WASHINGTON, DC, February 12, 2014 (ENS) – The Obama administration Tuesday announced a new National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking that marshals the resources of all executive branch agencies. As part of the new strategy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will implement a U.S. ban on commercial import and export of elephant ivory. […]
LONDON, UK, February 12, 2014 (ENS) – To combat a global epidemic of criminal wildlife poaching and trafficking, the leaders of 50 countries are meeting this week at the London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade, convened by the British Government. […]
SYDNEY, Australia, February 6, 2014 (ENS) – A species of beaked whale that was previously misnamed has been correctly identified as a new species, based on the study of seven whales stranded on remote tropical islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans over the past 50 years. […]
PARIS, France, February 6, 2014 (ENS) – Today in Paris, beside the Eiffel Tower, the government of France crushed 3.5 metric tonnes of illegal ivory seized over a period of 20 years by French Customs officers, becoming the first European country to carry out public destruction of government-held ivory. […]
MASERU, Lesotho, February 4, 204 (ENS) – A controversial wind farm proposed for Lesotho’s Maluti-Drakensberg region has received the green light from the Lesotho government. But BirdLife South Africa and its conservation partners have requested that the government of this mountainous independent kingdom rethink its decision. […]
MELBOURNE, Australia, February 3, 2014 (ENS) – Across the world’s oceans, there is just one naval battle currently taking place – a battle between the Japanese whaling fleet of four ships and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s whale defense fleet of three ships, a helicopter and six inflatables. […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico, January 31, 2014 (ENS) – Monarch butterflies are vanishing from the Monarch Reserve in Mexico’s temperate forest where they spend November through March hibernating after migrating more than 2,500 miles from Canada and the United States. Conservationists are urging all three countries to agree on a joint plan to keep the annual migration from fading into history. […]
HONG KONG, China, January 24, 2014 (ENS) – Acting against a centuries-old tradition of carving ivory into religious objects, the Hong Kong government Thursday decided to destroy one of the world’s largest ivory stockpiles as a deterrent to poachers who kill up to 96 elephants a day across Africa. […]
GLAND, Switzerland, January 21, 2014 (ENS) – At least one in every four existing species of sharks and rays may not survive into the future, finds the first global analysis of the conservation status of 1,041 shark, ray and related species. […]
STRASBOURG, France, January 16, 2014 (ENS) – The European Parliament took action against elephant, rhino and tiger poaching Wednesday by passing a resolution on wildlife trafficking that calls for moratoria on ivory trade and other measures against wildlife crime across the European Union. […]
CAMBRIDGE, UK, January 13, 2014 (ENS) – More than 3,300 ivory pieces and nearly 50 raw ivory elephant tusks were found openly for sale in the Myanmar (Burmese) town of Mong La on the Chinese border, according to undercover investigators from the Cambridge-based wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC and Oxford Brookes University. […]
MEULABOH DISTRICT, Aceh, Indonesia, January 12, 2014 (ENS) – An Indonesian court has found the palm oil company PT Kallista Alam guilty of illegally burning large swathes of the Tripa peat forest, which lies within Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, the only place on Earth where tigers, elephants, rhinos, and orangutans live together in the wild. […]
CORVALLIS, Oregon, January 10, 2014 (ENS) – The decline of large predators such as lions, leopards, wolves, otters, and bears is changing landscapes from the tropics to the Arctic, finds a new study from scientists in the United States, Australia, Italy and Sweden. […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, January 8, 2014 (ENS) – Five environmental groups are taking the Government of Canada to court today claiming that it has failed to meet its legal responsibilities under the Species at Risk Act to protect endangered wildlife threatened by the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and oil tanker route. […]
MELBOURNE, Australia, January 6, 2014 (ENS) – On Sunday, the Sea Shepherd whale defense fleet located all five vessels of the Japanese whaling fleet, including the Japanese factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, killing whales inside the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Late Monday, after a 360-mile chase, the Sea Shepherd fleet drove the whalers from the Antarctic Treaty Zone. […]
DONGGUAN, Guangdong, China, January 6, 2014 (ENS) – To protect elephants from ivory poachers by destroying the black market value of their tusks, the Chinese government today conducted the country’s the first public ivory crush. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, December 31, 2013 (ENS) – Forty years ago this month, Congress passed the Endangered Species Act as a safety net for fish, plants and wildlife on the brink of extinction. Today, while 99 percent of listed species have been saved from extinction, the law is under repeated attack by anti-environmental politicians in Congress. […]
ISIOLO, Kenya, December 31, 2013 (ENS) – A self-confessed serial poacher in Kenya’s world-renowned Lewa Downs Conservancy has surrendered and given himself up to the authorities in Isiolo County. […]
HOBOKEN, New Jersey, December 31, 2013 (ENS) – Tigers are in trouble. The largest of the world’s cats, a species that’s existed for two million years, is slipping away before our eyes. Few realize that just 3,000 tigers remain in the wild. I just heard unofficial news that 100 tigers were poached in India in 2013. […]
NEW YORK, New York, December 27, 2013 (ENS) – The United Nations General Assembly is honoring wild animals and plants, particularly endangered and protected species, by designating March 3 as World Wildlife Day. […]
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