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1.5 tons of elephant tusks seized

By on May 25, 2012 in Wildlife

(Cape Town, South Africa – 24 May) Sri Lankan authorities siezed more than1.5 tons of ivory in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Tuesday, 24 May. The confiscation of more than 350 tusks is the largest in the island’s history. The tusk cargo had been described as ‘plastic waste’ and was hidden among logs of wood packed …

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5,000 elephants killed in Republic of Congo

By on May 24, 2012 in Wildlife

Understandably there has been a major outcry over the killing of hundreds of elephants in Cameroon. Here elephants, numbering into their hundreds, have been gunned down for their ivory. The finger has been pointed at armed horseman from Sudan, more than 1000 kilometres away. According to Richard Carroll, vice president of World Wildlife Fund U.S. …

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Death in the Congo: The background to Garamba’s elephant tragedy!

By on May 9, 2012 in Conservation, Wildlife

I’ve never been to Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and I may never see the incredible reserve for myself. But I take great inspiration and motivation knowing that the park exists. There, wedged between the DRC, South Sudan and Uganda, amongst all the political and social problems of the area, rests …

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