czech dogs coming to the rescue of africa’s elephants
and other poaching victims. http://praguemonitor.com/2015/01/20/first-czech-dog-flies-congo-help-fight-ivory-smugglers
sharkfin victory may offer hope for elephants
Even cultures with long, established traditions of consuming wild animal parts can change. As WildAid’s Peter Knights says, “It is a myth that people in Asia don’t care about wildlife. Consumption is based on ignorance not malice.” After a concerted publicity campaign Chinese consumption of sharkfin soup is down 60-70%. Now it’s the elephants’ turn. …Read More
use of cyanide takes the poaching nightmare to a new level
http://www.voanews.com/content/elephants-killed-by-cyanide-reveal-alarming-innovation-in-poaching-tactics/1760380.html
rhino horn and ivory selling cheap and in the open in Jo’burg
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-10-04-00-rhino-horn-trade-thrives-in-joburg
africans aren’t the only ones killing the elephants
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/nra-hunting-show-nbcsn-elephant-hitler-cancelled
We should raise a glass of champagne ourselves and toasted NBC for yanking this show.
more grim news on the elephant poisonings with cyanide at Hwange Park
In my 2011 Vanity Fair piece, I describe how Johnny Rodrigues made a 24-hour video of a water hole at Hwange Park in Zimbabwe which showed that each species came to drink in its turn, and the predators didn’t kill on their prey. Every animal’s right to access to the life-giving fluid was respected. Johnny …Read More
the cyanide-using poachers have been swiftly caught and given 15 years
http://www.enca.com/africa/zimbabwe-poachers-jailed-15-years-elephant-poisoning
The introduction of cyanide into poachers’ killing methods is a new low, and the global outrage was as instant and huge as that over the Assad’s use of sarin on the women and children of Syria’s. This must be the reason why the poachers were swiftly caught and given 15 years, and unusually high sentence …Read More
sickening news for forest elephants
got this from Melissa Groo, who does Save the Elephants’ daily roundup of new stories about elephants around the world. Melissa (who is also a phenomenal bird photographer. we spent the last week of March on the Platte River in Nebraska where 600,000 sandhill cranes were doing their dances and fueling up for the trip …Read More
the battle for the elephants is raging
last year more elephants were killed than in 2011, which was when my piece, “Agony and Ivory,” came out in Vanity Fair, and 2011 was the worst year in twenty years, when the last, Japan-consumer-driven pogrom on pachyderms took place. The piece was followed by hard-hitting reportage by the National Geographic and the New York …Read More
new york times editorial on elephant slaughter
Elephant Slaughter Editorial, New York Times
September 8, 2012
Not long ago it looked as though elephant poaching in Africa was on the downswing, in part because of more rigorous enforcement of a global ban on trade in most elephant ivory imposed in 1989. That moment is gone and with it, elephants in the tens of thousands every …Read More