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Pangolins, Elephants: Crime Networks Wiping Out Wild Africa

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 19, 2025 (ENS) – A new investigative report has laid bare the scale and complexity of wildlife trafficking across southern Africa, exposing a tangled web of corruption, organized crime and systemic failures that are eroding conservation efforts and fueling illicit markets. […]

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Kruger Park Lions Being Poisoned by Poachers for Body Parts

PRETORIA, South Africa, August 6, 2023 (ENS) – South African National Parks has confirmed that lions have been targeted in a poisoning campaign in northern Kruger Park by poachers seeking the animals’ body parts, presumably for the trade in the muti, traditional medicine, trade. […]

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Kruger Park Ensnared in Corruption Linked to Criminal Syndicates

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, March 28 (ENS) – Yet another suspected poacher has died in a hail of bullets fired by unknown gunmen in the eastern province of Mpumalanga’s landscape of fear. Clyde Mnisi, Chief of the Mnisi Tribal Authority, trailing charges of murder, money laundering, illegal sale of rhino horn and racketeering, died of multiple bullet wounds near Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport late Sunday night. […]

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U.S.-South Africa Wildlife Task Force to ‘Follow the Money’

PRETORIA, South Africa, January 25, 2023 (ENS) – In her meeting with South African officials today, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced a commitment between the U.S. Treasury and South Africa’s National Treasury to form a new United States – South Africa Task Force on Combating the Financing of Wildlife Trafficking. […]

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Congo Imprisons Elephant Poacher for 30 Years

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo, August 22, 2020 (ENS) – A criminal court in the Republic of Congo has sentenced a notorious poacher and ivory trafficker, Mobanza Mobembo Gérard, alias Guyvanho, to 30 years in prison for the attempted murder of park rangers, trafficking of ivory from poached elephants, possession of military weapons, and other charges. […]