poaching

With bows and spears, Indigenous ‘warriors’ defend the Amazon

By Hervé BAR Agence France-Presse JAVARI, Brazil (AFP) -- In a remote pocket of the Brazilian Amazon under siege from…

S.African rhino returns to wild after brutal attack

BELA BELA, South Africa (AFP) - A 10-year-old rhino that had its horn brutally hacked off returned to the wild…

Thai Supreme Court jails tycoon over wildlife poaching

BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) - A Thai tycoon accused of poaching wildlife in a national park lost his final appeal Wednesday,…

In an African forest, a fight to save the endangered pangolin

by Camille LAFFONT Pictures by FLORENT VERGNES Agence France-Presse DZANGA-SANGHA NATIONAL PARK, Central African Republic (AFP) — The prehistoric shape is…

S.Africa says rhino poaching down 23 percent last year

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) -- South Africa recorded a 23 percent drop in the number of rhinos killed by poachers…

DENR Sec. Cimatu, ipinag-utos ang mahigpit na pagbabantay laban sa poaching

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) -- Ipinag-utos ni Department of Environment Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu ang mas mahigpit na…

Morocco fights to save Barbary macaque

Morocco's Barbary macaque monkey is facing a battle for survival as poaching, tourists feeding them and loss of the species'…

Burning ivory, waging war: world battles poaching in 2016

As 2016 draws to an end, Africa's elephants and rhinos are counting the cost of a poaching crisis that has…

New orchid species found in Philippine forest guerrilla zone

MANILA, Philippines (AFP) -- Five new orchid species have been discovered in remote Philippine mountains, protected from poaching because of…

UN conference in Doha stresses urgent need to combat wildlife crime

WITH wildlife and forest crimes on the rise, yielding enormous profits for criminal networks, high-level officials from the United Nations…

Poaching threatens African elephants

African elephants at risk of extinction after more than 20,000 African elephants killed for their ivory in 2013, a U.N.-linked…

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