Wildlife

Ivory’s curse: the militarization & professionalization of poaching in Africa

Elephant ivory poaching is no longer solely a conservation issue. As poaching reaches levels that threaten to render African elephants near-totally extinct within the next ten years, it also funds a wide range of destabilizing actors across Africa, with significant implications for human conflict.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2014
Varun Vira, Thomas Ewing
C4ADS
Tags:
Poaching, Illegal Trade, Elephant, Wildlife Trade, Africa, Conflicts
Wildlife

Ivory’s curse: the militarization & professionalization of poaching in Africa

Elephant ivory poaching is no longer solely a conservation issue. As poaching reaches levels that threaten to render African elephants near-totally extinct within the next ten years, it also funds a wide range of destabilizing actors across Africa, with significant implications for human conflict.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2014
Varun Vira, Thomas Ewing
C4ADS
Tags:
Elephant, Poaching, Wildlife Trade, Africa, People - Animal Conflicts, Wildlife
Wildlife

Uttarakhand emerging as hotspot of ivory smuggling

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand, known as one of the safest abodes of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) in Southeast Asia, is fast emerging as an important contributor to the illegal trade of ivory across

Publication Date: 
21/02/2014
Vikram Rautela
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Elephant, Wildlife Trade
Wildlife

London Declaration on illegal wildlife trade

This document summarises the conclusions of the London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade held from 12-13 February 2014. It sets out the political commitment reached, and the actions agreed, by the international community, in tackling the illegal wildlife trade and its impacts. Read the text.

Publication Date: 
14/02/2014
CITES
Tags:
Illegal Trade, Wildlife Trade, Endangered Species, Poaching, CITES
Wildlife

If we fail, the African forest elephant will blink out within our lifetimes

An estimated 100 elephants will be killed across Africa today. Poached, in all likelihood, in front of their families. Their tusks ripped off to meet the global greed for ivory.

Publication Date: 
14/02/2014
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
South Africa, Elephant, Poaching, Wildlife Trade, Rhinoceros, China, Tiger, WWF, Wildlife
Wildlife

Wildlife CSI techniques to protect African forest elephants

The Gabonese president Ali Bongo Ondimba will unveil a new initiative to help curb the illegal poaching of African elephants for their ivory. Gabon will utilise forensic DNA techniques from United Kingdom scientists based in Edinburgh to track elephants in an attempt reduce their slaughter due to illegal poaching.

Tags:
Elephant, Gabon, Poaching, United Kingdom (UK), Wildlife Trade, Illegal Trade, Africa
Wildlife

Predicting the distribution pattern of small carnivores in response to environmental factors in the Western Ghats

Due to their secretive habits, predicting the pattern of spatial distribution of small carnivores has been typically challenging, yet for conservation management it is essential to understand the association between this group of animals and environmental factors. We applied maximum entropy modeling (MaxEnt) to build distribution models and identify environmental predictors including bioclimatic variables, forest and land cover type, topography, vegetation index and anthropogenic variables for six small carnivore species in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2013
Riddhika Kalle, Tharmalingam Ramesh, Qamar Qureshi
PLoS ONE
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11
1-13
Tags:
Western Ghats, Fauna, Illegal Trade, Wildlife Trade, Poaching, People - Animal Conflicts, Mudumalai SA
Wildlife

The trophy hunting of African lions: Scale, current management practices and factors undermining sustainability

The trophy hunting of lions Panthera leo is contentious due to uncertainty concerning conservation impacts and because of highly polarised opinions about the practice. African lions are hunted across at least ~558,000 km2, which comprises 27–32% of the lion range in countries where trophy hunting of the species is permitted. Consequently, trophy hunting has potential to impart significant positive or negative impacts on lions. Several studies have demonstrated that excessive trophy harvests have driven lion population declines.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2013
Peter Andrew Lindsey, Guy Andrew Balme, Paul Funston & et al
PLoS ONE
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9
1-11
Tags:
Lion, Africa, Hunting, Wildlife Management, Endangered Species, Wildlife Trade, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Benin, United States Of America (US), European Union (EU)
Wildlife

Country lost 50 tigers in six months, 5 in Madhya Pradesh

Even as India is striving hard to save the big cats, the country has lost fifty tigers so far this year against 72 tiger deaths in 2012.

Heading the list is Karnataka with the loss of 13 tigers till now, followed by eight in Maharashtra, seven in Uttarakhand and five in Madhya Pradesh. Out of the five tiger deaths in Madhya Pradesh, two are from Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, two from Pench Tiger Reserve and one from Katni forest division.

Publication Date: 
07/08/2013
Bagish K Jha
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Tiger, Maharashtra, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Madhya Pradesh, Bandhavgarh NP, Tiger Reserves, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Poaching, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife
Wildlife

The Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2013

This Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2013, introduced by Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan in the Rajya Sabha on 5 August 2013, seeks to further amend the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. It has a provision of imprisonment up to seven years for poaching or hunting of wild animals.

Publication Date: 
05/08/2013
Rajya Sabha
Tags:
Wildlife Act 1972, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Management, CITES, Illegal Trade

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