What fuels elephant slaughter?

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What fuels elephant slaughter?
Bayoubuzz
DAR AS SALAAM, Tanzania — It is a bloody industry that is emptying the wilderness of a mighty beast — the noble elephant. But for the traders and the poachers behind the slaughter it is, simply, business. The cost of Africa's poaching crisis is huge — but so ...
Minister for Natural Resources and Wildlife, Lazaro NyalanduIPPmedia
Sweeney asks for ban on ivory salesLegislative Gazette

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Bayoubuzz

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Jul

Ivory price surge fuels slaughter of elephants

>The price of ivory taken from elephants slaughtered in Tanzania and other African countries for their tusks has tripled in the past four years in China, the world’s biggest market, according to conservationists.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Feb

Dar keen on global action against elephant slaughter

Tanzania will not apply to sell its stock of elephant tusks, a position which is meant to discourage trade that has fuelled poaching in the country.

 

10 years ago

Fort Mills Times

11 Dec

Elephant Slaughter, Corruption, and Illegal Ivory Trade Trigger ...

Elephant Slaughter, Corruption, and Illegal Ivory Trade Trigger ...
Fort Mills Times
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today appealed to Secretary of State John Kerry and Dana J. Hyde, the Chair and CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), to defer approval of additional aid funding of up to $450 ...
Elephant Poaching Epidemic Prompts Objections by The Environmental ...PR Newswire (press release)
Tanzanian police seize more than 200 elephant tusk...

 

10 years ago

Michuzi

World Elephant Day: Conserve and protect the Elephant from the numerous threats it faces

The world is presently witnessing brutality & annihilation of one of the most charismatic mammals on earth, the African Elephant at a shocking rate in human history. Poaching, habitat loss and other cruelty are alarming. Tanzania being a treasure of elephants in Africa has recently revealed its catastrophe. 
The recent elephant census conducted in the main elephant ecosystems for seven months consecutively from May to November 2014, indicates   a significant decline of current elephant...

 

11 years ago

BBC

'Ethnic slaughter' in South Sudan

Hundreds of people were killed because of their ethnic group after South Sudan rebels seized the oil hub of Bentiu last week, the UN says.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Muslims in CAR 'face slaughter'

The UN says it is trying to evacuate 19,000 Muslims from the Central African Republic, as they face getting killed by Christian militia.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Rwanda: 100 days of slaughter

How Rwanda's genocide happened

 

11 years ago

BBC

S Sudan rebels deny slaughter claim

Rebels in South Sudan deny a UN report that they killed hundreds of civilians after taking control of the oil hub, Bentiu, last week.

 

5 years ago

BBC

25 Feb

Kenya bans commercial slaughter of donkeys

Their population has fallen sharply since Kenya began exporting donkey meat and hide to China.

 

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