A booming black market in African ivory linked to Asian crime syndicates may scupper efforts by Zambia and Tanzania to hold a one-off sale of tusks.
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/ 17 January 2010
Researchers have found that more than 14 000 products made from the tusks and other body parts of elephants were seized in 2009.
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/ 6 November 2009
Tour operators accused of torturing wild elephants,
reports Yolandi Groenewald.
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/ 10 September 2009
A drought in Kenya is so bad that it is even felling the giants of the animal kingdom — the country’s famed elephants.
Scientists have used a revolutionary genetic technique to pinpoint the area of Africa where smugglers are slaughtering elephants.
Malawi is teaming up with an animal welfare group to move 60 elephants from a densely populated area, where at least 10 people have been killed.
Growing pressure from poaching and human encroachment has driven hundreds of elephants to migrate across Zimbabwe’s borders, said conservationists.
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/ 23 February 2009
Thousands of elephant fans have registered on an online site promising live footage of the first birth of an elephant in Belgium.
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/ 6 November 2008
Approximately 47 tonnes of stockpiled ivory on auction fetched about ,7-million for South Africa’s conservation efforts, says SA National Parks.
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/ 17 October 2008
An elephant expert whose house on the US Gulf Coast was destroyed by Hurricane Ike is putting his collection back together — one tooth at a time.
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.
A storm of public protest has erupted over Namibian authorities’ decision to allow six Kunene region elephant bulls to be shot as trophies.