Horn trade pressures some rhinos
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A sharp rise in poaching is placing some rhino populations at risk of extinction, a report says.
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Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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Booming global trade in rare forms of wildlife ranging from tropical fish and trees to African lizards is threatening many of them with extinction, conservation group WWF said on Thursday.
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Five endangered northern white rhinos are to be flown out of DR Congo for fear poachers may wipe them out.
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Scientists show how European fishing policies are driving some of the bushmeat trade in west Africa.
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SOURGOUROU, Niger -- Perched among the top branches of an acacia tree, Hassan Abdoulaye scanned the horizon for the tallest animal on earth. But spotting members of the last wild giraffe herd in West Africa is never easy. They blend in well.
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As the men bumped away from camp in the four-wheel-drive pickup, over rutted dirt roads and through tiny streams, the sun revealed open plains around them, dotted with scrawny oak trees. Paul Tyjewski, Paul Royce and their guide, Kal Katzer, began glimpsing exotic wildlife gathering under the trees, using the cover of daybreak to feed before predators arose. Only, in this instance, the animals' instincts had failed them, since the predators were wide-eyed, eager and getting ever closer with their 7mm Remingtons. In one area, skittish kudu, African antelopes with twisting horns rising two feet out of their skulls, hopped from tree to tree. Nearby, aoudads -- massive versions of sheep from the Barbary rocks of North Africa, with horns curving out and back from their skulls -- playfully butted heads. Katzer pointed out ibex, exotic goats with thick, scaly horns.
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Aerial surveys by the Wildlife Conservation Society have confirmed the existence of more than 1.2 million antelope and gazelle in Southern Sudan.  Many conservationists have thought most wildlife vanished from that region because of a decades-long war.
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The fate of some of the world's animals and plants may be decided at a conference on wildlife trade.
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GABORONE, Botswana  - When Uttum Corea arrived in  Africa from Sri Lanka he was puzzled by the widely held notion  that African elephants could not be tamed.
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The first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in more than 100 years is headed to Indonesia on Tuesday with a single task &#151; to breed and help save the endangered species from extinction.
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With a clash of mallets and the stomping of jumbo feet that shook the earth, the game was under way. Tense commands were shouted by pith helmeted players tied firmly to their two-ton mounts. The beasts collided and the ball disappeared in a forest of elephantine legs, raising some dust and much laughter. We had just witnessed a classic scrum in the whacky sport of elephant polo.
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afrol News, 11 October - Two proposals regarding the international ivory trade today failed to secure a two-thirds majority at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) conference in Bangkok.
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JOHANNESBURG -- The bellowing of a bull before a ritual slaughter is a joyous sign to many South Africans that their ancestors have accepted the animal's sacrifice. But to others, it is the bovine equivalent of a scream of trauma and pain.
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San Francisco officials pondered  on Thursday whether to implement an unprecedented ban of  elephants from its zoo because of concerns about their  conditions in captivity.
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Online auction giant eBay is set to ban ivory trade from its websites, as pressure mounts to eradicate illegal traffic in endangered species from the Internet, participants at the world forum regulating wildlife commerce said Tuesday.
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A massive herd of animals thought to have been wiped out by decades of civil war in Southern Sudan has survived against the odds and could be one of the largest migrations of large mammals on the planet.