WWF urges stronger elephant conservation Khmer Times Full coverage Conservation groups want tourists to only watch elephants from a distance. KT/Mai Vireak The World Wide Fund for Nature in Cambodia yesterday urged conservation groups to unite and protect elephants by battling illegal logging and wildlife hunting. WWF Cambodia said that elephants play a crucial role in balancing ecosystems by maintaining biodiversity. It said that elephants continue to face extinction due to habitat destruction and conflict with humans, including poaching. “Together we can save the Asian elephant...

Sealing of illegal resorts at elephant corridor begins Deccan Chronicle Full coverage  Though a couple of resort complex owners showed resistance to the sealing process, officials silenced them with police intervention and proceeded further. OOTY: The 'World Elephant Day', which was observed on Sunday witnessed officials beginning to seal unauthorised resort complexes in the Segur Valley Elephant Corridor in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) buffer zone. The concerned local body officials who issued notices to the 27 unauthorized resort complexes on Friday, asking them to vacate...

  Skin poaching of Asian elephants, a crisis unfolding in Myanmar, could crush the species Science Aug 12, 2018 12:27 PM EDT Editor’s note: This story contains some graphic photos of elephant poaching. Ecologists in Myanmar spend hours and hours fighting through thick vines, forest and bamboo just to find a single Asian elephant. Now, they’re also racing against poachers. Over the last three to four years, poachers have begun taking the elephant’s skin and turning it into ruby red jewelry. The skin is also ground into powder and sold as medicine, according to separate...

  Photo of baby rhino lying near dead mother sparks social media outrage The mother was reportedly shot and killed by poachers for her “double horns”, in the South Africa’s Kruger National Park Injured White Rhino calf next to the slaughtered body of his mum Published: 17:59 September 1, 2018 By Shreya Bhatia, Reader Interactivity Journalist   Dubai: A picture of an injured white rhino calf lying next to the slaughtered body of his mum went viral on social media on Friday. Many “heartbroken” and “speechless” Twitter users shared the picture. The...

  In rhino country, a division to boost conservation efficiency From August 14, the Kaziranga National Park has been split into the Eastern Assam and Biswanath division, with the Brahmaputra coming in between In about a week’s time, an entire forest division in Assam will start moving 160 km northeast. The one-horned rhino of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) is the reason for this “long march”. On August 14, Assam’s Environment and Forest Department issued a notification saying the KNP had been split into two divisions — the existing Eastern Assam Wildlife and the new Biswanath...

Beehive fences and elephants: Tanzanian case study offers fresh insights Earth Touch News Full coverage BY EARTH TOUCH NEWS AUGUST 21 2018 Katarzyna Nowak, University of the Free State When people cultivate food crops on or near wild lands it can be assumed that wild animals will eat them – what’s known as crop-raiding. Farms in the vicinity of protected areas can expect to be visited by a range of wild animals including birds, rodents, and large mammals like monkeys, bushpigs and elephants. Because of their size, elephants are the most conspicuous crop-user...

This month, double your impact for all animals with Paws United for a Cause HSUS News (blog) Full coverage At the Humane Society of the United States, we take on the toughest fights for all animals, and we do our best to live up to an early mission statement of our founders: Every field of humane work – everywhere. From working with state and federal lawmakers to ensure maximum protections for animals, to forging corporate partnerships to reduce animal suffering, to rescuing animals from natural and man-made disasters, to the implementation of programs to reduce the population of homeless...

Suspected Zambian poachers abandon 172 kilograms of elephant tusks in Zimbabwe The Global Dispatch Full coverage A group of suspected Zambian poachers have abandoned 172 kilograms of elephant tusks following a skirmish with Zimbabwean game rangers inside the world-acclaimed Hwange National Park. The seizure was confirmed in a statement issued on August 14 by top Zimbabwean conservationist Trevor Lane of Bhejane Trust, a private voluntary organisation which works the Parks and Wildlife Management Authority of Zimbabwe (ZimParks). Bhejane Trust is based in the resort town of Victoria Falls....