Wildlife, biodiversity.
Zimbabwe recorded a 30% decline in revenue from sport hunting since the United States banned all ivory and elephant trophies from Zimbabwe last April, an official said at the end of last month. In...
Lansing, MI – Environmentalists are celebrating Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s veto of SB 78 today, a bill which would have prohibited the state Department of Natural Resources from designating biodiversity areas and would remove...
A new report by The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) called Vanishing Points – Criminality, Corruption and the Devastation of Tanzania’s Elephants has revealed that Tanzania is officially the world’s largest source of poached ivory...
A couple of weeks ago a report came out trumpeting that in 2014 the demand for rhino horn in Vietnam had dropped significantly when compared to 2013 – by 38% to be exact. The...
It looks like South Africa is going to break another record: 2014 is set to exceed 2013’s 1,004 rhino poached. But sadly, it’s not as though the nation is sitting back and doing nothing...
Harare, Zimbabwe – Conservationists are concerned at reports in Zimbabwe’s media that the Safari Operators Association of Zimbabwe (SOAZ), whose membership comprises almost exclusively of hunting operators, is set to hand over information requested...
In perhaps the first formal study of its kind, a report entitled Dead or Alive? Comparing Costs and Benefits of Lethal and Non-Lethal Human Wildlife Conflict Mitigation on Livestock Farms, has revealed, somewhat surprisingly,...
Every 15 minutes an elephant is butchered for its tusks. That is 100 elephants every day. Nonetheless, the South African Minister of Water and Environment Affairs, Edna Molewa, recently said: “We did an ivory...
South African award winning ocean conservationist, Lesley Rochat, has stripped naked to campaign against shark culling. In response to the use of baited drumlines in Western Australia and South Africa, a controversial program to...
France – In their latest campaign against laboratory-tested primates PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has given 26 reasons why you should never fly Air France. Air France, says the PETA campaign,...
