Czech officials have arrested 16 members from an international gang that smuggles rhino horns from Africa to Asia. Officers also seized 24 horns worth about $5 million, said police investigator Daniel Zivocky. Customs official Ales Hruby said the gang hired Czech nationals who went to South Africa a
Two Kenya Wildlife Service rangers and one poacher have been killed in two separate gunfights in the Kipini Conservancy in Tana County, Mombasa. The first incident happened when a team of rangers encountered a group of poachers while on a routine patrol. A ranger was killed and the team was forced t
At least 12 animals have died in the past two weeks in one of the oldest zoos in South India, the Thiruvananthapuram zoo.
The animals included two leopard cubs, four spotted deer, two sambar deer, one Malabar giant squirrel and a 13-day-old hippo cub.
The leopard cubs died after being infect
KOLKATA/JALPAIGURI: Two back-to-back tiger sightings inside the Buxa Tiger Reserve this month, claimed the foresters, will silence the critics who have always said that tigers in this north Bengal forest have remained only on paper. But this has once again reinforced the need to lay camera traps
The Macau Customs Service seized 583 elephant tusks, weighing 34 kilograms, with a market value of MOP580,000. The ivory was intercepted when travelling from Hong Kong to Macau. It was being transported by two South Africans that had disguised it as 'chocolate cartons'. “We tried to use pointed o
