Every year, poachers kill around 30,000 African elephants for the illegal wildlife trade. The insatiable demand for ivory, mainly to supply Asian markets, has resulted in elephant population declines of…
n January 29, a 37-year-old Englishman and ardent conservationist named Roger Gower was piloting a helicopter over Tanzania’s Maswa Game Reserve when he spotted the corpse. With safari guide Nick…
The global conservation community has taken a step towards ending the slaughter of elephants for the illegal ivory trade. At the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation…
Malaysia has become the primary transit country for illegal Africa-sourced elephant ivory, a new report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, has revealed. The southeast Asian country has no domestic…
Elephant populations across Africa's savannas are plummeting due to poaching for the ivory trade reveals the most comprehensive elephant survey ever conducted. Backed by philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen,…
Poaching has decimated elephant populations across Africa. Every year, an estimated 30,000 African elephants are killed for the illegal ivory trade, and fewer than 400,000 animals are thought to remain today.…
In an operation led by the Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF) between July 28 and August 2, wildlife enforcement teams arrested two businessmen in the Republic of Congo believed to…
On Friday, a Kenyan court sentenced Feisal Ali Mohamed, an ivory poaching kingpin, to 20 years in jail. Mohamed was found guilty of dealing in ivory worth $433,000 (or 44…
Illegal ivory markets are booming in Vietnam. The sale of ivory products has increased by over six times from 2008 to 2015, according to a new report released Tuesday by Save…
Marine biologist Carl Safina is a noted author and research professor at Stony Brook University, where he focuses on ocean sciences and is co-chair of the Alan Alda Center for…
The United States will enforce a "near-total ban" on the commercial trade of elephant ivory. The move, announced today by the Fish & Wildlife Service, comes after years of campaigning…
Elephant poachers killed three wildlife rangers and wounded two more in a shootout yesterday in Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, reports African Parks, a conservation group…
On March 18, a court in Tanzania sentenced two Chinese men to 30 years each in jail for smuggling ivory, local media reported. They face an additional five years of…
The ongoing civil war in South Sudan is taking a severe toll on the country’s wildlife and other natural resources, conservationists warn. There has been a “sharp” rise in illegal…
On January 29, elephant poachers shot and killed Roger Gower, a British helicopter pilot, in Tanzania. Gower, 37, and Nicky Bester, a safari guide, were flying over Maswa game reserve…
In May 2012, customs authorities at the Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka seized a shipment of 359 African elephant tusks. The ivory shipment, weighing around 1.5 tons, was being…
Tanzania’s most wanted elephant poacher, Boniface Matthew Mariango, referred to by law enforcement officials as “The Devil” (or “Shetani” in Kiswahili), has been arrested after a manhunt that lasted for…
On Tuesday, an overwhelming majority of Washington voters -- around 71 percent -- passed an anti-wildlife trafficking initiative called Initiative 1401 (I-1401) that bans trade in wildlife parts and products.…
At a time when U.S. and China have pledged to take steps to end ivory trade in their countries, Hong Kong — one of the largest hubs for illegal ivory —…
A Chinese national dubbed the “Queen of Ivory” has been arrested in Tanzania. Yang Feng Glan, 66, was arrested after returning from Uganda to Tanzania. She has been charged with…
The state of California has officially banned the sale of virtually all elephant ivory and rhino horn. On Sunday California governor Jerry Brown signed state assembly bill AB 96 into…
On Friday, September 25, Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama pledged to end commercial ivory sales in their countries. In a joint statement, China and the United…
Today the California Senate approved legislation that would ban the ivory and rhinoceros horn across the state. AB 96 passed 26-13, reflecting widespread support for the measure, which aims to…
On August 11, the eve of World Elephant Day, a group of 250 scientists from varied backgrounds, disciplines and organizations around the world sent a letter to Barack Obama urging…
In response to growing concerns about elephant poaching, President Obama today announced a new push to limit the ivory trade in the United States.
Ivory crush in New York Times Square. Photo Credit: Kelsey Williams/FWS Public awareness of the global elephant ivory poaching crisis got a high profile boost today with the crush of…
In this commentary, Fred Bercovitch, wildlife conservation biologist at Kyoto University, confronts the conservation community with an unconventional approach to stopping the ivory trade and illegal elephant killing. The views…
Elephant in South Africa. Photos by Rhett A. Butler. The Chinese government announced today that it will "eventually" shut down its legal domestic ivory market. The move, which surprised conservationists,…
. An outfit usually associated with investigating arms dealers and weapons traffickers is applying its advanced network mapping capabilities to criminal wildlife trafficking syndicates. This week Washington D.C.-based C4ADS unveiled…
Elephant in South Africa.. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. China has established a one-year ban on imports of carved African elephant ivory. Conservationists say the move, effective immediately, sends an…
