Elephant Poaching

Science should lead the way in society’s efforts to protect habitats, wildlife and people’s livelihoods

One of the world’s biggest markets for African ivory, China announced that it would outlaw all domestic trade and processing by 2017

High cost to conserve elephants from poachers is compensated by tourism income.

The most important conservation meeting in a generation will see debates on the future of more than 500 species.

Conservationists worry that ivory poaching is moving through Zambia towards Botswana’s Okavanga Delta, location of the world’s largest elephant herds.

Research shows that legal sale of ivory increased smuggling by 71%.

The thinking behind the move was widely accepted at the time, and ‘has only been proved wrong in hindsight’ – researchers

Joy as thirtysomething pachyderm makes three-week journey from Kenya.

The Botswana government has been accused of valuing wildlife more than human life, as it ups the ante against illegal hunters in the region.

Poaching linked to crime syndicates has seen 85 000 tuskers being slaughtered in five years.

It is not only armed insurgent and rebel groups that fuel the slaughter of elephants, it is also greed.

Slaughtered for tusks and meat, endangered wildlife numbers have taken a huge knock since soldiers and rebels began fighting in December.

900 rhino poached so far this year, with 600 of those being poached in the Kruger National Park.

A year-long investigation has exposed official complicity in slaughter for the ivory trade.

New UN resolutions bring sanctions against illegal wildlife and resource traders who support armed groups committing social atrocities in Africa.