Tag Archives: Elephant

Malawi reserve resurrected by project

January 4, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Majete Wildlife Reserve – Antelope, elephants, leopards and lions are grazing and reproducing again in a reserve in Malawi, resurrected through a repopulation project of biblical proportions. In only eight years, South African NGO African Parks Network reintroduced over 2 … read more »

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Kenya seizes container with 87 elephant tusks

November 26, 2011 by benim

Kenyan authorities have seized a container loaded with 87 elephant tusks and disguised as soapstone carvings destined for Hong Kong, a customs official said. The 20-foot container was impounded at a depot in Nairobi. As it was being inspected for … read more »

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Heat Wave Kills More Than 77 Elephants in Zimbabwe

November 24, 2011 by benim

More than 77 elephants have died in a three-month heat wave that has dried up watering holes in western Zimbabwe, wildlife authorities said Wednesday Rangers in the Hwange National Park have counted 18 calves and 21 adolescent elephants among the … read more »

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Elephant kills SA man in Botswana

November 24, 2011 by benim

Cape Town – An estate agent from Knysna has described how her husband was killed by an elephant cow, which she had been photographing only minutes earlier, at a watering hole on a game farm in Botswana. Ling Dobson told … read more »

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Cameroon, Chad sign pact to fight elephant poaching

August 4, 2011 by benim

Cameroon and Chad have signed an accord to ramp up efforts to fight poachers who kill hundreds of elephants a year in a protected park on their common border, ministers from both nations said. Both central African countries suffer from … read more »

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Kenya to burn ivory stockpile

July 14, 2011 by benim

Kenya will next week burn nearly five tonnes of ivory poached in eastern and southern Africa and stockpiled for nearly a decade, an official announced Thursday. The 4.967 tonnes (10,950 pounds) of elephant tusks were seized in Singapore in 2002, … read more »

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