11 More Elephants Slaughtered in Southeast
“Game rangers in Southeast Cameroon, July 14, 2008, confiscated 22 ivory tusks and 11 elephant tails.” - allAfrica.com
Rwanda: Behind Elephant Poaching in Virunga
“Conservationists and animal rights activists, have raised concern over the decision to approve China, as a buyer for a one-off sale of elephant ivory is likely to increase poaching and illegal ivory trade in Africa.” - allAfrica.com
Internet Auctions Might Support Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
“Sale of most elephant ivory is banned by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES); even the sale of ivory from culled or naturally deceased animals is strictly regulated. Since 1973, most sale of elephant ivory has been prohibited in the United States under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, under which Asian elephants are listed as endangered and African elephants as threatened.” - allAfrica.com
Local Communities Should Benefit From Their Natural Resources
“In an interview with The Post, Somé said it is not advisable to kill elephants as observed by some people, who argue that the elephant population is getting bigger across African. The WWF official thinks that local communities should rather benefit from their natural resources, which will have a positive spill-over on the national regional levels.” - allAfrica.com
Villagers Plagued By Elephants Again
“Residents at Onanke village in the Oshikoto Region are complaining about a herd of elephants that have destroyed their crops.” - allAfrica.com
Kenya: Elephants to Be Tracked Using New Device
“Modern technology may soon come to the aid of farmers living under the constant threat of elephants from Mount Kenya forest.” - allAfrica.com
Macomia Peasants Complain of Drought And Elephants
“A Macomia resident named Diogo Rachid told Guebuza that many beneficiaries of the local initiative fund were peasant farmers whose only source of income was to cultivate their fields, which had been devastated by drought and by elephants.” - allAfrica.com
Namibia: Man Killed By Elephant
“A man was killed by an elephant during a standoff between a herd of elephants and villagers at Omuntele in the North on Thursday.” - allAfrica.com
Elephant Attack Victim Missing Body Parts
“Elephant Attack Victim Missing Body Parts”- allAfrica.com
Stopping Elephant Poaching in Southeast Cameroon
“Game rangers in Yokadouma, East Province of Cameroon, recently confiscated 13 elephant tusks and made some arrests.The tusks were tucked away in a timber truck.” - allAfrica.com
Wildlife Corridor Project Gets a Boost
“The building of a corridor meant to ease the movement of elephants around Mount Kenya is set to start by the end of the month.” - allAfrica.com
Mokolodi Elephants Kill Two
“Two Sri Lankans were killed by elephants at the Mokolodi Nature Reserve on Tuesday. The two were elephant handlers working for the Mokolodi/Serendib Elephant Project.” - allAfrica.com
Ingenious Ways to Stop Amboseli Jumbo Menace
“For ages, marauding elephants of Amboseli have given farmers sleepless nights and scientists have been testing ways of reducing the level of elephant crop damage and the threat to human life in the area. The human wildlife conflict that has persisted for years in Amboseli has left farmers reeling in losses of crops and even lives.” - allAfrica.com
Continent’s Plan to Save the Elephant
“Seventeen African countries, including Kenya, have signed a document for the establishment of a coalition to save the elephant.” - allAfrica.com
Elephant Dealers in Court
“Three dealers in protected wildlife species have been arrested in Mamfe, Manyu Division in the South West Province and are to appear in the Court of First Instance in Mamfe on January 30, 2008 on charges stipulated under the 1994 wildlife law. The dealers were caught trying to sell some parts of elephants including 14 elephant tails, 4 elephant tusks and an elephant tooth. The 14 elephant tails simply mean 14 elephant killed through illegal hunting and related trade. It is difficult to estimate how many hundreds of elephants could have been killed by their trading activities throughout the country.” - allAfrica.com
Hopes of Bumper Harvest Wane Near Elephant Corridor
“Residents of the larger Meru Central region, many of them farmers, live under fear of elephants.” - allAfrica.com
Elephants Kill 5 in Zamfara
“Five people were said to have lost their lives in Sububu village of Maradun Local Government when a dozen destructive elephants invaded the village last week.” - allAfrica.com
Botswana: Problem Elephants
“Many government officials believe there are too many elephants in Botswana and they would like to be able to make a bit of cash from regular sales of ivory and other cull by-products.” - allAfrica.com
