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“A
group of nine elephants, including three young calves, have been successfully
darted and tranquilised and are en route from Phirilongwe, just south of Lake
Malawi to Majete Wildlife Reserve,” Jason Bell-Leask, IFAW Director Southern Read more »
The
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) has partnered with the government
of Malawi to rescue animals and people from fierce
human-elephant conflict in the Phirilongwe area, just south of Lake Malawi.
“Some elep Read more »
The operation, which involved Kenya Wildlife
Service (KWS) rangers, Namunyak Wildlife Conservation Trust (NWCT) scouts, and
the local administration, began with the arrest of two Kenyan Somali poachers
and one from the local community. An estimate Read more »
Kenya
Wildlife Service (KWS) rangers arrested two suspected poachers and one middleman
from their hideout in the park, and recovered two AK-47 rifles and 38 rounds of
ammunition. The middleman had already sold off the tusks to other dealers in the Read more »
Both China and
Japan have been approved as trading
partners for this ivory and are known to be among the world’s largest illegal
ivory markets. The International Fund for Animal Welfare’s (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) Elephants Program D Read more »
The 57th
session of the Standing Committee for the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species (CITES) ruled just months ago that China was fit to become a trading partner for the
ivory, while Japan was previously approved. Both
natio Read more »
