Elephant Poaching

• Botswana lifts ban on elephant hunting as activists warn of poaching

  The southern African nation is home to an estimated 130,000 elephants.

  World

  May 24, 2019
  
• African elephant populations down 30 per cent according to new census

  That means that there are 144,000 fewer elephants now roaming the continent, according to The Great Elephant Census (GEC).

  Environment

  Sep 1, 2016
  
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• 3 arrested after anti-poaching pilot shot down in Tanzania

  Elephant poachers in Tanzania fired on a helicopter on an anti-poaching mission and killed the British pilot, and authorities said Sunday that they have arrested three suspects.

  World

  Jan 31, 2016
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• Mozambique to fight poaching by destroying stockpile of ivory, rhino horn

  Mozambique plans to destroy more than one ton of confiscated ivory as well as 53 rhino horns to show its resolve in the fight against poaching, a New York-based conservation group said Saturday.

  World

  Jul 4, 2015
• Elephant numbers plunge in Mozambique, rise in Uganda

  Poachers slaughtering elephants in Mozambique cut their population almost in half from 2009 to last year, but in Uganda, elephant numbers are increasing as a result of anti-poaching measures, according to aerial surveys.

  World

  May 28, 2015
• 100,000 elephants killed across Africa from 2010-2012: study

  Poachers killed an estimated 100,000 elephants across Africa between 2010 and 2012, a huge spike in the continent's death rate of one of the world's largest mammals.

  Environment

  Aug 19, 2014