(EnviroNews World News) — In 2020, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) left the world stunned when the NGO reported that due to human activities, the world had lost 68% of its wildlife in only 50 years. The organization grabbed headlines across the globe again in January 2022, but…
(EnviroNews World News) — Kruger National Park, South Africa — Between 2008 and 2018, poachers killed about 4,000 rhinos in South Africa’s Kruger National Park and its surrounding private reserves. These thugs typically take only the horn to sell for unfounded medicinal use in Asia. They oftentimes leave the…
(EnviroNews World News) — The International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) has recruited women to protect the world’s natural heritage along Africa’s Zambezi River. The Akashinga, or “Brave Ones,” is a privately-funded, highly-trained, vegan group of local women from extremely disadvantaged backgrounds assigned to protect the Lower Zambezi Ecosystem along…
(EnviroNews World News) — The People’s Republic of China (PRC) announced on December 30, 2016, that it would put an end to its ivory trade once and for all. The move is being hailed by conservationists and wildlife advocates across the globe, who say China’s change in policy…
(EnviroNews World News) — Shanghai, China — The largest bust in Chinese history for poached pangolin parts went down on December 10, 2016, in Shanghai, and was announced on December 28 by customs officials. The seizure contained over 6,600 pounds of pangolin scales taken from an estimated 5,000…
(EnviroNews World News) — Honolulu, Hawaii — The world’s largest primate, the mighty Eastern Gorilla (Gorilla beringei), is now “critically endangered” according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). IUCN announced the gloomy news on September 4, 2016, at its own World Conservation Congress in Honolulu,…
(EnviroNews World News) — Nairobi National Park, Kenya — The biggest elephant-ivory bonfire in world history went down in Nairobi National Park in Kenya on April 30, 2016. The country hosted the event in hopes of shocking the world into doing more to help protect the iconic mild-mannered…
(EnviroNews World News) — Mukomuko, Bengkulu — Sumatra, Indonesia — It has been reported from the ground that two Sumatran tiger poachers were taken down by local police in a sting operation in the southwestern provence of Bengkulu, Sumatra, on January 8, 2016. The two men accused of…
(EnviroNews World News) — In what is likely already the largest international media firestorm the world has ever seen over a poached wild animal, stories continue to flood the airwaves from all corners of the globe displaying stunning pictures of the beloved giant Zimbabwean cat, ‘Cecil the Lion.’…
(EnviroNews World News) — Laikipia Kenya — It turns out that poachers can pillage a species right out of existence. That is in essence what has happened to the African northern white rhino, as game officials in Kenya try desperately to breed the last known male on the…