Hundreds of tusks intercepted en route to Cambodia

Malaysian authorities say they have seized hundreds of African elephant tusks worth about $1.3-million that were being shipped from Kenya to Cambodia.

Two plead guilty to illegally possessing 700kg of ivory

Two men pleaded guilty in a Kenyan court on Monday to illegally possessing 700kg of elephant tusks.

Africa in crackdown on wildlife crime

A tonne of ivory items and 57 suspects were netted in a four-month operation against wildlife crime, the Kenya Wildlife Service said Monday.

Vietnam embassy in rhino row

Investigators say conservation officials lack the capacity to check if the right rhino has been shot.

Over $6m raised in SA ivory auction

Approximately 47 tonnes of stockpiled ivory on auction fetched about $6,7-million for South Africa's conservation efforts, says SA National Parks.

Ivory stockpile confusion

It is thought that smugglers are able to use gaps in data on countries' official ivory stockpiles to sell their own illegal ivory off.

SA to sell 50 tons of stockpiled ivory

SA will sell 51 tons of stockpiled ivory on November 6 in a one-off sale to China and Japan, the government said on Wednesday.

Microchips to the rhinos' rescue

All rhinoceros horns in South Africa are to be microchipped in an attempt to curb the "dramatic" increase in the illegal trade of rhino horns.

Ivory poachers decimate DRC elephant population

Poachers in the DRC have killed a fifth of the elephants in Africa's oldest national park this year, the park's director said on Friday.

Namibia bans ivory trade

Namibia will impose a ban on all trade in "worked ivory" from next month in a bid to abide by international regulations on endangered species.

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