Elephants in Tanzania’s sprawling Selous Game Reserve could be wiped out within six years if poaching continues at current levels, the World Wildlife Fund warned. Tanzania’s largest nature reserve was in the 1970s home to…
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#WorthMoreAlive: Kenya’s mega ivory piles ‘will burn even if it snows’
Eleven towering piles of ivory rise above the savannah grasslands of Nairobi National Park, ready to be burned Saturday in a symbolic grand gesture against the trade threatening elephants with extinction. It will be…
Our2Cents Ep. 78: Ivory is worthless unless it’s on a living elephant
The Government of Kenya will set fire to 105 tons of ivory on April 30, 2016 – the largest ever stockpile in Africa’s history – sending a clear message to the world that Kenya will…
#Conservation: Tracking elephants as new railway cuts Kenya
Dangling from a helicopter with a high powered rifle, a Kenyan vet fires drugged darts at elephants to sedate them so they can be fitted with satellite collars. Ten minutes after the elephant is darted,…
Nigeria bets on elephants and warm springs to lure tourists
A luxury safari is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when potential tourists think of Nigeria but that’s exactly what Yankari Game Reserve is hoping to change. In Africa’s largest economy, suffering…
#Travel: See Samburu National Reserve, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy through Google
Google, for the first time, has released Street View imagery of Kenya of Samburu National Reserve, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in partnership with Save the Elephants. For the last 15…
#Conservation: Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit wins top UNEP award
The Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit, a South African and majority-women ranger group, has been announced as one of the winners of the United Nation’s top environmental accolade, the Champions of the Earth award. With this…
Lupita Nyong’o leads fight against elephant poaching
Lupita Nyong’o is leading a campaign against elephant poaching. The Oscar-winning actress has returned to Kenya to become a global elephant ambassador for international conservation organisation WildAid, advocating against the slaughter of elephants for their…
Lupita sneaks quietly back into Kenya
Lupita Nyong’o is back in Nairobi, Kenya. The Oscar-winning actress is in Kenya to host an arts mentorship at the Godown Arts Centre, and later an exclusive gala dinner at Villa Rosa Kempinski on Thursday,…
Elephant conservation: Ringling elephants say goodbye to the circus
Across America through the decades, children of all ages delighted in the arrival of the circus, with its retinue of clowns, acrobats and, most especially, elephants. But, bowing to criticism from animal rights groups, the…