Charges have been dropped against North West residents found with vast quantities of endangered species
There is a significant elephant-poaching problem in northern Botswana that has likely been going on for over a year
Prolific poacher David Berry Jr will be forced to watch the animated movie at least once a month during his year-long jail term
As leaders meet in London to discuss how to combat the illegal wildlife trade, maybe they should learn some lessons from southern Africa
China is the biggest market for ivory yet Chinese business people are funding the war on poaching
Many individuals continue to poach to improve their incomes, rather than just make ends meet
Abalone poaching in Cape Town succeeds because there is a motivated offender, a suitable target and a lack of security
France, SA and Mozambique will give trawlers in the Mozambique Channel a harder time, but can they control the $23bn a year industry?
The RhODIS database is helping to convict poachers using DNA evidence from rhino horns, carcasses and live specimens
The thinking behind the move was widely accepted at the time, and ‘has only been proved wrong in hindsight’ – researchers
The Botswana government has been accused of valuing wildlife more than human life, as it ups the ante against illegal hunters in the region.
There is a culture among wealthy people to own tiger parts in order to mount heads and decorate living rooms with rugs made from their pelts.
The vessel has looted millions of rands’ worth of fish in a decade-long onslaught on the ocean.
Lifting ivory and rhino horn trade bans could translate to an economic turnaround for Africa, where the black market for animal products is thriving.
The world’s wildlife population has decreased by 52% in the 43 years since 1971 because of human industry, according to the Living Planet Index.
Behind the Cape’s illicit perlemoen trade are whole communities that rely on the income the illegal abalone fishers bring in.
Intelligence chiefs have red-flagged wildlife poaching as a security risk, saying proceeds from the crime are being used to fund terror groups.
A report has shown that political and military elites are seizing protected areas, putting Zimbabwe at risk of becoming a front for ivory poaching.
A Nairobi ivory bust – China’s first wildlife crime arrest – was part of a month-long, international anti-trafficking operation.
A rhino called Thandi that survived an attack by poachers in the Eastern Cape has fallen pregnant, says the Kariega Game Reserve.
25 000 elephants have been killed last year across Africa, and the numbers will grow, a continental conference on poaching has heard.
Members of an indigenous Zulu church called Shembe have agreed to wear fake leopard skins, in a bid to preserve South Africa’s leopard population.
Conservationists say the Zimbabwe government is refusing to look into allegations of the alleged involvement of senior officials.
Poachers have mixed cyanide with salt to quietly take down elephants in the north of Zimbabwe.
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa and Mozambique’s tourism minister will take action to combat rhino poaching, says her department.
A Kruger National Park ranger has been shot and wounded while attempting to apprehend suspected poachers.
Poaching in protected wildlife areas has been on the rise in the Central African Republic since the country was plunged into turmoil, say campaigners.
Poachers killed at least 86 elephants in Chad last week, say conservation groups, warning that elephants in Central Africa risked being wiped out.
Urgent steps will have to be taken after a report at Cites sheds light on the dramatic rise in elephant poaching across Africa.
With 2013 set to break new records in rhino poaching, environmental ministers will meet in Bangkok to find a solution.
Zambia has banned the hunting wild cats because it sees more value in game viewing tourism than blood sport, said the country’s tourism minister.
A suspected rhino poacher has been shot dead in the Kruger National Park, while two others have been arrested for killing a mother and her calf.