Customs officials in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, have seized a giant elephant’s foot that has been converted into a velvet-covered container. The foot was from the U.K. and intended for a recipient in Germany. The illegal item did not have the proper paperwork, and it was reportedly intended to be a gift for a Swiss person that […]
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Which Mammals Can Best Survive Climate Change?
With the world experiencing more extreme weather due to climate change, landscapes are being altered and ecosystems are having to respond quickly. So which species are going to struggle and which are going to fare relatively well as extended droughts, heavy rains and floods reshape the world’s terrain? In a new study, biologists Christie Le […]
Elephants in Southern Africa – Management Issues and Options
Elephant conservation in southern Africa has been remarkably successful over the last century. The region’s elephant populations collapsed in the late 1880s through over-hunting, but their numbers have since increased more than 20-fold; from less than a few thousand to 250,000 – 300,000 today. The overall biomass of elephants in southern Africa is now higher […]
Sick trophy hunting trips to shoot African elephants, rhinos and lions on sale in UK
Sickening trophy hunting trips to shoot elephants, rhinos and lions in Africa were on sale at the UK’s first ever stalking show. Nearly 90 exhibitors attended the two-day event. Among the Brits at the Staffordshire County Show cashing in on the bloodthirsty safaris was Venari UK, an agent offering trips to South Africa. A representative […]
Cash-strapped Zimbabwe pushes to be allowed to sell its ivory stockpile
HWANGE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s government recently concluded a conference to attempt to rally international support for the sale of its ivory stockpile. It argues that selling some of the 136 metric tons of elephant ivory and rhino horn that it’s holding — mostly from animals that died of natural causes — could fund its conservation […]
Ivory from at least 150 poached elephants seized in the DRC raid
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have seized 2 metric tons of ivory in the city of Lubumbashi, a hub for ivory trafficking. The May 14 seizure is one of the largest in recent years, according to Adams Cassinga, who heads Conserv Congo, an NGO that fights wildlife trafficking and which took part in […]
Trophy hunter paid $50,000 to kill Botswana’s biggest elephant for its record-breaking tusks
Trophy hunters in Botswana slaughtered the country’s largest elephant for its nearly 8-foot-long tusks. According to Wildlife At Risk International, the elephant had 200 pounds of ivory in its tusks and was the largest to be hunted in the country since 1996. According to The New York Times, the trophy hunter traveled to Botswana and […]
Why are US Hunters still obtaining permits to import elephant hunting trophies from Zimbabwe and Namibia?
Washington D.C. — Animal welfare groups and conservation activists are taking issue with a recent decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to issue permits to hunters wanting to import elephant hunting trophies into the United States from the African countries of Zimbabwe and Namibia. The Center for Biological Diversity (the Center) brought […]