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

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Corrupt officials to blame for illegal ivory trade, says Cites

Article Sipho Kings - 11 Jul 2016

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

Legal ivory trade led to sharp rise in poaching

Article Sipho Kings - 17 Jun 2016

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

Morgan’s Somalia trek a sign of hope

Africa Staff Reporter - 23 Mar 2016

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

Tanzania’s elephants under siege

Africa Staff Reporter - 4 Jun 2015

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

Target the traders in ivory war

Africa Staff Reporter - 11 Dec 2014

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

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Wildlife devastation in South Sudan war ‘alarming’

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Nov 2014

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

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Misappropriation of ivory funds threatens rhino horn sale

Article Sipho Kings - 28 Oct 2014

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

Mozambique elephants obliterated

Africa Estacios Valoi - 2 Oct 2014

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

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UN targets wildlife traders in Africa sanctions

Africa Staff Reporter - 31 Jan 2014

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

One-fifth of Africa’s elephants could be killed this decade

Article Sipho Kings - 4 Dec 2013

25 000 elephants have been killed last year across Africa, and the numbers will grow, a continental conference on poaching has heard.

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