We were back in the W National park of Niger in Mars after one of the Lion Squad team leaders died of typhoid. But this was not the only tough moments we had to deal with in the Nigerien bush as a male elephant was killed by a poacher, here is what happened. One day, […]
In september 2016, a Wildlife Angel team flew to Namibia for an anti-poaching training operation. The goal of this trip was to train a group of rangers coming from different reserves of the country. We gathered in Wameru, a reserve where you can meet the largest population of namibian white rhinos. There, the participants received […]
A few weeks ago, the governments of Namibia and Zimbabwe petitioned the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to remove elephants from Cites protection, which currently prohibits them from selling elephant ivory. They believe this prohibition, established by the International Convention in 1989, has been an extremely expensive experience without any result. Especially […]
In this Saturday, April 30, 2016, Kenya is preparing for an event concerning the global conservation community to fight against poaching and illegal ivory trafficking. Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s president, decided to burn nearly 105 tons of ivory from stockpiles of the country. Elephant poaching Before going into the details of the operation and to […]
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 was organized by Thomson Reuters and the FITS (International Forum for Security Technology) a conference on environmental crime. A crime increasingly worrying From the start, gentlemen Neyret Lawrence, Professor of Law at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, and Damian Martinez, Europe Director of Thomson Reuters, have set the debate by […]
An anti-poaching operation that turned bad An Italian hunting guide, Claudio Chiarelli, on the right of the picture, and his son Max were shot dead in the Mana Pools National Park in northeastern Zimbabwe. Participating in a joint operation with an anti-poaching unit of the park, they were mistaken for poachers by another unit patrolling […]
The South African government through its Minister of Environment has finally given the statistics that everyone was waiting on rhino poaching in the country. The authorities were pleased to have reversed the slaughter curve thanks to the many radical measures implemented. « We are very pleased to announce that, for the first time in ten years, […]
An NGO in Tanzania announced yesterday that a British helicopter pilot was killed by elephant poachers. Roger Gower, 37, had taken part in an anti-poaching operation with the Tanzanian authorities when the criminals he hunted fired on his unit. Hit by AK47 gunfire while on patrol supporting troops on the ground, he nevertheless managed to […]
Those who are involved each day in the fight against poachers and traffickers of animal species threatened, whether NGOs such as Planet Tiger or Wildlife Angel, often incriminate traditional Chinese medicine as the cause of rhinos and tigers misfortune. Let’s try to really understand the Chinese medicine precepts on the use of animals. We will […]
I mentioned in a previous blog post the links between poaching and terrorism (see the Jihad white gold). The proof is once more made that terrorist networks have deliberately opted for wildlife trafficking to finance their exactions. Joseph Kony, the formidable Ugandan warlord responsible for the abduction of ten thousands of children, and the massacre […]
At least one poacher was shot dead by the BDF (Botswana Defence Force) on the border between the Chobe National park in Botswana and Zimbabwe. Two other poachers managed to escape towards Zambia, where they came from, but they were stopped by the authorities from Zimbabwe. According to the representative of an NGO based in […]
At least two ministers and a senior official in the northern region were probably involved in poaching activities on rhinos and elephants in the Etosha National Park. The Executive Director of Namrights, a Namibian NGO whose mission is to uphold human rights in the country, Phil Ya Nangoloh, said to have made shocking discoveries during […]
The Malawi government has finally decided to officially recognize that elephant poaching has reached unprecedented levels in the country’s national parks and game reserves, causing a sharp decline in the touristic population in these sites. Actually, when you choose Malawi as a tourist destination, it is for the western beaches of the lake, but especially […]
« Sport hunting is not poaching and can help conserve wildlife. » It is a discourse that we hear regularly on the African continent. There was a huge increase of the recent interest in the problem of poaching, mostly from many African stories on macabre rhinos and elephants illegally killed for their horns and tusks. At […]
February 7, 2015, two poachers were killed by members of the Wildlife Management Authority of Zimbabwe and parks, during a clash in the Kapungashiri area on the southern border of the Park national Matusadonha. The public relations director of the Managing Authority of wildlife and parks of Zimbabwe, Caroline Washaya-Moyo confirmed the incident, adding […]
In the Malian Gourma, which includes the regions of Mopti, Timbuktu and Gao, elephants are increasingly rare. Threatened by drought and poaching, there were 550 in the 1970s, and are now more than 354. If they cannot fight against the drought that killed in June twenty-one elephants, residents of northern Mali have decided to organize […]
The gyroplane is perfectly suited for all supervisory practices. Its substantial autonomy and ability to fly low and not too quickly, its simplistic safety profile, all these features combined with low investment and low operating costs, low CO2 emission rate and a controlled noise level, are a flying machine perfectly suited to surveillance operations. Sometimes […]
