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Rhino poaching in SA still ‘unacceptably high’ – TRAFFIC

TRAFFIC, the Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network, has described as "tiny" the rate of decrease of rhino poaching in South Africa in 2017 compared to...

admin - January 25, 2018

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Fighting corruption in forest conservation: Kenya’s multi-stakeholder task force

Corruption and climate change are arguably the defining challenges facing the world today. Both problems – and their solutions – are interlinked. In particular, corruption...

admin - January 25, 2018

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Protected areas threatened by overexploitation, human activity – Study

Protected areas across the world are most threatened by unsustainable resource use and human disturbance, a new study has found. The authors of this paper, published this...

admin - January 18, 2018

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Kenya welcomes UK’s plan on ending domestic ivory markets

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has welcomed the British government’s plan to close – with some limited exemptions – its domestic ivory markets. Ivory (whether raw...

admin - January 17, 2018

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EU-funded scheme: Guards kills indigenous Sengwer man in Kenya

Forty one-year-old Robert Kirotich was on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 reportedly shot by EU-funded guards working for the Kenya Forestry Service. Another wounded man,...

admin - January 17, 2018

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National Park Service to be repositioned for global service delivery

The Conservator-General, Nigeria National Park Service, Alhaji Ibrahim Goni, on Monday, January 15, 2018 said that the service would be repositioned for global service...

admin - January 15, 2018

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CITES: Parties urged to take stock of elephant ivory, rhino horn

In line with resolutions reached at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP17) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species...

admin - January 14, 2018

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Africa loses 43% of its lions in 21 years

The number of lions in the wild is said to be steadily decreasing. In just two decades, Africa’s lion population has decreased by 43%,...

admin - January 14, 2018

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