China 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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