Chinese Embassy in Kenya tells its citizens involvement in illegal wildlife...
TRAFFIC January 24, 2014 Nairobi, Kenya, 24th January 2014—China’s Embassy in Nairobi last week hosted an event for Chinese businesses and citizens based in Africa to address the growing issue of...
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US bans commercial ivory trade
PHOTO | AFP KWS officer arranging some of 1,099 pieces of ivory tusks a the port of Mombasa August 21, 2013. The United States clamped down on the domestic trade of elephant ivory Tuesday as part of a...
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SHANGHAI CUSTOMS CRACKS UP LARGEST IVORY SMUGGLING CASE IN ITS IMMIGRATION...
The original article can be found in the following link: http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2014/02-12/5830206.shtml 12/02/2014. Shanghai Customs gather to build the largest haul ever in Shanghai Pudong...
View ArticleAttacking critics does not change the fact that China is the main consumer of...
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Africa Mar 03, 2014 The mudslinging by Chinese officials, blaming western media and by implication the conservation fraternity at large for negative publicity over the...
View ArticlePassing of a giant: death of an elephant
Paula Kahumbu, The Guardian March 8, 2014 Those who collaborate in this suffering by buying, wearing and displaying vanity products made from smuggled ivory should know their true cost and feel deeply...
View ArticlePoaching and illegal wildlife trade threatens tourism and development in Africa
eTN Global Travel Industry News Mar 13, 2014 Panelists convened at an event in Berlin, Germany, on the occasion of ITB – the world’s largest tourism fair – and concurred today that record poaching...
View ArticleAfrica: New Report Commissioned By Born Free Usa Confirms Organized Crime,...
Born Free 21 April 2014 Washington, DC — “Ivory’s Curse: The Militarization and Professionalization of Poaching in Africa” reveals similarity between the illicit networks that enable terrorism,...
View ArticleIvory poaching funds most war and terrorism in Africa
Richard Schiffman, New Scientist 14 May 2014 AT THE headquarters of the Mara Elephant Project, Marc Goss contemplates a jumble of squiggly lines superimposed on a Google Earth map. Each line represents...
View ArticleHuge Haul of Smuggled Ivory Came From Kenya (Cambodia)
By Khy Sovuthy and Simon Henderson, The Cambodia Daily May 23, 2014 The three-ton haul of illegal elephant ivory seized by port officials on May 9 originated in Kenya and was then shipped through...
View ArticleChina bemoans its people’s behavior in Africa—including undergarment ivory...
By Lily Kuo, Quartz July 14, 2014 China is a major economic presence in Africa, injecting billions of dollars in trade and economic assistance to build out the continent’s infrastructure, but that...
View ArticleUganda suspends officials after ton of ivory stolen from vault
Agence France Presse November 18, 2014 Kampala (AFP) – Uganda’s wildlife authority has suspended five top officials after a ton of seized ivory worth over a million dollars vanished from government...
View ArticleThe difficulties of measuring elephant tusk and rhino horn exports
Ben Hamilton, The Guardian 9 December 2014 In mid-November, Interpol announced a list of nine wanted men involved with poaching and wildlife trade. One of these men was the alleged “ringleader of an...
View ArticleAsia’s World City: epicentre of the ivory trade
Conservationist Richard Bonham has been combating the ivory trade in Kenya for 40 years. Now the ‘white Maasai’ is shining a light on Hong Kong’s dirty little secret, writes John Vidal Most tourists...
View ArticleThe ivory trade kills people too
Aaron Hall and Andrea Crosta, Al Jazeera January 24, 2015 If you buy ivory, you kill people. This is the new reality in an illicit trade responsible for large-scale human exploitation, government...
View ArticleAfrican Nations Call On the World to Help Them Save African Elephants
Montreux, 29 June 2016: The African Elephant Coalition (AEC), comprising 29 African countries, are calling on the world to join them in saving elephants. The Montreux Manifesto, agreed at a meeting of...
View ArticleNotorious Kenyan Ivory Trafficker Jailed for 20 Years and Fined USD 200,000
Nairobi, 22 July 2016: Today a Mombasa Law Court pronounced judgement in a landmark ruling of Feisal Mohamed Ali and five others. Feisal Mohamed Ali was found guilty of illegal possession of ivory...
View ArticleCELEBRATING WORLD ELEPHANT DAY IN SAMBURU WITH KENYAN CHILDREN
Nairobi, 09 August 2016: This week, WildlifeDirect is celebrating World Lion Day and World Elephant Day by taking 100 children to Samburu National Reserve for a 3 day camping expedition from 12th -14th...
View ArticleTracking Technology Deployed to Help Keep Giant Tusker from Crops
Nairobi September 16, 2016: One of Kenya’s largest tuskers has been fitted with a GPS tracking collar to allow Kenya Wildlife Service and their non-governmental partners to prevent him from raiding...
View ArticleWildlifeDirect Expresses dismay at decision to route SGR through Nairobi...
Nairobi-January 6, 2017: WildlifeDirect express deep dismay at the decision by the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) to grant approval for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) to pass...
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