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Nonprofit works with veterinarians and farmers to protect rhinos from poachers in South Africa
National parks in South Africa are under siege, plagued by poachers, and Kruger National Park is ground zero. In a joint project with ESPN's E60, ABC News' Bob Woodruff and team joined the Kruger forensics staff as they investigated their third crime scene on a recent day. -
Trump admin. to reverse ban on elephant trophies from Africa
The Trump administration plans to allow hunters to bring trophies of elephants they killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia back to the United States, reversing a ban put in place by the Obama administration in 2014, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official confirmed for ABC News today. -
Crocodile lizard, snail-eating turtle among 115 new species discovered in South Asia
An expansive new report describes more than 115 new animal and plant species that were previously undiscovered in the Greater Mekong region of Asia, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Although the area is considered at risk for native species because of development and other changes, the discovery of these species is a welcome sign for scientists. -
New Study Shows Over a Third of Protected Areas Surveyed are Severely at Risk of Losing Tigers
A new survey of over a hundred tiger conservation areas, where an estimated 70 percent of the world’s wild tigers live, found that only 13 percent of them are able to meet global standards. At least one-third of them are severely at risk of losing their tigers. Alarmingly, most of these sites are in Southeast Asia, where tigers have suffered the most dramatic decline in the past decade. -
Google, Facebook join global fight to stop online wildlife trafficking
Google and Facebook joined more than a dozen major tech firms in the fight against illegal wildlife trafficking, part of a larger effort aimed at stopping poachers from selling banned products like ivory, rhino horns and tiger cubs online. -
WWF Statement on Death of Sudan, the Last Remaining Male Northern White Rhino
The last remaining male Northern white rhino, Sudan, passed away in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya on March 19, 2018. In response to this news, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued the following statement from Bas Huijbregts, African species manager: “This is a wake-up call to humankind that our actions have irreversible consequences for the species we cherish." -
Collaring elephants in one of Africa's last great wildernesses
Thanks to satellite collars, 60 elephants will be monitored for better protection against poaching in one of the last great African wildernesses, Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve. It’s an ambitious undertaking—the country’s largest ever elephant collaring effort—carried out by the Tanzanian government in collaboration with WWF. -
WWF Statement on Taiwan's Announcement to Ban Ivory Trade
“We hope this is a tipping point in the fight against elephant poaching and the insidious illegal ivory trade that claims the lives of more than 20,000 African elephants a year. After a joint agreement by the United States and China to shut down their ivory markets, made in 2015, governments around the world have rallied to end ivory sales and dry up the consumer demand that fuels this wildlife crime...” -
The "Tom Cruise" of Bollywood Poaching Charges
Salman Khan, one of India’s biggest movie stars, was found guilty by a court in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, for shooting a blackbuck -- an endangered Indian antelope -- 19 years ago. The court also fined him 10,000 rupees, or $154. The actor allegedly killed two blackbucks, while shooting the 1998 film "Hum Saath Saath Hain." Four other co-stars, who were also charged with the offense, have been acquitted. -
Battle to save Africa's elephants is gaining some ground
The Associated Press traveled to southern Tanzania, where killings have declined after catastrophic losses. The AP team witnessed part of a yearlong effort to collar and track 60 elephants in and around an ecosystem comprising Mikumi National Park and the much larger Selous Game Reserve, widely acknowledged as 'Ground Zero' in the poaching that has decimated Africa's elephants in recent years.
