Lessons The Rhino Trade Lobby Cannot Ignore

SA Breaking News | 10 April, 2014 | Sharon Van Wyk

Ignoring the hard lessons learned by the global conservation community in its battle against ivory poaching will effectively sign a death warrant for Africa’s rhinos. This according to experts at this year’s international conference organised by Outraged South African Citizens… Full Story ?

Green Action News | 11 April, 2014 | Adam Cruise

In the wake of France, the USA, China, Philippines, Chad and Ghana, Belgium became the latest country to destroy its stockpile of ivory. On Wednesday at the Palais des Colonies near Brussels the country crushed 1.5 tons that had been confiscated by… Full Story ?

SW Radio Africa | 15 April, 2014 | Alex Bell

The fallout over an ‘illegal’ land claim in the Hwange National Park has seen one of the country’s top elephant protectors stepping aside and shutting down a key elephant conservation project. The Zimbabwe ‘Presidential Elephant Conservation Project’ was founded and has been run… Full Story ?

Monga Bay | 2 April, 2014 | Jeremy Hance

At a time when Africa’s elephants are facing a relentless poaching crisis—to the tune of over 20,000 dead every year—one community has managed to safeguard their elephants in the most unlikely of places: Mali. In a country that has suffered… Full Story ?

| 10 April, 2014 |

The taste of ‘success’ in our world gone mad is measured in dollars and francs and rupees and yen. Our desire to consume any and everything of perceivable value – to extract every precious stone, every ounce of metal, every… Full Story ?

All Africa | 8 April, 2014 | Nomalanga Moyo

The United States has suspended imports of sport-hunted elephant trophies from Zimbabwe citing questionable management practices and a lack of effective law enforcement. The ban follows a massive ecological disaster at Hwange National Park last year which saw hundreds of… Full Story ?