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Community buy-in stamps out elephant poaching in North Luangwa National Park April 26, 2019Elephants are safer in Zambia’s North Luangwa National Park thanks to a pioneering community-focused conservation program run by ECF partner, Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS). The participation of communities in the program living near the park’s borders has seen a reduction in the poaching of elephants, rhinos and other wildlife in the park.
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Sudan a new elephant range state? March 20, 2019Given the perilous state of elephants in Africa, it is not often that a new country can boast of hosting elephants – and potentially being recognised as a ‘range state’, able to engage in continental level debates on the future of elephants. A recent sighting in Sudan may be an exception.
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Hong Kong failing to tackle illegal wildlife trade – study January 23, 2019Hong Kong’s illegal wildlife trade is contributing to a global extinction crisis. Every year millions of live animals, plants and their derivatives are illegally trafficked into and through Hong Kong, by transnational companies and organised crime syndicates.
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David Attenborough and Prince William take world leaders to task on environment January 23, 2019Sir David Attenborough has warned that humankind has the power to exterminate whole ecosystems “without even noticing”, and urged world leaders to treat the natural world with respect, during an interview with Prince William in Davos.
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China busts major ivory trafficking gang following EIA investigation January 16, 2019In 2017, an undercover operation by the watchdog group Environmental Investigation Agency identified three men involved in smuggling elephant ivory from Africa to the little-known town of Shuidong in China, which, according to the trafficking syndicate, receives up to 80 percent of all illegal ivory from Africa.
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Poachers’ paradise is now an African conservation triumph January 8, 2019African Parks has made Rwanda’s Akagera park a major tourism success story — and plans to do the same in even the most remote places in the continent
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