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ELEPHANT POACHING IN AFRICA
Rainbow coloured phantom lakes appear beside Namibia’s Great White Place in stunning satellite imagesAstronauts captured a stunning display of vibrant, shimmering lakes in Namibia's Etosha Pan, a rare event following heavy flooding. These e...- Energy shock ripples from kitchens to forests as Africa and South Asia grapple with rising fuel costsGlobal fuel price hikes are pushing families in Kenya and India back to burning charcoal and wood. This reversal threatens years of progres...
- Why Are Some Elephants Born Without Tusks Despite Their Natural Need for Them? The Evolutionary Puzzle UncoveredField rangers observed fewer tusked female elephants. Decades of ivory hunting in Gorongosa National Park favored tuskless survivors. This ...
- How Satellites Are Revealing Secret Animal Migrations Across the PlanetTracking animals from space is now possible. Satellites monitor sea turtles, elephants, and whales. This technology helps understand animal...
- Two weeks in the Kenyan outdoorsA journey through Kenya revealed the impactful intersection of tourism and wildlife conservation, particularly for indigenous communities.
- Tigers are not out of the woods yetIndia faced a severe decline in its tiger population post-independence. Project Tiger helped increase the numbers significantly. Now, the t...
- The mystery behind the deaths of over 350 elephants in Botswana revealedResearchers confirmed toxic cyanobacteria in waterholes caused the mysterious deaths of over 350 elephants in Botswana in 2020. Satellite d...
- If you want to protect animals, you have to protect humans first: Sumeet Gulati, Professor, University of British Columbia, CanadaCongress leader Rahul Gandhi halted his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra due to protests after three people were killed by wild elephants. The cost o...
- Saving the wildlife is not just a conservation pointWith Parliament reconvening, the amended Forest Bill is up for approval. To save wildlife, we also need to rethink our economic and conserv...
- African elephants at growing risk of extinction: Red List
- Botswana's mass elephant deaths caused by bacteria: GovtMore than 300 of the pachyderms have mysteriously died since March, with their intact tusks ruling out the hypothesis that they were killed...
- Extinction Watch: How African Black Rhino came back from extinctionBetween 2012 and 2018, the Black Rhino (Diceros bicornis) population across Africa has grown at a modest annual rate of 2.5% from an estima...
- China ban on ivory sales begins Sunday, aims to curb elephant poachingPublic awareness campaigns featuring celebrities have helped boost awareness of the bloody cost of ivory. Wildlife groups estimate 30,000 e...
- Conservationists plan to relocate 500 elephants in MalawiNext month, wildlife experts in Malawi will start moving up to 500 elephants to a sanctuary that they hope could eventually serve as a rese...
- Angelina Jolie blasted by animal welfare foundationFive of the Oscar-winning actress's six children took an elephant ride near the Cambodian city of Angkor Wat during a break in filming of h...
- Global wildlife populations down by half since 1970: WWFA shocking report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has found that 52% of the world's animals have vanished in 40 years.
- Obama in $10 million effort to cut wildlife traffickingHe said that rhinoceros horn was worth around $30,000 per pound on the black market -- making it literally worth more than its weight in go...
- Ruthless crime gangs driving global wildlife tradeHundreds of rangers have been killed over recent years as poachers stop at nothing in their quest for lucrative animal parts such as ivory ...
- South African demand for legal trade in rhino horns leaves India jitteryThe surge of poaching of rhinoceros in South Africa could lead to threats to the one-horned Indian rhino in faraway Assam and West Bengal i...
- China says it is committed to wildlife protectionChinese government attaches great importance to protection of wildlife, including elephants and has initiated a series of laws and regulati...
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