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Despite successes, Congo Basin forests being ‘emptied’ of their elephants
Authorities protecting the Gabonese segment of Central Africa’s biggest forest elephant stronghold captured a record number of poachers last week. However, “terrifying” intelligence gathered from...
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Poachers kill over 11,000 elephants in Gabon
According to a study by the Gabonese National Parks Agency, WWF and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), poachers have killed an estimated 11,100 elephants – between 44 to 77 per cent of the...
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Thai prime minister announces end to ivory trade
Prime Minister Shinawatra said at the opening of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Bangkok that Thailand would take steps to end ivory trade...
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Field reports indicate slaughter of elephants, conservation staff evacuated
The world learned more terrible news about elephants again last week: more forest elephants are being slaughtered near the Dzanga-Sangha protected areas, in violence-ridden Central African Republic...
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How Nepal got to zero poaching
Nepal, the small Himalayan country that likens itself to a yam caught between two stones with China to the north and India to the south, has been able to achieve 365 days without any rhinos, tigers or...
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