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Do or die – deciding the pangolin’s fate at CoP17
September 28th 2016 will be remembered by many delegates attending CITES CoP17 as a bitter-sweet...
Exposed: The Dirty Secrets of Japan’s Illegal Ivory Trade
Cape Town - New evidence of Japan’s failure to control illegal ivory trading at a time when...
Op-Ed: Namibia ducks elephant census
Photo: Namibian elephants (Eric Bauer via Flickr) The results of the most comprehensive survey of...
Meet Charlie Elephant
We first spotted Charlie from about 700 foot up over the arid Mozambique savannah...
The Battle over Ivory
The future of Africa’s elephants may be decided in Johannesburg at the end of this month. When...
What can we expect from SA at CoP 17?
As the countdown begins to the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP17) for CITES,...
Kruger animals becoming meat for starving neighbours
This is a story about too much hippo poo in the Kruger National Park, hungry neighbours and rain...
SA told to end canned lion hunting
© iafrica.com A motion to terminate the hunting and breeding of captive lions and other predators...
Poachers kill 26 elephants in Chobe National Park
At least 26 elephants, their faces hacked off and their tusks removed, lay in congealing blood on...
Counting Africa’s beleaguered elephants: Massive two-year census finds alarming declines
The largest wildlife survey ever taken has delivered alarming data for the ongoing survival of...
SA White Shark Numbers Plummet
SA white sharks numbers dropping A proper review of deterrents is needed to keep the species...
Sustainable utilisation of wildlife not so sustainable
A comprehensive new review of the threats facing global biodiversity indicates that a popular...
World Elephant Day sees worldwide call to burn ivory stockpiles
Hard to image that presently fewer than half a million elephants are left in Africa. This is the...
Why burn Ivory?
The South African government refuses to destroy its ivory stockpile unlike the 25 other countries...
Knysna Elephant Park will be prosecuted
Knysna Elephant Park owners will face charges for animal cruelty despite an initial decision to...
Poaching upsurge pushes pangolin closer to extinction
Despite the arrests and long-term sentences passed on several Zimbabwean pangolin capturers,...
A look at Nambia’s rhino horn syndicates
It is not hard to spot the successful rhino poachers in Okahao: at a time when everyone else in...
How many elephants are there?
After pangolins, elephants are the most poached animals in Africa. But to get to grips with the...