Wildlife News

[Nyasa Times] Senior Resident Magistrate Wanangwa Nyirenda on Thursday, December 1st 2022, sentenced Zambian national Kelby Roy Malambo to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour for the three charges he faced in the MK53m wildlife crime case involving elephant ivory.

[Namibia Economist] Namibia and its partners in wildlife protection and law enforcement will step up efforts against wildlife crime in the country during this year's festive season.

[New Zimbabwe] Shylet died as she walked home from her older sister's house at dusk. She was 22 years old, and she had her six-month-old baby in a sling around her waist.

[The Conversation Africa] As part of an international team of scientists we have confirmed a new species of owl after decades of speculation that it exists on Príncipe Island, part of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe in central Africa.

[The Conversation Africa] Community-based wildlife conservation is often promoted as a win-win solution. The idea behind this approach is that the people who live close to wildlife can be involved in protecting it and have an interest in doing so.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has announced that another male Tusker has died at the Tsavo West National Park.

[Nile Post] The male White Bengal tiger at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) has been named Yura.

[SAnews.gov.za] The South African National Parks (SANParks) has welcomed the heavy sentencing of a rhino poacher by the Skukuza Regional Court, to a total of 52 years in prison for rhino poaching and related offences.

[The Conversation Africa] The African civet -- an animal closely related to the mongoose and widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa -- is among four mammals known to secrete scented compounds. Civets produce this "musk" to mark territory and communicate among themselves and other animals. It recently appeared in the news because when the UK's King Charles III is crowned in 2023 he'll be anointed with an oil which includes civet musk. This follows a long tradition. When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, she was anointed with

[New Times] Grey Crowned Crane population in Rwanda has more than doubled in Rwanda, according to a report presented during biodiversity day at the 27th UN climate change conference in Egypt.

[The Point] The Honourable Secretary of State for Climate Change and Sustainable Development of the Republic of Angola Ms. Paula Francisca Coelho has presided over the launching of the Pan African Network for the Conservation of Africa's Natural Resources (PANCANR).

[VOA] Gaborone -- Botswana said it's seen a dramatic drop in rhinoceros poaching this year after taking greater steps to protect its shrinking rhino population.

[The Conversation Africa] Mangrove forests are a common sight in some tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world like Indonesia, Florida in the US, parts of Brazil and Australia. They can also be found on African coasts, including South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces.

[MAP] Geneva -- Morocco was elected to the Standing Committee of the Convention on Wetlands "RAMSAR" as representative of the North African sub-region, for the period 2022-2025, on the sidelines of the 14th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP14), which was held in hybrid mode in Wuhan (China) and Geneva (Switzerland) on November 5-13.

[The Herald] Climate change, alongside a huge elephant population, land degradation and habitat loss, are emerging as top threats to biodiversity at Mana Pools National Park tucked on the southern banks of the Zambezi River in northern Zimbabwe.

[The Conversation Africa] Climate change has produced a number of threats to wildlife. Over time, changing rainfall patterns have transformed habitats and forced animals to move. Increasing temperatures are causing mass die-off events during heat waves and making it hard for animals to find food.

[The Point] Madam Dench with WABSA Members ,West Africa Birds Study Association (WABSA) last week hosted an eight-member team from 'Flight of the Osprey Expedition Team' from UK led by the UN Ambassador for Migratory Species, Madam Sacha Dench.

[allAfrica] As 2,500 people converge on Panama for the World Wildlife Conference from November 14, two leading international officials responsible for ensuring sustainable trade in wildlife outline how both to protect endangered species and to ensure efficient trading. In a guest column for AllAfrica, Ivonne Higuero, Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and Shamika N. Sirimanne, Director of Technology and Logistics at the United Nations Confe

[The Conversation Africa] During the northern hemisphere summer of 2022, yet another round of extreme heat waves roasted Eurasia, North America and northern Africa - a stark reminder that these conditions are becoming the new normal.

[IPS] Montreal, Canada -- It is no secret that humankind's past actions have accelerated the deterioration of ecosystems, negatively impacting our economies, societies, health, and cultures. It is estimated that humans have altered over 97% of ecosystems worldwide, to date. One million species are currently threatened with extinction (IPBES). The writing on the wall is clear. Our planet is in crisis. The sobering reality is that if we continue on our current trajectory, biodiversity and the services it provides will continue to dec

[DW] Scores of other wildlife have died since February as Kenya battles its worst drought in 40 years. The failure of four consecutive rain seasons has devastated East Africa.

[allAfrica] Harare -- The East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (EACOP) will transport oil produced from Uganda's Lake Albert oilfields to the port of Tanga in Tanzania, where the oil will then be sold to world markets. While this may be considered an economic boon for East Africa by some, climate activists are raising concerns about the threat to the livelihood of community members, sensitive ecosystems, and worsening the climate emergency.

[The Bureau of Investigative Journalism] In the Campos basin off the south-east coast of Brazil, two ships contracted by a major energy corporation will be used to mine vast quantities of oil in a project that could generate more than 1 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions.

[VOA] Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Tanzania's Ministry of Tourism released a census this week showing the country's elephant population has stabilized.

[Daily News] Arusha -- Tanzania leads the continent with the highest number of buffaloes, a latest report says.

[AIM] Maputo -- The National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) on Friday (21) arrested one poacher in possession of 94 kilos of tusks of elephants allegedly killed in the Magoé National Park (Mozambique) and in neighbouring Zimbabwe.

[The Conversation Africa] In 1835 Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution, was exploring an island in the Galápagos archipelago when he encountered "two large tortoises, each of which must have weighed at least two hundred pounds". He had never seen anything like them. He became entranced by the animals and took at least one back to England as a pet.

[The Conversation Africa] To survive, animals compete for resources, be it food, mating partners or territory. But a ground breaking recent study shows chimpanzees and gorillas form friendships, some lasting at least 20 years. They play, eat and socialise together.