Alex Dymoke African leaders to gather in Kenya to tackle elephant poaching crisis
In the past three years, 100,000 elephants have been killed in Africa to supply ivory to illegal markets
In the past three years, 100,000 elephants have been killed in Africa to supply ivory to illegal markets
The decision not to give the animal the most protected status is ‘fatal’, says the Head of Gabon’s National Park Agency Lee White
The three organisations will work together with African governments to strengthen criminal justice systems in order to clamp down on wildlife crime
The latest CITES meeting on 24 September in Johannesburg will be one of the most critical meetings in the Convention’s 43 year history
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On World Elephant Day, the Ivory Coast football star and UN Environment Ambassador calls people to join the Wild for Life Campaign to help end wildlife crime pushing species to the brink of extinction
President Ali Bongo of Gabon launches plan to reduce human-elephant conflict as part of the Pan-African Giants Club
Fulfilling pledges promised at the Giants Club Summit, conservationists canvas innovative legal strategies to tackle wildlife crime
Fulfilling pledges promised at the Giants Club Summit, conservationists work with the UN and Ugandan officials to develop legal guidelines to strengthen poaching prosecutions
The 100 black and white rhinos, that will be relocated from South Africa to Botswana, were pledged to match the 100 planes at the Race for Rhinos event, hosted by Botswana Tourism on the Makgadikgadi Pans
Six months ago, Space for Giants started work organising the Giants Club Summit, held at the end of April at the Mount Kenya Safari Club. President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya hosted the Africa-led event, along with fellow Giants Club members President Ali Bongo of Gabon, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, and senior representatives of President Ian Khama of Botswana.
Over 200 people attended the Summit in Laikipia, Kenya, which raised over $5 million dollars in support of Giants Club's iniatives across Africa
Paul and Elizabeth Njoroge's farm in central Kenya is a fertile five acres on a steep slope where crops flourish enough that the family should be relatively wealthy.
Countries in Africa where the illegal ivory trade is rampant are coming together to retaliate. In this special collection of images, celebrated photographer Johnnie Shand Kydd chronicles the inaugural events of this initiative
Hanako has lived alone in the Inokashira Park Zoo in Tokyo since 1954
They claim the sales would allow the continuation of important conservation work
The Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association (KWCA) working in partnership with the Conservation Alliance of Kenya (CAK) held a meeting of conservationists and key influencers in Nairobi last month to forge a social contract, calling on communities living with wildlife to reconnect with and work towards the conservation of Kenya’s natural heritage.
Around 30,000 elephants are killed every year across Africa, many of them feeding the demand for ivory in Asia
Over 100 tonnes of illegally poached ivory will be reduced to ash as the Kenyan government signals its commitment to combating the illegal wildlife trade by burning its entire ivory stockpile