2 suspected poachers are arrested in Nairobi as First Lady launches “Hands...
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View ArticleKenya’s Elephants may be extinct in 10 years
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View ArticleCampaign to save Kenya’s Elephants
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View ArticleKenya Airways backs Anti-poaching Campaign
PRESS RELEASE Kenya Airways backs Anti-poaching Campaign NAIROBI JULY 24, 2013 – Kenya Airways has joined the ‘Hands Off Our Elephants’ campaign that aims at ending elephants poaching and ivory...
View ArticleTogo ivory boss implicates others in trafficking
By ERICK KAGLAN and ROBBIE COREY-BOULET Associated Press LOME, Togo (AP) – For more than three decades, Emile N’Bouke operated a small, unmarked shop on the corner of a busy street in downtown Lome...
View ArticleKWS accuses the rich of poaching (Kenya)
RAPHAEL MWADIME, The Star September 6, 2013 Kenya Wildlife Services has linked influential business people to the illegal ivory trade in the country. KWS spokesperson Paul Mbugua told the Star during...
View ArticleTime for a Hong Kong tusk force to combat illegal ivory trade (China)
Anna Beech, South China Morning Post 06 September, 2013 China is the largest consumer of ivory and its demand is bringing the African and Asian elephants to the point of extinction. According to the...
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WildlifeDirect & Conservation Partners Announce Clinton Global Initiative...
***NEWS RELEASE*** CEO Dr. Paula Kahumbu represents Kenya’s “Hands Off Our Elephants” Campaign in Meeting with Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Commitment’s Goal: Stop the Killing, Stop the Trafficking,...
View ArticleKenya: International March for Elephants Invades New York
BY JAMES MURUA, 17 OCTOBER 2013 The Hands Off Our Elephants campaign, led by Dr Paula Kahumbu, went to New York on October 4 for the International March for Elephants to raise global awareness on the...
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A Map Of the World That Shows the Global Economy Of Elephant Poaching
By Tom McKay The news: After years of stonewalling, China, the world’s largest market for illegal ivory, and 30 other countries have agreed to treat the ivory trade as a serious criminal offense after...
View ArticleChinese arrested with 3kg ivory at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (Kenya)
By CYRUS OMBATI, Standard Digital January 19th 2014 NAIROBI, KENYA: A Chinese national was Saturday arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after being found with 3.4 kilograms of ivory....
View ArticleIvory trade: A security as well as an environmental concern
Voice of Russia February 3, 2014 Top level government representatives from 50 countries will gather this month to apply pressure on China to clamp down on ivory consumption within its borders. A...
View ArticleInfluential Chinese business leaders say no to ivory
February 2014 Wildlife Extra News More than 30 business leaders in China have taken a public stand against the ivory trade by signing a pledge to never purchase, possess, or give ivory as a gift. The...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Eyes in the Court transform poaching rates in Kenya Nairobi, 31 May 2016: WildlifeDirect announces the launch of its second Courtroom Monitoring Report, detailing the outcomes of wildlife crime trials...
View ArticleAfrican Nations Call On the World to Help Them Save African Elephants
Montreux, 29 June 2016: The African Elephant Coalition (AEC), comprising 29 African countries, are calling on the world to join them in saving elephants. The Montreux Manifesto, agreed at a meeting of...
View ArticleCELEBRATING WORLD ELEPHANT DAY IN SAMBURU WITH KENYAN CHILDREN
Nairobi, 09 August 2016: This week, WildlifeDirect is celebrating World Lion Day and World Elephant Day by taking 100 children to Samburu National Reserve for a 3 day camping expedition from 12th -14th...
View ArticleAfrican, Japanese and international conservation NGO’s call on President...
Nairobi, 26 August 2016: Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) is a conference held regularly with the objective “to promote high-level policy dialogue between African leaders...
View ArticleTracking Technology Deployed to Help Keep Giant Tusker from Crops
Nairobi September 16, 2016: One of Kenya’s largest tuskers has been fitted with a GPS tracking collar to allow Kenya Wildlife Service and their non-governmental partners to prevent him from raiding...
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