Legal killings of elephants for sport in northern Tanzania have risen over the last year prompting concerns over a dwindling elephant population. This has led to international conservationist ...
Selous has been decimated by industrial-scale poaching. One of Africa’s oldest reserves could see its elephant population decimated by 2022 if urgent measures are not taken to stem industrial-scale ...
Tanzania (with 60,000 elephants) and neighbouring Kenya (with 35,000) are also badly hit. In Kenya, authorities report having to kill between 50 to 120 elephants a year because they have attacked ...
Population drops by 60% in just five years as ivory poaching surges Tanzania's elephant population has suffered a catastrophic decline in recent years, with numbers plummeting from an estimated ...
[Michael Saitoti, Standard] Monday 12 August is World Elephant Day. Until last November, Kenya and Tanzania have taken a joint policy approach to protect these massive mammals who freely cross our ...