The pictures of the starving lions trapped in the Sudanese Al Qurashi Family Park Zoo have made headlines around the world. Weary, malnourished lions lied on the ground in a zoo enclosure in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, their bones protruding under their skin: the disturbing images from a private zoo park posted online have evoked…
Category: Wildlife
South Africa wildlife threatened
A severe drought is threatening South Africa’s wildlife with game farmers keeping fewer animals and tourists visiting game lodges in smaller numbers, subsequently hitting he entire wildlife industry. A severe drought is threatening South Africa's wildlife industry, with game farmers keeping fewer animals and tourists visiting game lodges in smaller numbers https://t.co/ImR6xeW6aN pic.twitter.com/mgWKWyguwv — Reuters…
Tanzania ports exploited by traffickers
The vulnerabilities in maritime transportation and customs are being exploited by criminal traffickers in African sea ports. Container shipping facilitates the movement of wildlife goods, and maritime companies and their assets, wittingly or unwittingly complicit in wildlife trafficking, face legal, financial and reputation risks, according tot the Maritime Executive. Wildlife Trafficking in Africa Poses Risk…
“Roadkill”: lions use tourists as cover
Tourists were startled when a lion attacked an antelope kudu in the middle of the road in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. According to animal behaviorists, predators have been adapting to co-habitation with tourists, making best out of in, namely using cars as a cover for hunting of antelopes. This is an advanced type…
Tanzania elephant & rhino populations recover
Tanzania presidency reported elephant and rhino populations have begun to recover after a government crackdown dismantled organized criminal networks involved in industrial-scale poaching and transporting the ivory to China. A influential Chinese businesswoman running a poaching network on industrial scale, dubbed the “Ivory Queen” was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Tanzanian court…
World giraffe day
Their habitat is being lost at an alarming rate, not to mention the myriad other threats they deal with, including poaching, the trade in giraffe parts, giraffe skin disease, vehicle collisions, and droughts. 🦒World Giraffe Day🦒 pic.twitter.com/knr1N2QZC7 — World Wildlife Fund (@World_Wildlife) June 21, 2019 There are a lot of factors leading to the giraffe’s…
Botswana rare vultures massively poisoned
More than 500 endangered vultures died after ingesting three dead elephants whose carcasses were poisoned by poachers, the Botswana government said in a statement. #WildlifeCrime in a double sense: 500 #vultures die in #Botswana after eating poisoned #Elephants 🦅🐘☠ #poaching #ivory #endangeredhttps://t.co/Skkhyq5ou4 — Pro Wildlife (@prowildlife) June 21, 2019 The 537 vultures and two tawny…
Botswana lifts hunting suspension
Botswana’s Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism announced that “the government of Botswana has taken a decision to lift the hunting suspension.” BREAKING NEWS: #Botswana, which has the world’s biggest population of #elephants, lifted its suspension on hunting, a move that is likely to spark further debate on a politically charged issue in the…
Uganda kidnappers demand $500,000 ransom
An American citizen who was kidnapped with her driver at Uganda’s most popular wildlife park by gunmen had failed to take an armed ranger as required by the park’s regulations, a spokesperson for the wildlife authority said. Four armed men in Uganda‘s Queen Elizabeth National Park. according to CNN have used the victim’s phone to…
Chinese poachers with $1 million rhino horns face justice
The seven Chinese stood before Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, magistrate Ms Rangarirai Gakanje. 7 Chinese Zeng Dengui (35), Peicon Jang (35), Liu Cheng (23), Yu Xian (25), Yong Zhu (25), Chen Zhiangfu (30) and Qui Jinchang (29) Found with Rhino horns worth over $ 1million near Victoria falls pic.twitter.com/s1Uc4SIff4 — AfricaDigest (@africlandpost) December 27, 2018 They…
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