Crime gangs, horns demand threaten African rhinos
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The rise of organized criminal gangs  trading in rhino horns has boosted poaching in some African  countries, putting the endangered animals at risk, conservation  groups and a U.N. wildlife pact said on Wednesday.
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Nairobi, Kenya  - Amid fears that war could return to Africa&#39;s Great Lakes region following the massacre of 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees in Burundi, the African Union is pressing for the killings to be treated as a terrorist ...
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From rows of planted peppers to smoking "bombs" made of chilies and dung, African farmers are using hot new weapons in their fight against elephant raids.
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Triads are fuelling a trade that has seen a surge in violence in the aready crime-riddled Cape, writes Sam Kiley.
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Sudan faced mounting pressure Thursday to allow a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur or risk sanctions amid calls for Khartoum to hand over two officials wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes.
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Vets at a Berlin zoo have been forced to separate a baby rhino from his mother for fear she may accidentally trample him to death, zoo officials said on Tuesday.
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5 October 2004 - Law enforcement experts are urging stronger action against poachers or smugglers of endangered species, but warn that many countries lack the ability to fight wildlife crimes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today.
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Congo's police and fractious army have been accused of involvement in rampant elephant poaching that threatens to wipe them out from a world heritage site in the east of the former Zaire, a new study has warned.
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Displaced Sudanese women and children ride their donkeys at a camp in Darfur. Picture:Reuters. Children are being targeted in the latest abuses in Darfur, writes Pamela Bone in Addis Ababa.
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Five rare white rhinos due to be airlifted out of lawless northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo before poachers wipe them out must stay put, the government said on Saturday, infuriating conservationists.
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THE parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) have granted Namibia, Swaziland and South Africa permission to hunt five of the once highly endangered black rhino population annually for sustainable utilisation of the
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The hunting of wild animals by hungry refugees in East Africa threatens wildlife populations, say conservationists.
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Heart of barkingness A team of cryptozoologists is headed for the South American jungle to track down a legendary apeman said to terrorise villages and tear out cattle tongues.â¦
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South Africa needs to consider  restarting elephant culls because growing numbers of the mammal  now threaten local habitats, the WWF conservation group has  said.
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South Africa's Kruger National Park elephant population has nearly doubled in recent years, causing heavy habitat destruction and invasion of adjacent farms. Now conservation authorities are considering a plan to kill perhaps thousands elephants to bring the problem under control.
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German animal rights activists have launched a campaign against plans to put up a giant ferris wheel in Berlin, saying it would disturb the sex lives of rhinos in a nearby zoo.
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Science & environment: Demand for food in refugee camps is leading to an unprecedented massacre of local wildlife, new reports claim. Stuart Coles investigates