CITES CoP19 Commentary

EU risks stalling progress on wildlife protections at global conference

Commentary

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

Commentary

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

News

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

News

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

News

Zimbabwe: Massive transformation for Hwange National Park partner pumps in US$5 million

News

Botswana to translocate 500 elephants to Mozambique

Commentary

Uproar over plan to litter Botswana’s Chobe National Park with lodges

Commentary

Namibia admits to questionable export of elephants overseas

Press Release

Press Release: CITES Standing Committee Agrees that Countries Must Continue to Report on their Domestic Ivory Markets

Press Release

Press Release: Namibia exports 22 Wild elephants in blatant disregard of international law

Press Release

Press Release: Campaigners and Nations Step Up Efforts to Close Ivory Market in Japan

Commentary

Japan continues to accelerate the decline of African elephants

News

Namibia: Successful elephant auction bidders revealed

News

Kenya: Man in court for trying to sell Sh300,000 tusks to cops

Commentary

Namibia’s case for its controversial elephant sale grows weaker by the day

Documents

Legal Opinion on CITES Rules on Exports of Live African Elephants from Namibia

News

South Africa grants permits to hunt 10 critically endangered black rhino

News

Namibia: Canadian oil company illegally bulldozes protected land in Africa

News

Mozambique: Eleven Elephant Tusks Seized in Tete

African elephant species now Endangered and Critically Endangered – IUCN Red List

By International Union for Conservation of Nature – IUCN Gland, Switzerland, 25 March 2021 (IUCN) – Following population declines over several decades due to poaching for ivory and loss of habitat, the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is now listed as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Before today’s update,...

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