The world’s leading e-commerce, technology and social media companies are joining forces in a global effort to stop wildlife traffickers from trading endangered species, a wildlife protection organ

Poaching and habitat loss have reduced forest elephant populations in Central Africa by 63 percent since 2001.

The continued poisoning of species of critically endangered vultures will soon see them extinct, four organizations warned yesterday.

Three Francophone countries have joined the Elephant Protection Initiative, an Africa-led conservation initiative to eradicate ivory trade and stop the slaughter of the continent’s elephants by poa

An initiative designed to protect environmental defenders around the world from threats, intimidation, harassment and murder was launched Tuesday by the United Nations Environment Program.

South African ranchers launched an online market for rhino horn on Monday, saying the open trade would help squeeze poachers out of the business.

Lusaka — Zambia has launched drones surveillance in its national parks to curb poaching.

Forty-two-year old John Matuku, a peasant in Mutha, Kitui County, has been burning charcoal all his adult life.

A court in the Republic of Congo has convicted three men of killing elephants for their tusks. They were handed five-year prison sentences and fined $10,000 each.

Cameroon says a wave of attacks by armed elephant poachers has killed at least eight soldiers and rangers in a northern national park.