http://www.mail.com/subjects/12846-animal-poaching-smuggling.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/12846-animal-poaching-smuggling.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2081770-elephant-protectors-kenya-arrested-with-ivory.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities say that two employees of an elephant conservation group in one of Kenya's most popular wildlife parks have been charged with ivory smuggling. The Amboseli Trust for Elephants confirmed the charges in a statement Monday. The group said it is confident that an investigation will exonerate the two, a mother and a son. A spo... Mon, 13 May 2013 14:20:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2081770-elephant-protectors-kenya-arrested-with-ivory.html 2013-05-13T14:20:47Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2068894-wwf-seleka-rebels-car-invade-elephant-park.html DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The WWF said in a statement that suspected poachers belonging to the Seleka rebel group have entered one of Africa's most unique elephant habitats in the Central African Republic, and park guards saw them shooting in the direction of elephants. According to the WWF, a group of 17 armed men who presented themselves as belonging to Cen... Tue, 07 May 2013 17:26:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2068894-wwf-seleka-rebels-car-invade-elephant-park.html 2013-05-07T17:26:22Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2066160-chinese-actress-feeds-kenyas-orphan-elephants.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Chinese actress Li Bingbing is in Kenya to bring attention to the growing problem of elephants slaughtered for the international ivory trade. Bingbing on Tuesday urged governments and consumers to combat the illegal wildlife trade. She told a news conference that Africa's poaching crisis raises major concerns about the survival of el... Mon, 06 May 2013 15:27:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2066160-chinese-actress-feeds-kenyas-orphan-elephants.html 2013-05-06T15:27:24Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2058390-expert-rhino-population-wiped-mozambique.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Mozambique's rhinoceros population was wiped out more than a century ago by big game hunters. Reconstituted several years ago, the beasts again are on the brink of vanishing from the country by poachers seeking their horns for sale in Asia. A leading expert told The Associated Press that the last rhino in the southern African nation ha... Thu, 02 May 2013 16:21:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2058390-expert-rhino-population-wiped-mozambique.html 2013-05-02T16:21:09Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2044164-central-african-republic-elephant-poaching-rises.html DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Elephant meat is flooding food markets in villages near a famed wildlife reserve in Central African Republic one month after rebels believed to be involved in poaching overthrew the government, conservationists said Thursday. The Dzanga-Sangha reserve in the rainforests of southwestern Central African Republic has been home to more t... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:14:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2044164-central-african-republic-elephant-poaching-rises.html 2013-04-25T19:14:30Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2042206-7-charged-with-smuggling-fish-bladders-to-china.html SAN DIEGO (AP) — Seven people have been charged with smuggling bladders from an endangered fish in what authorities said Wednesday may be a growing international practice in which the bladders are sold for up to $20,000 each to be used in a highly desired soup. U.S. border inspectors in Calexico have seized 529 bladders since February that they believe we... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:51:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2042206-7-charged-with-smuggling-fish-bladders-to-china.html 2013-04-24T23:51:23Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2041144-south-africa-fight-rhino-poaching-escalates.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A U.S. firm recently gave smart phones to some game rangers in South Africa to help them track poachers who kill rhinos for their horns. An anti-poaching ad campaign in Vietnam, a key illegal market, shows rhinos with human hands or feet in place of horns, which are made from the same material as fingernails and toenails. Despite these... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:48:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2041144-south-africa-fight-rhino-poaching-escalates.html 2013-04-24T10:48:11Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2036500-rhino-conservationist-dies-south-africa.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A game reserve in Kenya plans to hold a memorial service next month for Anna Merz, a conservationist who sought to protect the rhinoceros from systematic poaching that has severely depleted its numbers in Africa. Merz died in a South African hospital on April 4 at the age of 83, the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy said. It described her as a... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:35:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2036500-rhino-conservationist-dies-south-africa.html 2013-04-22T15:35:36Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2007112-india-use-drones-to-protect-rhinos-poachers.html GAUHATI, India (AP) — Wildlife authorities are using aerial drones to oversee a sprawling natural game park in northeastern India to protect the one-horned rhinoceros from armed poachers. Security officers conducted flights of the unmanned aircraft over the Kaziranga National Park on Monday and will fly drones at regular intervals to prevent rampant poach... Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:35:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2007112-india-use-drones-to-protect-rhinos-poachers.html 2013-04-09T03:35:01Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1989208-south-africa-5-killed-helicopter-crash.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Five South African air force members died in the weekend crash of a helicopter that was patrolling in an anti-rhino poaching operation, the South African military said Sunday. The crash happened Saturday evening in South Africa's Kruger National Park and that the crew was among those killed, the military said. The helicopter was on a s... Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:04:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1989208-south-africa-5-killed-helicopter-crash.html 2013-03-31T11:04:08Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1979324-chimps-gorillas-apes-lost-to-trade.html BANGKOK (AP) — The multibillion-dollar trade in illegal wildlife — clandestine trafficking that has driven iconic creatures like the tiger to near-extinction — is also threatening the survival of great apes, a new U.N. report says. Endangered chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos are disappearing from the wild in frightening numbers, as private ow... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:58:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1979324-chimps-gorillas-apes-lost-to-trade.html 2013-03-26T06:58:19Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1940334-meeting-affect-worlds-species.html Elephants, rhinos, sharks and manta rays are among the animals that could be getting more international protection at the triennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Polar bears have already lost out, and for animals such as the crocodile the push is actually for fewer restrictions. CITES (pron... Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:54:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1940334-meeting-affect-worlds-species.html 2013-03-08T09:54:02Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1935386-ivory-trade-nations-face-threat-sanctions.html BANGKOK (AP) — Top conservation organizations warned Wednesday that the illegal ivory trade is hastening the decline of Africa's already endangered elephant population, and said they are ready to punish nations that are lax in fighting the problem. "Globally, illegal ivory trade activity has more than doubled since 2007, and is now over three times larger... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:21:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1935386-ivory-trade-nations-face-threat-sanctions.html 2013-03-06T15:21:15Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1932638-online-ivory-trade-threatens-africas-elephants.html BANGKOK (AP) — Conservationists say there's a new threat to the survival of Africa's endangered elephants that may be just as deadly as poachers' bullets: the black-market trade of ivory in cyberspace. Illegal tusks are being bought and sold on countless Internet forums and shopping websites worldwide, including Internet giant Google, with increasing freq... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:52:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1932638-online-ivory-trade-threatens-africas-elephants.html 2013-03-06T03:52:27Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1931854-group-google-shopping-ads-fuel-ivory-trade.html BANGKOK (AP) — A conservation group claims that Google has something in common with illicit ivory traders in China and Thailand: It says the Internet search giant is helping fuel a dramatic surge in ivory demand in Asia that is killing African elephants at record levels. The Environmental Investigation Agency, a conservation advocacy group, said in a stat... Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:08:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1931854-group-google-shopping-ads-fuel-ivory-trade.html 2013-03-05T11:08:52Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1927966-thailands-prime-minister-vows-to-ivory-trade.html BANGKOK (AP) — Facing the possibility of sanctions, Thailand's prime minister vowed for the first time to work toward ending her country's trade in ivory. But she gave no timeline for implementing a domestic ban, and conservationists warned that the unprecedented slaughter of elephants in Africa would continue until she does. Thailand's internal ivory tra... Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:57:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1927966-thailands-prime-minister-vows-to-ivory-trade.html 2013-03-04T00:57:01Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1926634-ahead-cites-pressure-to-ban-thai-ivory-trade.html BANGKOK (AP) — You can buy it freely in urban markets and rural stalls set up at elephant shows in Thailand every day: ivory, carved into everything from intricate statuettes of the pachyderm-headed Hindu deity Ganesh that go for more than $1,000 a piece to tiny tusk pendants worth less than $10. But the thriving trade here, conservationists say, is helpi... Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:13:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1926634-ahead-cites-pressure-to-ban-thai-ivory-trade.html 2013-03-02T11:13:49Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1893518-ny-man-prison-time-fine-rhino-horn-buy.html NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City antiques dealer who admitted he illegally bought rhinoceros horns has been sentenced to six months in prison. David Hausman also was fined $28,000 in federal court on Thursday for breaking laws intended to protect endangered black rhinos. The Manhattan resident said in pleading guilty last summer he knew the horns needed to... Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:51:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1893518-ny-man-prison-time-fine-rhino-horn-buy.html 2013-02-15T03:51:43Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1893372-yao-talks-animal-rights-zoo-visit.html HOUSTON (AP) — Yao Ming fed a giraffe, petted a rhino and watched an elephant do a headstand during a visit to the Houston Zoo on Thursday. The former Houston Rockets center, in town in advance of this weekend's All-Star festivities, has become increasingly active in animal-rights causes since he retired from basketball because of repeated injuries in Jul... Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:25:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1893372-yao-talks-animal-rights-zoo-visit.html 2013-02-15T00:25:27Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1890408-3-charged-smuggling-horns-endangered-rhinos.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Three people have been charged with participating in an international smuggling ring that traffics in the horns of endangered black rhinos. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Justice Department have launched "Operation Crash" using undercover agents and electronic surveillance in an effort to stop the black market trade in rhino horn... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:18:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1890408-3-charged-smuggling-horns-endangered-rhinos.html 2013-02-13T23:18:21Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1888662-south-africa-96-rhinos-poached-2013.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African authorities say at least 96 rhinoceros have been killed so far this year, as rampant poaching for their horns to sell to buyers in Asia continues. South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs released the tally Wednesday. The statistics show the majority of the killings continue in the expansive Kruger National Park... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:03:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1888662-south-africa-96-rhinos-poached-2013.html 2013-02-13T12:03:20Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1874358-safrica-prosecutor-congo-rebels-wanted-coup-war.html PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Nineteen alleged members of a Congolese rebel group — including one U.S. citizen — sought outside help in their effort to overthrow Congolese President Joseph Kabila, offering mining rights in their resource-rich country in exchange for weapons and training, a prosecutor said Thursday. But those the 19 found in South Africa t... Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1874358-safrica-prosecutor-congo-rebels-wanted-coup-war.html 2013-02-07T13:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1874644-konys-lra-killing-fewer-civilians-group-finds.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, the shadowy group of militants that has terrorized Central Africa for years, killed far fewer civilians in 2012 than in the two previous years, a U.S.-based group that tracks the LRA said Thursday. President Barack Obama sent 100 U.S. advisers to help in the hunt for Kony and the LRA in late 2011... Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1874644-konys-lra-killing-fewer-civilians-group-finds.html 2013-02-07T12:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1859200-57-rhinos-killed-south-africa-this-year.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Officials in South Africa say that 57 rhinos have been killed by poachers across the country so far this year. The Department of Environmental Affairs said Thursday that recent floods in Kruger National Park, thick vegetation and two weeks of bright moonlight contributed to the high number of deaths. The department said 18 suspected po... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1859200-57-rhinos-killed-south-africa-this-year.html 2013-01-31T14:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1858422-cyprus-jobless-turn-to-illegal-songbird-trapping.html NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — It's just before first light and the bird-catcher strings nets among the orange, pomegranate, fig and carob trees in his orchard. The sound of chirping emanates from inside a massive carob — a trick sent from speakers to attract tiny songbirds. By mid-morning, the man disentangles about a half-dozen blackcaps, snaps their necks with his teeth and drops... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1858422-cyprus-jobless-turn-to-illegal-songbird-trapping.html 2013-01-31T07:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1831804-south-africa-vets-struggle-to-treat-hurt-rhinos.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A high-value target survives two attempts on her life. After recovering from multiple gunshot wounds, she is secretly moved to an undisclosed location in hopes that the killers won't track her down again. This isn't a Hollywood thriller about a hunted witness in a police protection program. It is the tale of Phila, one of a growing num... Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1831804-south-africa-vets-struggle-to-treat-hurt-rhinos.html 2013-01-19T12:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1826910-kenya-study-big-jump-elephant-poaching-deaths.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A 14-year study of a nearly 1,000 elephants in Kenya shows an alarming death rate among older males — those with large, valuable tusks — and an acceleration in poaching deaths, the group Save The Elephants said Thursday. The study said that in 2000 the region of Samburu had 38 known elephant males over 30 years of age. But 2011 only fi... Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:41:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1826910-kenya-study-big-jump-elephant-poaching-deaths.html 2013-01-17T11:41:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1824374-638-illegal-elephant-tusks-kenyan-port.html MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Custom officials seized 638 pieces of illegal elephant ivory estimated to be worth $1.2 million at Kenya's main port, evidence of what wildlife officials described Wednesday as a growing threat to East Africa's elephants. The ivory was in a container destined for Indonesia and was discovered late Tuesday, said Gitau Gitau, the Kenya... Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1824374-638-illegal-elephant-tusks-kenyan-port.html 2013-01-16T13:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1810550-indian-park-battles-poachers-targeting-rhino-horn.html KAZIRANGA, India (AP) — Out of the early morning mists and tall grass of northeast India emerges a massive creature with a dinosaur-like face, having survived millions of years despite a curse — literally on its head. As elephant-borne riders approach, the formidable hulk sniffs the air for danger, then resumes its breakfast.      This is Kaziranga, refug... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1810550-indian-park-battles-poachers-targeting-rhino-horn.html 2013-01-10T06:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1804686-poachers-kill-11-elephants-kenyan-wildlife-park.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenya Wildlife Service says its rangers are pursuing a poaching gang believed to have killed 11 elephants for their ivory tusks. KWS said Monday that an entire family of elephants died in the gunfire attack on Saturday. The poachers chopped off the elephants' tusks and carted them away. KWS believes a gang of 10 was responsible f... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:41:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1804686-poachers-kill-11-elephants-kenyan-wildlife-park.html 2013-01-07T18:41:00Z