Kenya, Ethiopia authorities seize massive piles of bloody elephant ivory at airportsSeptember 30th, 2009 Kenya, Ethiopia authorities seize ivory stashNAIROBI, Kenya — Authorities in Ethiopia and Kenya have seized more than 2,600 pounds (1,200 kilograms) of bloodstained ivory from about 100 illegally killed elephants at airports, the head of Kenya's Wildlife Service said Wednesday. Julius Kipng'etich said trained dogs sniffed out a consignment of bloodstained tusks at Kenya's national airport late Tuesday.
As rivers dry up and grasses whither, Kenya's majestic elephants begin dyingSeptember 9th, 2009 Kenya's elephants dying amid droughtNAIROBI, Kenya — A drought in Kenya has gotten so bad that it is felling even the giants of the animal kingdom — the country's famed elephants which are dying as rivers dry up and grasslands shrivel in parched game reserves. The bones of the elephants bleaching under a relentless African sun underscore how bad the drought is.
Wildlife crime control bureau keen to probe Goa tiger poachingSeptember 8th, 2009 PANAJI - The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), which was set up to check organised poaching, has not been approached to probe a sensational tiger poaching case in Goa, though the state's forest department has made no headway in seven months. The WCCB dismissed recent reports in the local media that it had been roped in to handle the poaching case but said it is keen to help the Goa government.
Jharkhand distributes mobile phones to tackle elephant menaceAugust 17th, 2009 RANCHI - The Jharkhand forest department is distributing mobile phones free of cost to keep track of movements of wild elephants that run amok in villages close to forest areas. Mobiles are being distributed to one member of the Joint Forest and Village Defence Committee (JFVDC) member of each village.
Special diet, prayers for elephants in KeralaJuly 17th, 2009 THRISSUR - Elephants are surely being pampered in Kerala. While nearly 65 of them will go for a month long rejuvenation programme at the Guruvayoor temple, Thrissur town Friday had a special prayer for the elephants attended by thousands of devotees.
Kenya seizes shipment of ivory, rhino horn heading to Asia on cargo planeJuly 14th, 2009 Kenya seizes ivory, rhino horn heading to AsiaNAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya seized more than 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of illegal ivory and black rhinoceros horn — some of it still bloody — on a cargo plane headed to Asia on Tuesday, wildlife officials said. The blood on some of the 16 elephant tusks and two rhino horns suggested the animals had been killed recently, said Patrick Omondi of the biodiversity and research division of the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Court order stops relocation of elephants that clashed with farmers in MalawiJune 10th, 2009 Court order stops elephant relocation in MalawiJOHANNESBURG — A court in Malawi has stopped the evacuation of more than 60 elephants from a rural area where they were getting into deadly battles with farmers. Christina Pretorius of the International Fund for Animal Welfare said Wednesday the order came after residents said it would make more sense to create a local national park for the elephants that have raided farm fields.
Elephants being moved from rural area of Malawi to end deadly feud with local farmersJune 8th, 2009 Evacuation of 60 elephants begins in MalawiJOHANNESBURG — Efforts are under way to end a deadly battle between farmers and elephants in a rural area of Malawi. An international organization says it is doing that by moving more than 60 elephants in the southern African country.
Elephant-human clashes in Malawi force mass translocationJune 5th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - The government of Malawi is teaming up with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to move over 60 elephants from a densely-populated area where at least 10 people have been killed by elephants scavenging for food, IFAW said Friday. A spokeswoman for IFAW told DPA Friday that the operation to move the wild elephants from Mangoche district on the southern shores of Lake Malawi to a wildlife reserve would begin at the weekend.
3 rare Sumatra elephants found dead in northwestern Indonesia, poison suspectedJune 4th, 2009 Official: 3 rare elephants poisoned in IndonesiaPEKANBARU, Indonesia — Three rare Sumatran elephants were found dead in northwestern Indonesia near an oil palm plantation and are believed to have been poisoned by villagers, a conservationist said Thursday. The carcasses of the protected giant animals were in a forest 560 miles (900 kilometers) from the capital, Jakarta, said Eddy Santoso, head of the local Conservation and Natural Resources Agency.
Zimbabwe de-horns rhinos to curb poachingMay 31st, 2009 HARARE - The Zimbabwe government has launched a massive exercise to de-horn rhinoceroses so that these animals do not have any value for poachers, a media report said. Environment and Natural Resources Management Minister Francis Nhema said the de-horning exercise would remove the "incentives" for poaching.
Forest department nabs four men for tiger poaching in GoaMay 25th, 2009 PANAJI - The forest department Monday admitted that a tiger was poached in the Mhadei wildlife sanctuary in north Goa last month and said that four people have been arrested for killing the animal. The four detained includes Gopal Majik, who is a known poacher arrested some years back for hunting a sambar (deer), deputy conservator of forests (DCF) north division M.K.
2 elephants poisoned by cyanide-laced pineapples found dead in Indonesian jungle without tusksMay 9th, 2009 2 rare elephants found dead in Indonesian junglePEKANBARU, Indonesia — Two rare Sumatran elephants believed to have been poisoned with cyanide-laced pineapples were found dead in the jungles of northwestern Indonesia with their tusks removed, a conservationist said. The giant males aged 16 and 23 were discovered Thursday near Pekanbaru, Sumatra, about 560 miles (900 kilometers) from the capital, Jakarta, said Muslino, a spokesman for the Conservation and Natural Resources Agency.
Elephant exodus reported from troubled Zimbabwe, hungry leopard stalks upmarket suburbApril 27th, 2009 Elephant exodus reported from troubled ZimbabweHARARE, Zimbabwe — Growing pressure from poaching and human encroachment in Zimbabwe has driven hundreds of elephants to migrate from the country and at least one leopard to stalk an upmarket Harare suburb, conservationists said Monday. The independent Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force appealed in its latest monthly bulletin for more action — and money — to preserve the troubled nation's wildlife.
Wild elephants trample 5 villagers to death in IndiaApril 24th, 2009 Wild elephants kill 5 villagers in IndiaGAUHATI, India — Wild elephants demolished two thatched-roof huts, killing five villagers in a pre-dawn attack Friday in India's remote northeast, an official said. The dead included a woman and her two children, Magistrate Ishfaqur Rahman said.
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