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Despite international efforts to halt the trade of ivory, the criminalized industry is once again flourishing on multiple continents, according to a new report released by the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS). The findings of the report signal a threat to reverse valuable gains achieved in the elimination of elephant poaching over the last two decades.
SA, once famous for saving rhinos from potential extinction, is fast becoming a big supplier of illegal rhino horn, with more than 250 animals poached across the country in the past five years.
Great White sharks are apex predators, and should not be taken lightly, the City of Cape Town has warned.
The African elephant may not survive for long given the level of sophistication adopted by poachers.
At least 70 people have been arrested in connection with illegal poaching in the Selous game reserve following a crackdown conducted in the last 17 days.
Two fishermen from Karim Lamido local government area of Taraba State went fishing recently, but instead of fish their nets caught wild Eagles, which were discovered to have migrated from Finland in far away Europe. Specimens of the Eagles were taken to the National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, near Jos, to ascertain whether or not they are carriers of the dreaded avian influenza virus.
UGANDA has seen its second rhino born at the Nakasongola sanctuary this year. After giving birth to a bull calf named Barack Obama six months ago, another male calf was produced at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary this weekend.
SA HAS done a superb job of growing rhino numbers from about 100 in 1900 to 18000 today. In the rest of Africa, rhino populations have declined from 100000 in 1965 to 5000 today.
The seemingly unending menace of hippos rampange has intensified again in some parts of the Central River Region with the latest one in Nyanga Bantang ward in Niani district of the area.
The government should consider creating a safe corridor for elephants to roam about due to congestion in most national game parks, the Amuru Resident District Commissioner, has said.
Two infant eagles, suspected to be male and a female and believed to have migrated from a zoo in Finland, were last week trapped separately by two young fishermen in a river called Thaton in Karim-Lamido Local Government Area in Taraba State.Confirming the discovery to newsmen yesterday in his office, the state Commissioner of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr. Godwin Nyame, said a young man ...
The Beitbridge Rural District Council is working on measures to curb rampant poaching of wildlife and natural resources in the district, an official has said.
AT least 18 goats in Koch-Goma sub-county in Amuru district have been killed by stray elephants from Murchison Falls National Park since the beginning of the year, the LC3 chairman, John Bosco Okullo, said on Thursday.
A five-day training on biodiversity conservation and management for forestry officers, last Thursday, November 19th commenced at the Darwin Field Station, located right in the heart of the Abuko Nature Reserve.
The Okavango Delta, which has been described as the world's largest inland delta, is the lifeline of the people living on its banks.
A third of the world's amphibians, a fifth of all mammals and 70 per cent of all plants are under threat, according to the latest Red List published just two months before the world marks the International Year of Biodiversity in 2010.
The Uganda Wildlife Authority plane that crash-landed about 100 metres after take-off in Adjumani district
Kenya is opposing a move by Tanzania to reintroduce the sale of ivory, saying it will increase elephant poaching in the region.
It was all excitement in Mangola Village, Karatu District when local residents discovered the rare Pangolin an animal believed to be able to predict the future, or something.
An expert on Friday warned that the banning of hunting in preference to photographic safaris could have a devastating effect on the environment and the wildlife it is expected to preserve.
The boundaries of Akagera National Park are set to be re-demarcated following a cabinet approval giving a go ahead for the exercise and fencing the park in the Eastern Province.
LEADERS from Kapchorwa district have appealed to the parliamentary social services committee to liaise with the Government to quickly settle the land dispute between the Benet and Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA).
"We have been reduced to begging from relatives and to migrate to urban areas where life is not safe. We were living in the mountain for more than 200 years. Transferring us means burying us, completely. We want to stay in our area and develop."
The illicit trade in ivory, which has been increasing in volume since 2004, moved sharply upward in 2009, according to the latest analysis of seizure data in the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS).
FOUR cheetah cubs that were rescued in July this year - Polly, Tony, Mischief and Phil have made great progress through rehabilitation efforts and are now in great health.
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