Zimbabwe: 14 elephants killed by cyanide poisoning

Zimbabwe will increase the export to China of wildlife, including elephants, to help prevent their deaths during the drought, a minister says.

At least 20 elephants from Zimbabwe are transported to China to be settled in a game reserve, after a controversial sale.

Poachers have killed nearly half of Mozambique's elephants for their ivory in the past five years, a conservation group says.

'30 elephants killed every day in Tanzania'
News24
Dar es Salaam - Poachers are slaughtering Tanzania's elephants for their ivory at such alarming rates that the population could be completely wiped out in just seven years, conservationists told a conference on Friday. The two-day UN-backed conference ...

Man killed by elephants in northern Tanzania's village
GlobalPost
ARUSHA, Tanzania, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- A herd of elephants wreaked havoc in northern Tanzania's district of Longido, killing one person and injuring several others, an official said on Wednesday. James Ole Millya, Longido District Commissioner, told Xinhua ...

Tanzania: 10000 Elephants Killed Annually By Poachers
AllAfrica.com
Tanzania last week reiterated its call to the international community to ban trade on ivory and rhino products in order to counter the escalating poaching of the critically endangered animals. The leading markets of the animal trophies, notably China, Japan, the ...

Conservationists in Zimbabwe say the man who paid $50,000 (£32,000) to kill the country's most famous lion was an American dentist.

>The Government Chemist and Laboratory Agency (GCLA) is preparing guidelines for gold mining companies and dealers on the use, transportation and disposal of cyanide, a chemical which is  used for processing rocks with gold.

The Chinese authorities have ordered the evacuation of residents within a 3km radius of the Tianjin blast site over fears of chemical contamination.The evacuations came after an apparent change in wind direction, and as police confirmed the highly toxic chemical sodium cyanide was found near the site. A man was found alive 50m from the blast core, Xinhua news agency said.Eighty-five people are now known to have died in the giant blasts in the north-east Chinese port on Wednesday.The order...