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By Ruth Maclean and Collins Chilumba Sampa
The New York Times
The hunter heard the helicopter coming. He grabbed his AK-47, he said, and jumped behind a tree. He was on an illegal elephant hunt with a group of men inside North Luangwa National P...
By Nikki Ekstein
If he has his way, Paul Allen will cover 90,000 square miles of African territory with smart sensors and drones by the end of this year to bring hyper-connectivity to Africa’s most remote, wildlife-packed corners. It’s the biggest, tech-focused conservation proj...
Leonardo DiCaprio may have – finally - bagged an Oscar this year for his performance in survival film The Revenant, but his next role everyone's talking about right now is behindthe camera.
If you’re one of Leo’s dedicated 11 million Instagram followers, you’ll be well aware of his involvement in c...
One of the world’s largest — and one of Kenya’s most famous — elephant bulls died recently in an attack by poachers.
At about 45 years old, the elephant, named Satao, was famed for being one of the last “great tuskers” — elephants with long, massive tusks that reach the ground. His impressive...
There are few places in the world that conjure the same kind of imagery as the Chobe National Park in Botswana.
Drifting through the savannas, torrents of water wind-off into a sunlit horizon; cheetahs stalk their prey as flocks of gazelle prance through the long, parched grass; and African elephan...
China’s demand for luxury knickknacks lies beneath some spectacular carnage of late. As we highlighted in August, the illegal ivory trade funds al-Shabaab, the terrorist group behind the Westgate Mall massacre in Kenya late last month. Al-Shabaab finances as much as 40% of its operations&n...
Poachers have likely killed off the last rhinos in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park, according to a park official who spoke with Portugal News. Park director António Abacar said that no rhinos have been sighted in Limpopo National Park since January, "which means that the ones that lived in the pa...
