August 02

• Anti-Poaching Wins Thai Support

  Daily News

  The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Amb. Khamis Kagasheki said the Thailand Prime Minister, Ms Yingluck Shinawatra who on Wednesday visited the Serengeti National Park... Read more »

• Rangers Impound Seven Submachine Guns in Serengeti Park

  Daily News

  SEVEN submachine guns (SMGs) have been confiscated from poachers by rangers in Serengeti National Park (SENAPA) in recent months. Read more »

• Tourists Throng Serengeti to Witness Wildebeest Migration

  Daily News

  THE number of vehicles ferrying tourists entering and leaving the country via the Tanzanian/Kenyan Sirari Border Post has significantly increased this season. Read more »

August 01

• Tana River Trader Passes Off Warthog Meat As Beef

  The Star

  A man has been arrested in Madogo, Tana River county with more than 90 kilogrammes of warthog meat. This comes barely three days after the government warned residents against... Read more »

• Four Tanzanian Security Officers Dismissed Over Poaching

  Sabahi

  Head of Tanzania's Kiteto Prison Ally Ramadhani Sauko and his deputy Joseph Kimaro have been fired for possession of giraffe, zebra and ostrich meat, Tanzania's The Citizen... Read more »

• When Wild Animals Seek Refuge in Maasai Bomas

  Daily News

  WILD animals, especially hunted herbivores of Ngorongoro, have of late started to seek refuge within Maasai residential enclosures where they are reportedly feeling safer from... Read more »

• Roaming Game Cause Conflicts

  The Star

  The increase in human-wildlife conflicts in Naivasha has been blamed on the high number of wild animals roaming outside gazzetted areas.Everlyne Sikale, an ecologist with KWS, said... Read more »

• Elephant Poaching Probe At Khorixas

  Namibian

  THE Protective Resources Unit (PRU) of the Erongo Police are investigating two incidents of alleged elephant poaching near Khorixas after two carcasses were discovered in the area... Read more »

July 31

• Kenyan Police Arrest Three Suspected Poachers

  Sabahi

  Kenyan police arrested three people in Narok Tuesday (July 30th) on suspicions that they were on their way to poach animals at the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya's Daily Nation... Read more »

• First Lady Kicks Off Elephants Campaign

  The Star

  The Elephant conservation initiative dubbed "Hands Off Our Elephants" campaign was launched by First Lady Margaret Kenyatta on Friday evening at the Sankara Nairobi Hotel. Read more »

July 30

• Tanzanian Authorities Arrest Nine Suspects With 70 Elephant Tusks

  Sabahi

  Authorities have arrested nine people, including two police officers, in possession of 70 elephant tusks in Tanzania's Coast region, Tanzania's The Citizen reported Monday (July... Read more »

• Police Officers Arrested Over Rhino Poaching

  AIM

  Three members of the Mozambican police force (PRM) have been detained in Magude district, in Maputo province, over their alleged involvement in rhinoceros poaching. They also face... Read more »

July 29

• Lunar Cycle May Influence Elephants' Crop 'Raids'

  VOA

  African elephants appear to use the cover of darkness to avoid being detected by humans when raiding farmlands for food, according to a new study. Read more »

• Elephant Frightens U.S. Film Star

  Daily News

  THE world's most popular Television Talkshow queen, Oprah Winfrey, was accosted by a giant Jumbo while touring the Serengeti, Tanzania's second largest National Park. Read more »

• There Is a Zebra in Swakop

  Namibian

  SWAKOPMUND was abuzz on Friday morning after a zebra mare and her foal were spotted at Vineta - followed by a frantic attempt to catch them and return them to the wild. Read more »

• Spend a Day With Chimps

  New Vision

  If you have never heard of CHEX, let me introduce you: Chex is the funky way to refer to the Chimpanzee Habituation Experience, a new treat where one can be with chimpanzees in the... Read more »

• KWS On the Spot As Wild Animals Roam Freely in the Kisumu Cbd

  The Star

  THE Kenya Wildlife Service is on the spot over wild animals roaming around in Kisumu County. Read more »

• Poaching Fines Too Lenient

  The Star

  Poaching fines are too lenient and jail sentences too short ,thus leaving offenders free to continue killing our wildlife.Paula Kahumbu a conservationist says this will only be... Read more »

July 28

• Anti-Poaching Officer in Kiteto Deserves Award

  Daily News

  PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete's words of encouragement uttered in Kaboya Barracks in Muleba district, Kagera region on Thursday consoled me. Read more »

July 27

• Hands Off Our Elephants, Says First Lady

  Capital FM

  First lady Margaret Kenyatta on Friday evening launched an anti-poaching campaign to respond to rampant poaching, which continues to reap Kenya of its most affluent and significant... Read more »

• Three Swiss Missing in Murang'a Plane Mishap

  The Star

  THE police in Murang'a is on a search of a light wing air craft that got off the radar on Thursday evening. Police believe the aircraft had three Swiss passengers on board who were... Read more »

• Rearing Lions, Zebras Could Save L. Mburo [opinion]

  New Vision

  Wild animals have been trapped in a wave of land use change around Lake Mburo National Park in western Uganda. A bigger part of what used to be a game park is now in the hands of... Read more »

• The Herds Have Returned

  The Star

  The early winter morning was crisp as I drove into the park. A few minutes later, I was stopped by an 'official zebra roadblock'. What a sight! Everywhere I looked there were... Read more »

• Lionesses Are Mothers Above Other Mothers

  Daily News

  TIME and generation have passed but the song and stories which talk about the callousness of step mothers remain as a warning to a child growing up in the neighbourhoods of such... Read more »

July 25

• Soldiers Trade in Illegal Ivory

  IPS

  At a popular tourist art market in Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, paintings and art sculptures made from bronze, copper, malachite, stone or wood attract visitors.... Read more »