Reporting on the Ivory Trade in Angola: Will the Nation’s Entry to CITES Make...
By Elena Bersacola and Magdalena Svensson, A Voice for Elephants, National Geographic January 30, 2014 Destruction of stocks of illegal ivory has been prevalent news in the media lately. Most recently...
View ArticleJapanese appetite for ivory fuels poaching epidemic
Poorly controlled ivory sales in Japan are encouraging illegal trade in elephant tusks and large amounts of ivory are entering the domestic market. Online selling and weak controls on domestic ivory...
View ArticleBelgium to Destroy Its Illegal Ivory Next Month
By Denise Chow, Staff Writer | March 26, 2014 03:57pm ET Belgium is slated to destroy its entire stockpile of illegal ivory next month, joining the United States, China and several other countries...
View ArticleHow wildlife crime links us all to conflicts in Africa
Editorial, New Scientist15 May 2014 The funding of Boko Haram’s atrocities by the illegal ivory trade show that poaching is not just a problem for conservationists, but for all of usMORE than 200 girls...
View ArticleHuge Haul of Smuggled Ivory Came From Kenya (Cambodia)
By Khy Sovuthy and Simon Henderson, The Cambodia Daily May 23, 2014 The three-ton haul of illegal elephant ivory seized by port officials on May 9 originated in Kenya and was then shipped through...
View ArticleAfrican Nations Call On the World to Help Them Save African Elephants
Montreux, 29 June 2016: The African Elephant Coalition (AEC), comprising 29 African countries, are calling on the world to join them in saving elephants. The Montreux Manifesto, agreed at a meeting of...
View ArticleNotorious Kenyan Ivory Trafficker Jailed for 20 Years and Fined USD 200,000
Nairobi, 22 July 2016: Today a Mombasa Law Court pronounced judgement in a landmark ruling of Feisal Mohamed Ali and five others. Feisal Mohamed Ali was found guilty of illegal possession of ivory...
View ArticleCELEBRATING WORLD ELEPHANT DAY IN SAMBURU WITH KENYAN CHILDREN
Nairobi, 09 August 2016: This week, WildlifeDirect is celebrating World Lion Day and World Elephant Day by taking 100 children to Samburu National Reserve for a 3 day camping expedition from 12th -14th...
View ArticleAfrican, Japanese and international conservation NGO’s call on President...
Nairobi, 26 August 2016: Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) is a conference held regularly with the objective “to promote high-level policy dialogue between African leaders...
View ArticleTracking Technology Deployed to Help Keep Giant Tusker from Crops
Nairobi September 16, 2016: One of Kenya’s largest tuskers has been fitted with a GPS tracking collar to allow Kenya Wildlife Service and their non-governmental partners to prevent him from raiding...
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