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					<title>After terror attacks, Mozambique nature reserve faces ‘new reality’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/after-terror-attacks-mozambique-nature-reserve-faces-new-reality/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Jun 2025 15:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ashoka Mukpo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Mozambique]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, Crime, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Organized Crime, Protected Areas, Social Conflict, Terrorism, Violence, Wildlife, and Wildlife Rangers]]>
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							<![CDATA[BERLIN — Islamist fighters affiliated with ISIS have left a Mozambican wildlife reserve following a series of deadly attacks that claimed the lives of at least 10 people, including two wildlife rangers, according to the head of the country’s National Administration of Conservation Areas. “We still have a challenging environment, but we have clear indications [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BERLIN — Islamist fighters affiliated with ISIS have left a Mozambican wildlife reserve following a series of deadly attacks that claimed the lives of at least 10 people, including two wildlife rangers, according to the head of the country’s National Administration of Conservation Areas. “We still have a challenging environment, but we have clear indications that the insurgents are moving out of the reserve,” Pejulo Calenga told local press last week. The attacks on April 29 targeted tourism and conservation facilities in northern Mozambique’s Niassa Special Reserve, forcing their closure as units of the Mozambican army deployed. Two rangers working with the Niassa Carnivore Project (NCP) remain missing. More than 30 Islamist fighters attacked the Mariri Environmental and Skills Training Centre, which houses the NCP, a conservation group that’s worked inside the reserve for more than 20 years. Most of the group’s staff had already been evacuated following a separate attack on a hunting safari camp 10 days earlier, but a contingent of rangers and Mozambican soldiers were still there when the rebels arrived. In an email to Mongabay, Colleen Begg, the NCP director, said she wasn’t sure when project staff would be able to return to work. “It seems like the insurgents have withdrawn from the Niassa Province portion of Niassa Reserve, but it is not known whether they are still in the eastern sections of Niassa Reserve across the Lugenda River in Cabo Delgado [province], or whether they intend to return,” she wrote. The fighters are members of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/after-terror-attacks-mozambique-nature-reserve-faces-new-reality/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-300053</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Trained to stop poaching, Benin park rangers instead face jihadists</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/trained-to-stop-poaching-benin-park-rangers-instead-face-jihadists/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/trained-to-stop-poaching-benin-park-rangers-instead-face-jihadists/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 Aug 2024 10:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ashoka Mukpo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Benin, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environment, Governance, Law Enforcement, Politics, Protected Areas, Terrorism, War, Wildlife, and Wildlife Rangers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Northern Benin is fast becoming one of the most dangerous areas in the world for wildlife rangers: In late July, five rangers working for the conservation NGO African Parks were killed in an attack by militants along with seven Beninese soldiers in W National Park, which borders Burkina Faso and Niger. The incident comes just [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Northern Benin is fast becoming one of the most dangerous areas in the world for wildlife rangers: In late July, five rangers working for the conservation NGO African Parks were killed in an attack by militants along with seven Beninese soldiers in W National Park, which borders Burkina Faso and Niger. The incident comes just over two years after a roadside bomb ambush claimed the lives of five African Parks rangers and a French anti-poaching trainer. That attack also took place inside W, which is now a crucial front in West Africa’s struggle to contain jihadist insurgencies that began expanding across the Sahel region in 2011. W is part of the W-Arly-Pendjari Complex, a 34,000-square-kilometer (13,100-square-mile) landscape that contains some of the region’s last remaining elephants, cheetahs and lions. A sprawling mix of wooded savanna, swampy estuaries and gallery forests, W-Arly-Pendjari is one of the few remaining habitats capable of carrying sizeable populations of major fauna in West Africa. The complex lies across the borders of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger. Beginning in the late 2010s, militant groups began to entrench themselves in the latter two, drawn by a governance vacuum, the landscape’s dense forests and its lucrative trade and smuggling routes. “The jihadists are able to navigate through the park quite easily, particularly on the Burkina and Niger side,” said Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim, deputy director of the International Crisis Group’s Sahel Project, and the author of a 2023 report about activity of armed groups inside W. “The Benin authorities&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/trained-to-stop-poaching-benin-park-rangers-instead-face-jihadists/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-286414</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Benin, the line between conservation and counterinsurgency blurs</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/in-benin-a-thin-line-between-conservation-and-counterinsurgency/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Mar 2022 12:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ashoka Mukpo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forest Fragmentation, Forests, Governance, Law Enforcement, National Parks, NGOs, Poaching, Politics, Protected Areas, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Terrorism, Violence, Wildlife, and Wildlife Rangers]]>
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							<![CDATA[In early February, wildlife rangers in the remote northern forests of West Africa’s Republic of Benin became some of the most recent victims of the Sahel’s long-running Islamist insurgency when a series of roadside bombs was set off next to one of their patrols. After a rescue team in four vehicles arrived to evacuate the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In early February, wildlife rangers in the remote northern forests of West Africa’s Republic of Benin became some of the most recent victims of the Sahel’s long-running Islamist insurgency when a series of roadside bombs was set off next to one of their patrols. After a rescue team in four vehicles arrived to evacuate the wounded and dying rangers, more bombs were detonated. The attack was devastating. In tandem with another IED ambush just two days later, it left four rangers dead along with two drivers and a French anti-poaching trainer. Twelve more people were hospitalized. All were employees of African Parks, a South African conservation group that manages two national parks in northern Benin, including W National Park, the site of the bombings. In a statement, African Parks called the ambush “extremely complex,” saying it had been planned to cause as many casualties as possible. The bombings were the worst in a series of cross-border terrorist attacks in northern Benin that began last year and which have escalated in the first months of 2022, as militant Islamist groups operating out of Burkina Faso make ever more brazen incursions into the coastal nation. In the days after the attack, France launched retaliatory air strikes in Burkina Faso, killing what a spokesperson for the French military told Mongabay were 40 members of an “armed terrorist group.” According to the Wall Street Journal, they are thought to have been connected to Ansarul Islam, a group active in Burkina Faso that has ties&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/in-benin-a-thin-line-between-conservation-and-counterinsurgency/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-253419</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Links between terrorism and the ivory trade overblown, study says</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/links-between-terrorism-and-the-ivory-trade-overblown-study-says/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Feb 2022 15:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ashoka Mukpo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Ashoka]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, Crime, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Hunting, Illegal Trade, International Trade, Ivory, Law, Law Enforcement, Organized Crime, Poaching, Politics, Protected Areas, Terrorism, Wildlife, Wildlife Rangers, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[“The white gold of jihad.” “Case proven: ivory trafficking funds terrorism.” “How killing elephants finances terror in Africa.” Just a few years ago, headlines like this were commonplace, as conservation campaigners looking to draw attention to the slaughter of elephants and other wildlife touted the involvement of terrorist organizations like al-Shabaab in Somalia and Boko [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“The white gold of jihad.” “Case proven: ivory trafficking funds terrorism.” “How killing elephants finances terror in Africa.” Just a few years ago, headlines like this were commonplace, as conservation campaigners looking to draw attention to the slaughter of elephants and other wildlife touted the involvement of terrorist organizations like al-Shabaab in Somalia and Boko Haram in Nigeria. But a new study published in the journal Global Environmental Politics says that evidence for those links was flimsy, even as they were cited to justify tougher and more punitive conservation policies in Africa. “The publicly available evidence base for the relationship between poaching and armed non-state actors is very thin,” said Rosaleen Duffy, the study’s author and chair of international politics at the University of Sheffield, U.K. “In the al-Shabaab case I think it’s been largely discredited.” The study presented the findings of 43 anonymous interviews conducted with conservation practitioners who included donor organization staff, ranger trainers, and NGO workers. Despite little evidence that the wildlife trade was a primary source of financing for armed groups, some of the interviewees said the narrative had nonetheless been useful in fundraising and capturing the attention of U.S. policymakers. “The conservation community has not really expressed a whole lot of skepticism because it is driving money their way,” one of the interviewees, described as a “D.C.-based conservationist,” said as quoted in the study. Community rangers guard elephants in Sera Conservancy, Northern Rangelands, Kenya. Image by USAID Biodiversity &amp; Forestry via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/links-between-terrorism-and-the-ivory-trade-overblown-study-says/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-252211</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘Criminalizing’ dissent, martial law fuel attacks on Philippine environmental defenders</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/criminalizing-dissent-martial-law-fuel-attacks-on-philippine-environmental-defenders/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/criminalizing-dissent-martial-law-fuel-attacks-on-philippine-environmental-defenders/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>28 Jul 2020 21:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Leilani Chavez]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Leilani]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Philippines, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Community Forests, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Endangered Environmentalists, Endangered Species, Farming, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Military, Mining, Social Justice, and Terrorism]]>
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							<![CDATA[MANILA — Forty-three land and environmental defenders were killed in the Philippines in 2019, according to a new report from the watchdog group Global Witness. The tally marks out the Philippines as the most dangerous country in Asia and the second most dangerous in the world for those taking a stand against environmental destruction. According [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MANILA — Forty-three land and environmental defenders were killed in the Philippines in 2019, according to a new report from the watchdog group Global Witness. The tally marks out the Philippines as the most dangerous country in Asia and the second most dangerous in the world for those taking a stand against environmental destruction. According to the group, the criminalization of environmental and land defenders under the mantle of anti-terrorism policies imposed by President Rodrigo Duterte contributed to the attacks in the Philippines in 2019. “[The Philippines] has been consistently named as one of the worst places in Asia for attacks against defenders,” the report says. “The relentless vilification of defenders by the government and widespread impunity for their attackers may well be driving the increase.” The Philippines has been frequently listed among top countries considered dangerous for environmental and land defenders in Global Witness’s annual reports, and this year is no exception. A large-scale mining site ni Dinagat Island. Mining contributes only a tiny proportion to the Philippines&#8217; GDP yet this industry sees the most number of murdered environmental defenders in the Philippines. Image by Erwin Mascarinas | Global Witness In 2016, the watchdog recorded 28 environmental and land defender deaths in the Philippines, a figure that rose to 48 deaths in 2017 — regarded as the bloodiest year on record in the Philippines and the highest number ever documented in an Asian country, Global Witness said. In 2018, 30 deaths were recorded in the country, which put it&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/criminalizing-dissent-martial-law-fuel-attacks-on-philippine-environmental-defenders/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-233138</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Activists fighting for their lands swept up in Philippines crackdown</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/11/activists-fighting-for-their-lands-swept-up-in-philippines-crackdown/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Nov 2019 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Leilani]]>
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							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Philippines, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Agriculture, Endangered Environmentalists, Environment, Human Rights, Land Conflict, Land Reform, Land Rights, Law, Terrorism, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[MANILA — Environment and land rights leaders were among the activists rounded up in a new wave of arrests in the Philippines as part of the government’s extensive counter-insurgency campaign to flush out sympathizers of the outlawed New People’s Army (NPA) while international humanitarian groups, alongside local church groups, were accused of being “legal communist [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MANILA — Environment and land rights leaders were among the activists rounded up in a new wave of arrests in the Philippines as part of the government’s extensive counter-insurgency campaign to flush out sympathizers of the outlawed New People’s Army (NPA) while international humanitarian groups, alongside local church groups, were accused of being “legal communist fronts” and aiding terrorism. A total of 57 activists were arrested on Oct. 31 in Negros, an island 850 kilometers (530 miles) from Manila, while another six were arrested in Manila on Nov. 5. Among the arrested are farmers and peasant group leaders fighting for their land rights in Negros Island and activists opposing the ongoing Manila Bay reclamation project. They were arrested in security crackdowns on major left-leaning organizations, with search warrants issued by a court in Metro Manila on Oct. 30. Environmental groups have denounced the arrests, which they say involved “planting evidence” in the form of explosives and guns in the homes of activists. Kalikasan PNE, an environmental NGO, says the tactic is similar to President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, known locally as Tokhang, which has left nearly 6,000 people dead since 2016. “We condemn this recent surge of Tokhang-style raids and arrests against land and environmental defenders and other activists by the police and military forces,” Clemente Bautista, international network coordinator of Kalikasan PNE, said in a statement. He added that the strategy “fits a national and global trend of criminalization of land rights and environmental activism not only in the Philippines&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/11/activists-fighting-for-their-lands-swept-up-in-philippines-crackdown/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-224567</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Kenya crackdown on terrorism threatens NGOs, wildlife, media</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/04/kenya-crackdown-on-terrorism-threatens-ngos-wildlife-media/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Apr 2015 17:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Protus Onyango]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Endangered Environmentalists, Environment, Governance, Green, Media, Protected Areas, Terrorism, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kenya’s elephants could be among the animals harmed by harsh new laws to hamstring the programs of international environmental groups such as the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Photo by Rhett Butler. The terrorist attack that killed at least 147 people at Garissa University on April 2nd was another [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kenya’s elephants could be among the animals harmed by harsh new laws to hamstring the programs of international environmental groups such as the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Photo by Rhett Butler. The terrorist attack that killed at least 147 people at Garissa University on April 2nd was another tragic milestone in Kenya’s ongoing battle with the al-Shabab terrorist group based in Somalia. In response to several other brutal attacks on civilians, Kenya’s government recently passed and proposed harsh new laws that are alarming environmental activists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the media, opposition politicians and the public. Stakeholders contend that the government is overreacting to the terrorist threat with laws that will shut down NGO operations, outlaw public demonstrations and gag the media &#8212; endangering conservation programs and the environment, doing serious economic harm to the country, while weakening independent voices and rolling back democratic gains. The legislation includes the Security Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2014 and the Information and Communications (Amendment) Act, 2013 &#8212; both recently signed into law by President Uhuru Kenyatta; plus amendments to the Public Benefits Organisation Act, 2013 and Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Bill, 2014 – currently being debated by the National Assembly. Putting Kenya’s environmental, health and service NGOs out of business Proposed amendments to the Public Benefits Organization Act (PBO) are directly aimed at restricting the activities, and even dismantling, Kenya’s 15,000 registered NGOs, including 3,000 international groups. Among the pending law’s provisions, is a 15 percent cap on&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/04/kenya-crackdown-on-terrorism-threatens-ngos-wildlife-media/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-23896</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Somali charcoal: funding terrorism through deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/03/somali-charcoal-funding-terrorism-through-deforestation/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Mar 2015 18:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Somalia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Crime, Environment, Forest Loss, Forests, Green, Habitat Loss, Illegal Logging, Terrorism, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Militant terrorist group Al-Shabaab funds itself, in part, through the]]>
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							<![CDATA[Militant terrorist group Al-Shabaab funds itself, in part, through theThis article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/03/somali-charcoal-funding-terrorism-through-deforestation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24027</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Elephants worth much, much more alive than dead, says new report</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/10/elephants-worth-much-much-more-alive-than-dead-says-new-report/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Oct 2014 19:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Chad, China, Kenya, and Vietnam]]>
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							<![CDATA[Crime, Economics, Elephants, Environment, Green, Hunting, Ivory, Poaching, Terrorism, and Wildlife Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[A living African elephant has 76 times the value of one poached for ivory, according to report Elephants are worth 76 times more when they’re alive than dead, according to a new analysis released this past weekend. The report follows on the heels of findings by WWF that the world has lost 50 percent of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A living African elephant has 76 times the value of one poached for ivory, according to report Elephants are worth 76 times more when they’re alive than dead, according to a new analysis released this past weekend. The report follows on the heels of findings by WWF that the world has lost 50 percent of its wildlife over the past 40 years, with more than half of African elephants killed for ivory in just one decade. The analysis, conducted through the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s iworry campaign, compared the value of elephants to local economies to profits netted through the illegal ivory trade. Between January and August 2014, researchers tallied approximately 17.8 metric tons of ivory seized worldwide, harvested from 1,940 poached elephants. Most of these seizures occurred in Kenya, Gabon, China, and Vietnam, countries identified by CITES as doing relatively little to stem the tide of black-market ivory. Anti-Poaching Teams with seized ivory. Photo courtesy of The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. In their report, iworry estimated the raw-ivory value of a poached elephant to be $21,000. In contrast, a living elephant is worth more than $1.6 million over its lifetime, largely because of its eco-tourism draw. The report lists travel companies, airlines, and local economies as benefitting from this largess of the world’s largest land mammal, whereas the ivory trade may fund criminal and terrorist groups. “The value of elephant tourism is extremely high, with a living elephant worth a shocking 76 times more alive in the savannah than&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/10/elephants-worth-much-much-more-alive-than-dead-says-new-report/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24605</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New report: illegal logging keeps militias and terrorist groups in business</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/06/new-report-illegal-logging-keeps-militias-and-terrorist-groups-in-business/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Jun 2014 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Janaki Lenin]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Brazil, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Indonesia, Nigeria, Somalia, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Crime, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Green, Logging, Rainforests, Terrorism, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Total profit from environmental crime may exceed $200 billion per year Deforestation has many harmful consequences, from loss of wildlife habitat to degradation of water and air quality, and many more. Now, a new report adds another repercussion to the list: the funding of terrorist groups and other crime networks. Entitled “The Environmental Crime Crisis” [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Total profit from environmental crime may exceed $200 billion per year Deforestation has many harmful consequences, from loss of wildlife habitat to degradation of water and air quality, and many more. Now, a new report adds another repercussion to the list: the funding of terrorist groups and other crime networks. Entitled “The Environmental Crime Crisis” and released last week by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) during the first United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, the report found that together with other other illicit operations such as poaching, illegal deforestation is one of the top money-makers for criminal groups like Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab. Burundi peacekeepers prepare for next rotation to Somalia to fight Al-Shabaab insurgents. Photo by US Army Africa. The report pegged the total worth of environmental crime, including logging, fishing, mining, wildlife trafficking, and waste, at $70 billion to $213 billion per year. Illegal logging alone was worth between $30 billion to $100 billion annually, while wildlife trafficking was worth $7 billion to $23 billion. As if the situation weren’t nightmarish already, organized criminals, militias, and terrorist groups reaped a significant amount of this ill-gotten lucre, especially in some African countries. In many parts of the world, wood smugglers are not prosecuted as stringently as wildlife poachers. Unlike dealing in illegal drugs, piracy, or wildlife crime, the probability of getting caught and convicted is low, while profits are high. Even worse, many conflict zones are in the vicinity of forests where governments have little reach. Illegal&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/06/new-report-illegal-logging-keeps-militias-and-terrorist-groups-in-business/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25005</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Tanzania should implement shoot-to-kill policy for poachers, says government minister</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/10/tanzania-should-implement-shoot-to-kill-policy-for-poachers-says-government-minister/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Oct 2013 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[David Smith]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Tanzania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Crime, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Ivory, Law Enforcement, Mammals, Poaching, Politics, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Terrorism, Wildlife, Wildlife Rangers, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[A government minister in Tanzania has called for a &#8220;shoot-to-kill&#8221; policy against poachers in a radical measure to curb the mass slaughter of elephants. Khamis Kagasheki&#8217;s proposal for perpetrators of the illicit ivory trade to be executed &#8220;on the spot&#8221; divided opinion, with some conservationists backing it as a necessary deterrent but others warning that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A government minister in Tanzania has called for a &#8220;shoot-to-kill&#8221; policy against poachers in a radical measure to curb the mass slaughter of elephants. Khamis Kagasheki&#8217;s proposal for perpetrators of the illicit ivory trade to be executed &#8220;on the spot&#8221; divided opinion, with some conservationists backing it as a necessary deterrent but others warning that it would lead to an escalation of violence. There are already signs of an increasing militarization of Africa&#8217;s wildlife parks with more than 1,000 rangers having been killed while protecting animals over the past decade, according to the Thin Green Line Foundation. Tanzania is said to have lost half its elephants in the past three years. &#8220;Poachers must be harshly punished because they are merciless people who wantonly kill our wildlife and sometimes wardens,&#8221; said Kagasheki at the end of an International March for Elephants, which took place in 15 countries to raise awareness of the poaching scourge. &#8220;The only way to solve this problem is to execute the killers on the spot.&#8221; Anticipating criticism, the natural resources and tourism minister added: &#8220;I am very aware that some alleged human rights activists will make an uproar, claiming that poachers have as much rights to be tried in courts as the next person, but let&#8217;s face it, poachers not only kill wildlife but also usually never hesitate to shoot dead any innocent person standing in their way.&#8221; Elephant in Tanzania. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Ivory has been dubbed the &#8220;white gold of jihad&#8221; by activists&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/10/tanzania-should-implement-shoot-to-kill-policy-for-poachers-says-government-minister/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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