Southern African countries will face an uphill battle to seek approval for the sale of their ivory stocks at the forthcoming international conference on trade in endangered species which will be held in South Africa later this year due to a poaching crisis facing the region. Read More

Recent moves by Kenya to destroy 105 tonnes of ivory and 1.35 tonnes rhino horn with a combined market value of nearly US$200 million in a symbolic gesture aimed at shocking the world into putting an end to the slaughter of elephants tapped into the long – standing nervousness among Sadc countries which argue strongly in favour of using ivory proceeds for the protection and conservation of the region’s rich wildlife resource base. Read More

Environmentalists and wildlife experts in Zimbabwe say they are appalled by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) decision to support a comprehensive global ban on the ivory trade. Read More

African countries must institute coherent wildlife sector reforms that will ensure that they are better positioned to derive maximum benefits from the sustainable protection of their rich wildlife heritage which has come under increasing threat from poaching and trafficking, says a top African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) official. Read More

As India hosts the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties (COP7) which has brought together all 180 parties of the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, millions of tobacco growers have been left to stew over what one sided policies will emerge from the meeting which has deliberately sidelined them. Read More