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THE COUNTRY THAT BROUGHT ITS ELEPHANTS BACK FROM THE BRINK
A better term is the 'professionalisation' of conservation, says the chief executive of African Parks, Peter Fearnhead... READ MORE›
1/12 BEN THE ELEPHANT ARRIVES LOOKING FOR HELP
Bumi Hills Foundation 4 12 Ben's gunshot wound The elephant had a septic wound which was 4cm in diameter and 10cm deep... READ MORE›
CAN ELEPHANT TROPHY HUNTING REALLY HELP SPECIES SURVIVAL?
Elephant trophies Can trophy hunting really help species survival?... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP PUTS ON HOLD PLANS TO ALLOW ELEPHANT TROPHY IMPORTS A
The rule released on Friday allowing hunters who kill elephants in Zimbabwe to bring their trophies back to the United States outraged animal activists... READ MORE›
TRUMP DELAYS NEW POLICY ON IMPORTING ELEPHANT PARTS
As a result, the number of African elephants has shrunk from about 5 million a century ago to about 400,000... READ MORE›
TRUMP PUTS ELEPHANT TROPHY IMPORTS ON HOLD
President Donald Trump has suspended the import of elephant hunting trophies, only a day after a ban was relaxed by his administration... READ MORE›
TRUMP DELAYS NEW POLICY ON IMPORTING ELEPHANT PARTS
As a result, the number of African elephants has shrunk from about 5 million a century ago to about 400,000 remaining... READ MORE›
TRUMP REVERSES BAN ON ELEPHANT-HUNTING TROPHIES
According to the United Nations, as many as 100,000 African elephants were killed between 2010 and 2012... READ MORE›
ANIMAL ACTIVISTS OUTRAGED BY TRUMP LIFTING BIG GAME TROPHY BAN
According to the Great Elephant Census project, the African elephant population has declined 6 percent in Zimbabwe in recent years... READ MORE›
LIONS NEXT IN LINE OF FIRE AS US ROLLS BACK CURBS ON AFRICAN HUNTING TROPHIES
The Trump administration's lifting of restrictions on importing elephant body parts from Zimbabwe and Zambia is not the last gift to hunting interests... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP TO ALLOW IMPORTATION OF AFRICAN ELEPHANT BODY PARTS TO 'RAISE MONEY FOR CONSERVATION'
The Trump administration will allow the importation of body parts from African elephants shot for sport... READ MORE›
TRUMP TO LIFT BAN ON IMPORT OF ELEPHANT TROPHIES FROM AFRICA
According to the census, elephants saw substantial declines along the Zambezi River, in Zambia while other areas of that country were stable... READ MORE›
TRUMP REVERSES BAN ON IMPORTING ELEPHANTS KILLED AS TROPHIES
According to the United Nations, as many as 100,000 African elephants were killed between 2010 and 2012... READ MORE›
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REVERSES OBAMA-ERA BAN ON BRINGING TROPHIES FROM ELEPHANT HUNTS TO U.S.
How to treat animal trophies Americans shoot overseas has been a contentious issue for years... READ MORE›
ELEPHANT TROPHIES: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LIFTS BAN ON HUNTERS' PRIZES
The Trump administration is reversing an Obama-era ban on hunters importing trophies of elephants killed in Zambia and Zimbabwe during government-approved big-game expeditions... READ MORE›
TRUMP TO LIFT BAN ON IMPORTING ELEPHANT TROPHIES FROM AFRICA
Zimbabwe's elephant population has declined six percent since 2001 and evidence shows that poaching has increased in areas where trophy hunting is permitted, Pacelle said... READ MORE›
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CECIL THE LION'S KILLER REVEALED AS AMERICAN DENTIST
In early July, I was in Zimbabwe on a bow hunting trip for big game... READ MORE›
BIGGEST ELEPHANT KILLED IN AFRICA FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF CECIL THE LION
Individual elephants such as these should be accorded their true value as a National Heritage and should be off limits to hunting... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE: FOOTAGE SHOWS YOUNG ELEPHANTS BEING CAPTURED IN ZIMBABWE FOR CHINESE ZOOS
In the early morning of 8 August, five elephants were caught in Hwange national park by officials at Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Zimparks ... READ MORE›
XANDA, SON OF CECIL THE LION, 'KILLED BY HUNTER' IN ZIMBABWE
Two years after Cecil the lion was killed by a trophy-hunter in Zimbabwe, prompting global outrage, his son may have met a similar sad end... READ MORE›
SIR ROGER MOORE ON CECIL THE LION
People who get their amusement from hunting and killing defenceless animals can only be suffering from a mental disorder... READ MORE›
SECRET FOOTAGE OBTAINED OF THE WILD ELEPHANTS SOLD INTO CAPTIVITY IN CHINESE ZOOS
Last year more than 30 young elephants were captured from the wild in Zimbabwe and flown by plane to China... READ MORE›
AMERICAN DENTIST REVEALED AS KILLER OF CECIL THE LION IN ZIMBABWE
Authorities in Zimbabwe say Walter Palmer from Minneapolis paid a 55 000 35 000 bribe to wildlife guides to allow him to shoot the lion named Cecil with a crossbow... READ MORE›
ZIMBABWE ELEPHANT HUNTER IDENTIFIED AS GERMAN PROPERTY MOGUL
It was claimed that Mr Schorr was accompanied by a local, experienced professional hunter esteemed by the hunting community for finding his clients large elephants... READ MORE›
'IF WE STOPPED POACHING TOMORROW, ELEPHANTS WOULD STILL BE IN BIG TROUBLE'
Every year, around 100 people and 40 to 50 elephants are killed as a result in India, for example... READ MORE›
CECIL THE LION HUNTER WALTER PALMER FACES CALLS FOR PROSECUTION
US uproar over death of protected animal forces Walter Palmers practice to close, as two others attend Zimbabwean court to face poaching charges... READ MORE›
ZIMBABWE SEEKS EXTRADITION OF MAN WHO KILLED LION
Meanwhile, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the circumstances surrounding Cecil's killing... READ MORE›
STATUS OF JERICHO THE LION DISPUTED
David Macdonald, from the same group, referred to Jericho and Cecil as brothers in a statement Thursday... READ MORE›
AUTHORITIES: JERICHO THE ZIMBABWE LION IS ALIVE
The Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority also released a photograph of Jericho that it said was taken Sunday morning, the Associated Press reported... READ MORE›
OUTCRY FOR CECIL THE LION COULD UNDERCUT CONSERVATION EFFORTS
Trophy hunting is often difficult to detach from an era of unquestioned white privilege in Africa, Mr. Dorrington, 56, said... READ MORE›
KILLING OF CECIL THE LION PROMPTS CALLS FOR EU BAN ON IMPORTING LION TROPHIES
Zimbabwe - along with Namibia, Tanzania and South Africa - is listed as 'positive', ie with a sustainable enough population of lions to accommodate hunting... READ MORE›
AMERICAN HUNTRESS SPARKS FURY BY POSTING SELFIE WITH DEAD GIRAFFE IN SOUTH AFRICA
Her first showed her crouching over the prone form of a massive kudu a kind of African antelope with a white-striped body and spiralling horns... READ MORE›
MUTILATED RHINO TREATED WITH ELEPHANT SKIN BANDAGE
A rhino injured after poachers mutilated its face to pull out its horns is being treated with a bandage made from an unusual source elephant skin... READ MORE›
MAN MAY HAVE PAID $55K TO KILL AFRICA'S MOST FAMOUS LION
A Game of Thrones editor, recently killed by a lioness in South Africa, was raising money to combat poaching... READ MORE›
GERMANY MAY BLOCK IMPORT OF TUSKS FROM GIANT ELEPHANT SHOT BY HUNTER IN ZIMBABWE
Import of trophy tusks from one of africa's largest elephants could be illegal warns germany as reward offered for hunter's identity... READ MORE›
CECIL THE LION'S KILLER WALTER PALMER 'WANTED TO STALK AN ELEPHANT NEXT
It is currently occupied by Honest Ndlovu - who appeared in court alongside Mr Bronkhorst on Wednesday, but has not been charged with illegal hunting... READ MORE›
ZIMBABWE CALLS FOR EXTRADITION OF DENTIST WHO KILLED CECIL THE LION
Muchinguri's remarks come as the White House faces mounting pressure to address a petition for Palmer's extradition to Zimbabwe... READ MORE›
ZIMBABWE'S FAVOURITE LION CECIL KILLED BY HUNTER FROM 'NORTH AMERICA'
The professional hunter admits to killing the lion with a foreign client but insists he did not know it was a well-known lion... READ MORE›
FOOTAGE SHOWS CECIL THE LION'S CUBS ALIVE AND WELL
Zimbabwe hunter Theo Bronkhorst is due to stand trial on September 28 for organising the illegal hunt... READ MORE›
ZIMBABWE DEFENDS PLAN TO SELL 27 ELEPHANTS TO CHINA
A herd of African elephants drinking at a muddy waterhole in Hwange national Park in Zimbabwe... READ MORE›
HOW BIG GAME HUNTING IS DIVIDING SOUTHERN AFRICA
The Zimbabwean government argues that 75 percent of proceeds from trophy hunting goes towards wildlife preservation and anti-poaching initiatives... READ MORE›
'THERE WAS BLOOD IN THE SAND. MY IMMEDIATE RESPONSE WAS ANGER'
And he said that the one positive side of Cecil's death was that it was going to raise important questions about conservation and hunting... READ MORE›
GERMAN HUNTER PAYS $60K, KILLS BIGGEST ELEPHANT SEEN IN DECADES IN ZIMBABWE
A disturbing number of elephants have been killed in Zimbabwe in recent weeks, including the biggest one seen in decades... READ MORE›
DENTIST WHO ILLEGALLY KILLED CECIL THE LION BLAMES LOCAL GUIDES FOR THE SCANDAL
Walter James Palmer of Eden Prairie Minnesota has been named by Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force as the shooter of Cecil a 13-year-old prized lion... READ MORE›
TROPHY HUNTING JUST PART OF THE STORY BEHIND DECLINING LION NUMBERS IN AFRICA
Lion numbers are in steep decline across Africa, but trophy hunting is only partly responsible for the long-term losses, say conservationists... READ MORE›
ROBERT MUGABE ISN'T SLEEPING WHEN HE CLOSES HIS EYES DURING MEETINGS, SPOKESMAN SAYS
If you happen to spot Robert Mugabe with his eyes closed for long periods during a high-level meeting, don't worry... READ MORE›