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Rhino poaching toll continues to grow

02/05/2013 Martin Conservation, South Africa, Wildlife

With yesterday’s @savetherhino #RhinoMayDay still such a fresh memory South Africa has yet again reminded us why action is needed with the news that the number of rhinos being poached continues to rise. click here for the Southafrica.info report

Ranger corruption ‘impeding global fight against poaching’

02/05/2013 Martin Conservation, Tanzania, Wildlife

The battle against poaching is being made even harder by corruption amongst those employed to fight it as this article from the UK’s Guardian newspaper explains. Click here to read the full article

Maasai fury as plan to lure Arabian Gulf tourists threatens their ancestral land

02/05/2013 Martin Conservation, Tanzania, Wildlife

A battle has erupted in Tanzania over the future of 30,000 Maasai people who claim the expansion of a big-game hunting reserve for foreigners will lead to their eviction from ancestral lands. Tanzania’s ministry of tourism announced this week that it will set aside 1,500 square kilometres bordering the Serengeti national park for a “wildlife corridor”. The Maasai will as[…]

U.N. Recognises Wildlife Trafficking as “Serious Crime”

30/04/2013 Martin Conservation, Wildlife

WASHINGTON, Apr 29 2013 (IPS) – Environment groups are applauding a new United Nations decision to officially characterise international wildlife and timber trafficking as a serious organised crime, in a move that advocates say will finally give international law enforcement officials the tools necessary to counter spiking rates of poaching. click here to read the full article from Inter Press Service[…]

Kenya: Elephants Risk Extinction Due to Poaching

28/04/2013 Martin Conservation, Kenya, Wildlife

#elephantpoaching Dr. Ian Douglas-Hamilton is the founder of Save the Elephants, an organisation which protects the endangered animals. He was interviewed by Kiss TV’s John Sibi-Okumu. The interview was transcribed by Star writer Agatha Ngotho. click here to read the article

South Africa – Rhino Poaching update

26/04/2013 Jethro Conservation, South Africa, Wildlife

#rhinopoaching This press release from SA Government highlights the plight of the country’s rhino PRESS RELEASE The number of rhino poached for their horn in South Africa since the beginning of the year has increased to 249. The Kruger National Park remains the hardest hit, with the number of rhino poached since last week increasing from 167 to 180. At[…]

Kenya asks the Chinese to help put the brakes on poaching

26/04/2013 Jethro Conservation, Kenya, Tanzania, Wildlife

It’s quite a clever move really, and completely logical. Kenya tourism officials have asked the Chinese to help put the brakes on poaching. In recent months the Chinese have shown a growing interest in East Africa’s wildlife. Central China Television (CCTV) (great acronym!) has been showing live coverage of the wildebeest migration from the Serengeti and Kenya sees the Chinese,[…]

Kenya: Mr President, It’s Going to Take More Than Speeches to Save Elephants

24/04/2013 Martin Conservation, Kenya, Wildlife

This is a terrific article from Paula that perfectly illustrates the frustrations felt by all those working to stop the poaching of Afrca’s wildlife. Environmentalist PAULA KAHUMBU narrates her experiences when she attended the hearing of two ivory cases in Makadara court, Nairobi, on April 19 Paula Kahumbu is the Executive Director of WildlifeDirect, a conservation organisation that is campaigning[…]

Pressure growing in Kenya for tougher anti-poaching laws

22/04/2013 Martin Conservation, Kenya, Wildlife

Momentum is gathering in Kenya for some serious steps to combat poaching. In recent days both conservationists and local tour operators have backed calls for much tougher laws and penalties for those infringing them. Kenya lost 74 elephants to poaching from January to March this year, according to Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS). In all of 2012, poachers killed 384 elephants,[…]