Elephants could disappear from one of Africa’s most important wildlife reserves within six years unless industrial scale poaching is stopped and mining is brought under control, the WWF has said.

Five elephants were killed last week by poachers using cyanide in Matabeleland North, Forestry Commission information and communications manager Ms Violet Makoto has said.

Tshwane - Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa has condemned the poaching of two rhino at the Rietvlei Nature Reserve.

Drones could soon be deployed to keep an eye on wild animals and poachers in forest areas with officials successfully carrying out field trials with five miniature unmanned aerial vehicles in the M

President Uhuru Kenyatta has said he will be taking the fight against trade in ivory to South Africa, a nation that is strongly opposed to destruction of illegal ivory stockpiles.

The illegal wildlife trade goes far beyond the dreadful story of ivory poaching.

After animal rights activists filed an online petition, American online retailer Amazon agreed to stop their sales of animal specimen and hunting equipment which are banned under the Wildlife Prote

The poaching and illegal trade of thousands of species across the global present real environmental dangers and undermine the rule of law, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said