On the back of the illegal rhino horn trade, Asian suppliers have begun sourcing a replacement for tigers, namely lions or rather their bones.
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/ 19 February 2012
Justice Minister Jeff Radebe says government is intensifying efforts to improve border management to deal with cross-border crime and poaching.
Eight dehorned rhino carcasses have been discovered in the Kruger National Park during routine patrols in the Pretoriuskop and Sabie areas.
The African Parks Network reintroduced over 2 500 animals to the Majete Wildlife Reserve after poachers almost wiped out the animal population.
Two senior Free State wildlife officials have come under scrutiny for their close relationship with the hunting industry.
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/ 23 November 2010
A suspected poacher was shot and killed by rangers in the Kruger National Park, SA National Parks said on Monday.
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/ 1 November 2010
Kenyan game rangers shoot dead three people suspected of killing five elephants for ivory.
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/ 23 October 2009
The Kruger National Park wants to use military patrols to step up the fight against poaching, its chief executive said on Friday.
An aid official in the Central African Republic expressed horror on Tuesday at weekend clashes over cattle poaching that left at least 22 people dead.
Conservation officials believe the arrests have broken the back of illegal rhino poaching in South Africa.
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/ 17 February 2009
Move over poachers. Whale watching in the Eastern Cape has taken over as the hot new eco-crime.
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/ 19 November 2008
Vietnam said on Wednesday it would recall one of its diplomats from SA after she was filmed conducting an illegal transaction in rhinoceros horn.
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/ 17 November 2008
A tonne of ivory items and 57 suspects were netted in a four-month operation against wildlife crime, the Kenya Wildlife Service said Monday.
SA rhino populations are under threat from poachers, with KZN game parks reporting that at least 12 White Rhino have been killed since January.
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/ 1 September 2008
Minister of Environmental Affairs Marthinus van Schalkwyk says his department is planning ”further steps” to stem the poaching of marine resources.
All rhinoceros horns in South Africa are to be microchipped in an attempt to curb the ”dramatic” increase in the illegal trade of rhino horns.
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.
Wildlife traffickers are laundering hunting permits to smuggle rhinoceros horns to the Far East for use in medicinal potions.
South African animal rights activists reacted furiously on Wednesday after a decision to allow China to import ivory from the region.