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Guinea: New family of Critically Endangered forest elephants spotted, including three babies

By Megan Shersby, Discover Wildlife Conservationists at Fauna & Flora International (FFI) and Centre Forestier N’Zérékoré are celebrating after their camera traps captured footage of a family of African forest elephants in the Ziama Forest in Guinea. The family had not been seen before by any of the local team, and included three calves. It is thought that less than...

Opinion: Japan must finally end the sale and trade of elephant ivory

that the Games have come to symbolize. Each of us, in the administrations we served, wedded these traditional concerns of state to the conservation of nature — and of wildlife species in particular. The growth of wildlife trafficking by sophisticated criminal syndicates has heightened our conviction that the world must speak with one voice.

27 July 2021

Canada launches consultation on stricter measures for elephant ivory trade

By Cision OTTAWA, ON, July 23, 2021 /CNW/ – Here in Canada and around the world, biodiversity is declining at unprecedented rates. Since 1980, the number of elephants in Africa has fallen from 1,3 million to just over 400,000—a decline of 70 percent. Today, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, launched a 60-day consultation to garner feedback from Canadians on a potential revised approach...

Eco-inclusive enterprises awarded for community impact

THE HERALD A company in Botswana that trains farmers to use bees to stop elephants destroying their farms, a Zambian business which promotes sustainable bee-farming, and a Malawian start-up which turns leftovers into cooking gas have won the SEED Awards for Climate Adaptation. SEED was founded as part of a global partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the...

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Category: News

Guinea: New family of Critically Endangered forest elephants spotted, including three babies

Opinion: Japan must finally end the sale and trade of elephant ivory

Canada launches consultation on stricter measures for elephant ivory trade

Eco-inclusive enterprises awarded for community impact

EU risks stalling progress on wildlife protections at global conference

Africa is not a country: Europe’s neo-colonial attitude to the protection of African elephants

EU backtracks: Once again, it supports the export of baby elephants out of Africa

Ivory from at least 150 poached elephants seized in the DRC raid

Incredible Journey of Meandering Elephants Ends at Kruger National Park: 5 Relocated, 6 Missing