Lessons from fighting terrorism are saving elephants in Kenya

Cage & Aviary Birds

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Operation Easter Warns Public To Be Vigilant For Illegal Egg Theft

Apr 24, 2024

THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE Crime Unit (NWCU) has launched this year's Operation Easter in a bid to tackle wild bird egg and chick theft. Operation Easter is a national enforcement campaign to protect nesting wild birds. Taking wild bird eggs is illegal, y

Farmer's Weekly

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Role Of Organised Crime In Rhino-horn Trafficking

Oct 7, 2022

Conservationists have expressed their concern about the alarming involvement of international organised crime networks in the trafficking of rhino horn. They were speaking during a World Rhino Day 2022 webinar hosted by the World Wide Fund for Nature

MoneyWeek

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The Way We Live Now: Gamekeepers Turned Poachers Face Lie-detector Tests

May 28, 2021

Staff at the Kruger National Park in South Africa are to face lie detector tests amid fears poaching gangs have “infiltrated the ranger force”, says Jane Flanagan in The Times. The park has lost two thirds of its herd to poachers over the last ten ye

Farmer's Weekly

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‘Official Rhino Poaching Numbers Could Be Misleading’

Feb 17, 2020

The number of rhino poached should be considered in relation to the number of live animals remaining, because without this information, it is hard to evaluate the full picture of the current status of South Africa’s rhino population. This was the res

Travel Africa

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Guardians of BIODIVERSITY

Feb 7, 2024

DR EKWOGE ABWE, PRINCE WILLIAM AWARD FOR CONSERVATION WINNER 2023 We're in awe of people like Dr Ekwoge Abwe, the worthy winner of 2023's Prince William Award for Conservation in Africa, which honours a lifetime's service and dedication to conservati

Shooting Times & Country

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BASC Hits Back Over RSPB Bid To Halt Release Of Birds

Aug 17, 2022

Defra has rebuffed an RSPB effort to use the avian influenza outbreak to push forward an anti-shooting agenda. The disease has cut a swathe through wild bird populations, hitting sea birds particularly hard. In a statement, the RSPB said it was “call

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‘Rhino Poaching Respite Might Be Short-lived’

Sep 7, 2020

The incidences of rhino poaching in South Africa dropped 53% during the first six months of the year, with 166 animals killed for their horns compared to 316 in the corresponding period in 2019. However, since the easing of lockdown restrictions to c

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Rhino Poaching In KZN ‘A Cause For Concern’

Aug 11, 2023

According to figures recently released by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment (DFFE), 231 rhinos were poached in South Africa between January and June 2023. Compared to the same period in 2022, the total number of rhino poached show

The Independent

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Poachers, Corruption And Cash: Inside South Africa’s New Rhino Crisis

Jun 18, 2021

Poachers masquerading as rangers, magistrates allegedly taking bribes from kingpins and lenient sentences handed out to ruthless criminals - this is the current state of South Africa’s rhino crisis, according to campaigners. Strict limits on travel d

Farmer's Weekly

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Using Natural Enemies To Combat Fall Armyworm

May 7, 2021

Africa loses up to 18 million tons of maize annually, valued at US$4,6 billion (about R65,6 billion) to fall armyworm (FAW) infestations, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. However, researchers at the Internatio

Cage & Aviary Birds

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DEFRA Outlines ‘Limited’ Actions To Stem Bird Flu

Aug 31, 2022

IN RESPONSE TO the deaths from bird flu of thousands of seabirds on the Farne Islands and Coquet Island off the Northumberland coast and along the north Norfolk coast this summer, the UK government has outlined how it is tackling the current outbreak

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New Elephant Birth Control Method Implemented

Sep 1, 2023

Savanna elephants have been assessed as endangered on the African continent and additional threats and losses due to human-elephant conflict could further exacerbate the species’ decline. In order to prevent conflict between humans and elephants in S