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by Tristan MCCONNELL Agence France-Presse NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — The price of ivory has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the last three years, according to research conducted in China and published Wednesday by the conservation group Save the Elephants. At its peak in 2014 the estimated wholesale price for raw ivory stood at $2,100 (1,900 euros) per kilogram on the Chinese black market, but by early 2017 the price had fallen to $730 per kilogram, […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Poachers are killing elephants for their ivory at an alarming rate in the central African nation of Gabon, leading to a loss of 80 percent of the population in the last decade. Some 25,000 elephants have been slaughtered in Minkebe National Park, an area that had been considered a sanctuary, said the report in the journal Current Biology. “Because Gabon is thought to hold the largest remaining population of forest elephants, […]
ARGENTINA (AFP) — Asian elephants Pupi (R) and Kuki are pictured at Buenos Aires zoo on November 24, 2016. After the unprecedented case of Sandra the orangutan whose rights were recognized by a court, now three elephants from the Buenos Aires’ Zoo will have their own lawyers sponsored by an NGO for alleged ‘animal abuse’.
PARIS, France (AFP) — Even without poachers, Central Africa’s forest elephants would need almost a century to get their numbers back up to 2002 levels, said a study Wednesday that pried into the elusive creatures’ slow-breeding ways. The population had been decimated by illegal hunting, with an estimated 65 percent decline between 2002 and 2013, said researchers. Roaming the tropical forests of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon and Democratic Republic of Congo, the tusker sub-species […]
https://youtu.be/L4xrAEhFgko Port Dickson, Malaysia – 14 April 2016 – AFP — Malaysia on Thursday destroyed 9.5 tonnes of elephant ivory it had seized over the years, which authorities hope will help deter smugglers who have long used the country as a trans-shipment point. The huge pile of African elephant tusks, estimated to be worth $20 million, was first fed into in an industrial crusher to be pulverised, and then incinerated in a giant furnace in […]
Suspected poachers have used cyanide to kill 23 elephants in Zimbabwe’s Hwange national park, raising the death toll there and in the northern part of the country to 60 since late September, officials said on Thursday (October 29). Hwange national park in western Zimbabwe currently hosts 53,000 elephants, twice the park’s carrying capacity. Park rangers recovered most of the tusks after the 23 elephants were killed with the deadly poison last Friday but poachers got […]
WITH wildlife and forest crimes on the rise, yielding enormous profits for criminal networks, high-level officials from the United Nations (UN) have warned that they fuel violence, corrupt supply chains and undermine the rule of law. Speaking at a major anti-crime meeting in Doha, Qatar, co-hosted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the […]
