Elephant Poaching

Elephants in the room

Article Maxwell Gomera & Neville Ash - 30 Aug 2019

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

China’s ban on domestic ivory sales comes into force

Article bogdan TagDiv - 1 Jan 2018

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

Tourism in Africa loses R343-million per year through elephant poaching

Article Sipho Kings - 7 Nov 2016

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

Rhino, elephant, lion fates to be decided at Cites

Article Sipho Kings - 26 Sep 2016

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

Threat to Africa’s elephants a headache for CoP17

Article bogdan TagDiv - 23 Sep 2016

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

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 bogdan TagDiv - 23 Mar 2016

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

Tanzania’s elephants under siege

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 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 bogdan TagDiv - 11 Dec 2014

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

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.

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.

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