| Boere Rhino Mafia beat the rap
Saturday Star | 13 September, 2014 | Rhishja Cota-Larson |
In 2003, an unexpected criminal element was taking root in South Africa. Certain safari operators were found to be using legal trophy hunts as a front for running rhino horn to Vietnam. Six years later, the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC noted in its report ahead of CITES CoP15 that the bogus hunts were taking … Full Story ? |
| Are South Africa’s wild elephants heading for captivity?
SA Breaking News | 17 September, 2014 | Glynis O’Hara | Free to Republish
Yes, say conservationists if proposals to change The Elephant Norms and Standards (ENS) law are accepted by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA). Conservation groups are up in arms over reports that elephants could be imported and exported from the country, wild elephants legally captured for commercial use and all welfare protection for the animals … Full Story ? |
| SA conservationists welcome stricter sentencing of wildlife criminals
Saturday Star | 13 September, 2013 | Martina Polley | Free to Republish
Conservationists across South Africa have commended the severe penalty meted out in Cape Town last week to Cheng Jie Liang, a Chinese national for the illegal possession of one ton of elephant tusks. Jie Liang was sentenced to 10 years in jail and a R5 million fine for possessing one ton of poached elephant tusks, … Full Story ? |
| In Chad, elephants make a comeback
Al Jazeera | 5 September, 2014 | Celeste Hicks |
As poaching pushes the pachyderms to the brink of extinction, the Central African nation offers a lesson in conservation Even after years in Africa, Lorna Labuschagne never tires of the excitement of seeing the continent’s wild animals. But a plane trip over Chad’s Zakouma National Park in late 2013 was a particularly remarkable moment for … Full Story ? |
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| Slayed in Iceland: The commercial hunting and international trade in endangered fin whales
Environmental Investigation Agency | September, 2014 | Environmental Investigation Agency, Whale & Dolphin Conservation & Animal Welfare Institute |
INTRODUCTION: The fin whale is the second largest species on the planet – a giant at more than 20 metres in length but able to swim at speeds in excess of 35km per hour, earning it the nickname ‘greyhound of the sea’. For decades it was the target of industrial-scale commercial whaling operations whose factory fleets decimated whale populations in all … Full Story ? |
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| Can Elephants Survive a Legal Ivory Trade? Debate Is Shifting Against It
National Geographic | 29 August, 2014 | Christina Russo |
It’s one of the more incendiary questions discussed in wildlife conservation circles: Should there be a legal trade in elephant ivory? This debate has been waxing and waning since at least 1989, when the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted to “ban” the international trade in ivory after a ferocious wave of … Full Story ? |
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