Wildlife News

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  Poacher behind March slaughter of 89 elephants captured in Chad
  Posted by Kevin Heath last updated on June 17th, 2013 at 2: 04 pm

  A prolific elephant poacher in Chad has been captured by authorities and paraded to the media. The poacher Hassan Idriss, also known as Gargaf is said to be behind the slaughter of 89 elephants in one night (14-15 March) near to Ganba. He is thought to lead a gang of poachers that has killed 192 [...]

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  What? No lions – quick report on the UNESCO World Heritage sites meeting
  Posted by Kevin Heath last updated on June 17th, 2013 at 12: 04 pm

  The UNESCO World Heritage Sites committee is currently meeting in Phnom Penh Cambodia. The welcoming session started yesterday (Sun 16th June) and it is planned to last until 27TH June. However at the speed in which they are going it is going to be difficult to fill up those days. Today was meant to be [...]

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  KWS Director delivers speech to annual meeting
  Posted by Kevin Heath last updated on June 14th, 2013 at 5: 10 pm

  The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Director, William Kiprono, has delivered a speech about the current state of wildlife to the annual meeting of Wardens and Scientists. The meeting was held at the KWS headquarters in Nairobi. As you would expect the bulk of the speech was connected with the current wildlife poaching crisis. Some of the [...]

Previous news post...

• Fewer than 1,000 Great White sharks remain in South Africa
  Posted by Kevin Heath on June 13th, 2013 at 4: 58 pm
  South Africa is thought to be home to the world’s largest population of Great White sharks. The species is one of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring of the shark family. A new survey though [Read more...]
• Springwatch rustles a few feathers over nesting
  Posted by Kevin Heath on June 12th, 2013 at 6: 24 pm
  Just catching up on yesterday’s BBC Springwatch programme and it appears that one of the items has caused a fair bit of controversy on the internet forums and in the media. The culprit was a [Read more...]
• China trains first wildlife detection dogs
  Posted by Kevin Heath on June 11th, 2013 at 11: 49 am
  China’s largest dog training complex in Ruili is now not just training dogs in the battle against drugs. They have three labradors undergoing training to detect contraband wildlife products. [Read more...]
• China’s secret rhino farms
  Posted by Kevin Heath on June 9th, 2013 at 4: 45 pm
  Could a Chinese company be making a second attempt at establishing a rhino farm in the country to harvest horn? It would be one way for China to get around the CITES rhino horn ban as domestic trade [Read more...]
• Losing the fight to save the rhino
  Posted by Kevin Heath on June 7th, 2013 at 6: 24 pm
  Over the last 3 or 4 years there has been a chilling increase in the number of rhinos being poached each year. While the numbers seem to escalate there was hope that the rhino would survive provided [Read more...]
• Manta Ray tourism worth $140 million a year
  Posted by Leya Musa on June 6th, 2013 at 11: 25 am
  Swimming with manta rays is one of the highlights for any scuba diver and can be a valuable source of money and jobs for local people. The latest estimate for the value of manta ray tourism has been [Read more...]
• South African MP calls for restart of seal hunt
  Posted by Kevin Heath on June 5th, 2013 at 8: 51 pm
  ANC MP Miss Meriam Phaliso has called for the restart of the South African fur seal hunt as a way of boosting jobs now that a number of fisheries around the coast has been fished out. Phaliso who is [Read more...]
• 450000 water monitor lizards killed each year for handbags
  Posted by Kevin Heath on June 3rd, 2013 at 3: 08 pm
  A team of Indonesian and German researchers have recently published a comprehensive study into the current state of south-east Asia’s giant lizard populations. Despite all the species of the [Read more...]

A selection from our archives...

• BBC documentary leads to campaign to end trade in slow loris
  After hosting a BBC Natural World documentary revealing the plight of the slow loris in Indonesia, a top primatologist has [Read more...]
• Butterflies move faster than birds in response to climate change
  A new study published by a team of European researchers have followed the movement of butterflies and birds in relation to a [Read more...]
• Live blog: Big Garden Birdwatch 2012.
  The day has arrived for my Big Garden Birdwatch in central Abergavenny. I’ve set aside the time of between 8.30 am and [Read more...]
• 16,000 turtles caught despite ban
  Even though the Madagascan government have imposed a ban on the catching of turtles off it’s coast the latest survey [Read more...]
• European bears avoid contact with humans
  The Scandinavian brown bear is a real success story in recent times. The European brown bear was almost driven to the edge of [Read more...]
• Vietnam issues warning about wildlife as Tet festival approaches
    With just a couple of weeks left before the Chinese New Year and the Tet Festival in Vietnam the authorities has issued a [Read more...]
• Top wildlife stories of 2010
  Top 10 wildlife stories of 2010 It’s the end of another year so I’m taking a quick look back at some of the most [Read more...]
• Conservation project to help rare birds and butterflies
  The Forestry Commission is aiming to help conserve some of Britains rarest birds and butterflies with it’s new study in [Read more...]
• Hunger strike for tigers begins tomorrow
  Wildlife activist Bandu Dhotre,  founder of Indian wildlife group Eco-Pro, will tomorrow begin a fast outside the offices of [Read more...]