougher border and screening controls.The Southern African nation also promised to fulfill its commitments under the UN Environment Programme-hosted Convention on International Trade in …
Dangling from a helicopter with a high powered rifle, a Kenyan vet fires drugged darts at elephants to sedate them so they can be fitted with satellite collars. Ten minutes after the elephant is darted, the lumbering creature stumbles, and falls asleep. Ground teams are scrambled, rushing to the scene …
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The latest crackdown on illegal logging in Cambodia is "just a game" and big timber traders are winning, says Ouch Leng, a former government official who has spent two decades helping poor villagers fight poaching of precious tropical forests. Leng's tenacious and perilous crusade to …
There are estimated to be 2,400 one-horned rhinos, out of a global population of 3,300, at the park in Assam A rhino was killed by poachers in India's Kaziranga national park on the same day the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge toured the sanctuary. The adult male rhino was shot …
Nairobi — Tanzanian and Kenyan conservationists have partnered with a US-based university to source for DNA material for 200 species of bird and animals highly targeted by poachers for commercial purposes. The partnership between the Kenya Forest Service, Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania, National Museums …
Making a strong pitch for tiger conservation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday underlined the need for collaboration between governments at the highest level to check trafficking in body parts of the wildcat. Noting that conservation of tiger or nature is "not a drag" on development, the Prime Minister insisted …
Botswana said on Tuesday that it welcomes the decision by the European Union (EU) Parliament to vote for a ban against hunting trophies entering the bloc.The minister of Environment, Tourism and Wildlife Tshekedi Khama said he had not been officially informed of the planned debate in the EU Parliament to …
For the first time in a 100 years, there has been an increase in the global population of wild tigers with the number revised to 3,890 in 2016 as compared to about 3,200 six years ago, as per the WWF and the Global Tiger Forum. This comes a day before …
The dry forests of Cambodia once serve as the home for a number of Indochinese tigers, but now, due to excessive human activities, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has declared tigers to be "functionally" extinct. Years of conservation efforts in hopes to prevent the extinction of the endangered green sea turtles …
Dehradun: Learning no lessons from the past, wildlife officials in Uttarakhand continue to be on the defensive and in denial of an alarming spurt in incidents of poaching in the hill state. When TOI spoke with DVS Khati, principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife), about the seizure of a leopard …
KLERKSDORP, South Africa - South Africa will decide this month whether to push to end a global ban on buying and selling rhino horn, a move that could unlock a $2 billion (1.40 billion pound) bonanza and determine the fate of a critically endangered species. Rhino horn is prized in …
Tigers could soon be making a roaring comeback, according to the latest forecast by experts. Scientists say the endangered animal's global population could almost treble in the next two decades if sufficient action is taken to restore its habitat. In the past century, tiger populations have been decimated as a …
Satellite maps show tiger habitat is being lost but still adequate for meeting international goal of doubling tiger numbers by 2022 Forests that harbour tigers are being lost but are still large enough to take double the world’s tiger population in the next six years, according to a study using …
Pretoria — Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has clarified that the South African government has not taken a decision to legalise trade in rhino horn. The Department of Environmental Affairs on Thursday said the clarity from the Minister follows an online petition that is circulated through the organization, Avaaz, calling …
Nairobi — The government has issued a 21-day amnesty for the surrender of ivory and any wildlife trophies held without a permit issued by the Kenya Wildlife Service. Environment Cabinet Secretary Judi Wakhungu says those who do so within the given time frame will not be prosecuted. Wakhungu says the …
A recent aerial survey of Zambia’s elephant population shows that anti-poaching efforts are having a positive impact on the country’s national parks. The Zambia Department of National Parks and Wildlife participated in the Great Elephant Survey which included 20 countries across the continent. It was the first pan-African elephant census …
Rhino has become a major election issue in Assam this time. It is the precious one-horned rhinoceros that stands out in Assam’s wildlife protection areas, especially Kaziranga National Park. With unabated poaching of the endangered animal becoming a cause for concern among the Assamese, political parties of all hues have …
