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 …
CAPE TOWN - Environmental Affairs Minister, Edna Molewa says government is escalating the fight against rhino poaching despite current measures yielding positive results. Molewa was briefing the media in Cape Town on progress made in combating rhino poaching on Monday. According to Molewa, "This decline in numbers does not mean …
The South African government on Monday denied reports that it has approved international trade in rhino horns. "The commercial international trade in rhino horn is and remains prohibited in terms of all international protocols that South Africa is party to, particularly the Convention on International Trade in Species of Fauna …
Rhinoceros horn can be easily bought in China despite it being illegal since 1993. The rhino horn products in antiques shop are far from antique. They are new and most likely been illegally trafficked from Africa to Vietnam and then into China. A new report from Elephant Action League (EAL), …
This Report for the year ended March 2016 has been prepared for submission to the Governor of Karnataka under Article 151 of the Constitution of India for being laid in the State legislature. The Performance Audit Report contains 11 Chapters dealing with Administration of National Parks and Wildlife sanctuaries. Issues …
They are "Eyes in the Skies". Poaching, tree felling or any other non-forestry activity in tiger reserves will no longer be possible as the woods will be monitored by these unmanned aerial vehicles. Wildlife Institute of India (WII) researcher K Ramesh told TOI that both the Union Ministry of Forests, …
Global Witness, an international organization whose aim is to expose links between the demand for natural resources, corruption, armed conflict and environmental destruction, released a report that showed that environment and land rights activists faced heightened risk - there were, across the world, at least 200 activists killed in 2016 …
The majority of the world's terrestrial large carnivores have undergone substantial range contractions and many of these species are currently threatened with extinction. However, there has been little effort to fully quantify the extent of large carnivore range contractions, which hinders our ability to understand the roles and relative drivers …
The beefing up of security in other parks, coupled with the conservation area’s small size, may explain the onslaught of rhino poaching in KwaZulu-Natal. This assessment came after Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife’s Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park lost another six rhinos at the weekend. Ezemvelo spokesperson Musa Mntambo told The Mercury on Wednesday that …
The Chinese government has said it will rein in the smuggling and illegal sale of ivory through tougher law enforcement, among other measures — but those enforcement efforts do not appear to have reached the town of Shuidong in Guangdong Province. The Chinese town at the epicenter of the global …
Every eight hours, a rhinoceros is slaughtered in South Africa. Rhino poaching in South Africa surged from 83 in 2008 to a record 1,215 in 2014 to meet demands by newly-affluent Asian countries, where the horn is a key ingredient in traditional medicines. To help stem the tide of rhino …
Authorities in Hong Kong this week made their largest haul of contraband ivory in more than 30 years, amid surging illegal wildlife seizures fuelled by lax regulations and buoyant demand from mainland China. The former British colony situated at the mouth of China's Pearl River Delta is one of the …
An environmental watchdog group says its investigation of ivory smuggling in Mozambique uncovered evidence of a Chinese-led criminal network, operating through the southern city of Shuidong that they claim is a route for some 80 percent of all elephant-tusk ivory originating in Africa. The report, released Tuesday by the UK-based …
Hluhluwe - Horn poachers have killed another six rhino in a single night shoot-up in KwaZulu-Natal's flagship Hluhluwe-Imfolozi reserve. It is understood that 11 gunshots were heard around 00:00 on Sunday. At first light on Monday, Ezemvelo KZN wildlife rangers and anti-poaching units went to where the gunshots had been …
After quantifying the extent of habitat fragmentation faced by 4,000 mammal species, researchers found higher levels of fragmentation predict greater risk of extinction. As habitat fragmentation increases, so does extinction risk: study A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), set out to quantify …
Dar es Salaam — The government has taken 100 people to court and fined them a total of Sh1.1 billion for poaching between 2014 and 2017. This was said on Wednesday by the government's chief prosecutor Mr Biswalo Mganga during the launch of a new guideline for investigators and prosecutors …
Nagpur: With the arrest of two tribals, a major tiger poaching racket involved in trafficking bones, skins and other body parts has been exposed in Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR), Maharashtra, on Tuesday. Pench officials seized over 12kg tiger bones and 14 nails from accused Devidas Tukaram Kumre (40) and Babulal …
Johannesburg - A rhino breeder in South Africa is planning an online auction of rhino horn, capitalising on a court ruling that opened the way to domestic trade despite an international ban that was imposed to curb widespread poaching. The online sale of rhino horn belonging to breeder John Hume …
Monrovia – Invasion by wildlife in some quarters across Liberia is becoming a serious concern to citizens as a result of major obstructions caused by these wildlife. Report by Willie N. Tokpah - willie.tokpah@frontpageafricaonline.com The invasions are becoming a serious concern to the Forestry Development Authority, too. Recently, there were …
A rhino breeder in South Africa is planning an online auction of rhino horns to capitalise on a court ruling that opened the way to domestic trade despite an international ban imposed to curb poaching. The sale of rhino horns by breeder John Hume, to be held in August, will …
Last week’s killing of an 11-year-old white rhino in a KwaZulu-Natal park has pushed up the province’s death toll. The rhino, named Maxine, was brought to the Natal Lion Park in Camperdown as an orphan and raised there. She was killed early on Tuesday morning. Tell a friend Maxine, the …
