Tag: poachers
Botswana says yes again to Elephant Hunting
Botswana's Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, Conservation, and Tourism announced the ban overturn on Elephant Hunting in a Facebook statement and said the decision had come after a lengthy consultation ... Read More
African Game Rangers: Key conservation tourism partners in stress
Wildlife is the leading tourist attraction and source of tourist revenue in Africa other than rich historical and cultural heritage the continent has been endowed with. Wildlife photographic safaris attract ... Read More
Kenya’s Tourism Secretary: More visitors and fewer dead elephants
Last year, Kenyan Cabinet Secretary of Tourism Najib Balala met his goal of welcoming over two million visitors to Kenya during his term in office and was sure to report ... Read More
Botswana proposes banning hunting and trade as elephant population declines
The results of the recent and most extensive elephant population survey of Botswana estimates the country’s population at 126,000 elephants, a further decline from 131,600 reported in 2014. The report ... Read More
Suspicious baggage leads to arrest of Vietnam poachers on Thailand trips
New findings from a three-month investigation reveal professional gangs were dispatched across Thailand’s borders to target the Kingdom’s wild tigers. Freeland congratulates Thai authorities for making this discovery and arresting ... Read More
A bat which looks like actor Lance Bass in Greater Mekong Region
A bat which looks like singer/actor Lance Bass, a gibbon named for Luke Skywalker, and a toad which seems to have come from Lord of the Rings “Middle Earth," are ... Read More
Revenge killings of elephant shock Kenya
(eTN) - News emerged from conservation sources in Nairobi that members of a gang of poachers, allegedly led by one Adan Kanjur, inflicted cruel death on a family of 5 ... Read More
Akagera park rangers killed by poachers
(eTN) - The menace of poaching has finally reached Rwanda in its worst form, when reports reached early this week that two game wardens in the Akagera National Park were ... Read More
Nyungwe poachers turn game keepers
A group of former poachers from the Read More
More ivory nabbed, suspects arrested in Eastern Africa
Information received indicates that in recent weeks over one and a half tons of ivory has been confiscated and recovered from poachers, smugglers and individuals found with it, across Eastern ... Read More
Former poachers and militants promote tourism in Assam
Manas National Park (Assam) - Having realised the futility of violence, many individuals who were into poaching or worked as militant cadres, are now saving wildlife and promoting tourism in ... Read More