West Africa’s falling fish stocks: Illegal Chinese trawlers, climate change and artisanal fishing fleets to blame

Current west African coastal fishing crisis in the Gulf of Guinea is complex because it has multiple and reinforcing origins

Cocoa beans are in short supply: What this means for farmers, businesses and chocolate lovers

A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana

Israel moots proposal to regulate trade in mammoth ivory

Tel Aviv wants to prevent elephant tusks being sold as mammoth ones globally

CITES CoP 2019: Resolution seeking closure of domestic ivory markets not adopted

30 African countries panned EU, Japan for not closing legal ivory markets

Elephant carcass with missing tusks found in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj

It is the second dead elephant found in Odisha in a week

Tiny thing on eight legs

Ebay bans online ivory trade

Power games

IVORY COAST

Elephant found dead in Odisha’s Angul, tusks missing

The incident comes within days of 7 elephants dying due to electrocution in Dhenkanal

Zimbabwe sold 97 sub-adult elephants to China, UAE

Cash-strapped southern African country earned $2.7 million

IVORY COAST

IVORY COAST

IVORY COAST

Jumbo seizure

Half of Africa’s savanna elephants may disappear in less than a decade

Around 144,000 animals were lost over a seven-year period in 18 African countries

SADC COUNTRIES

THAILAND

Elephant poaching

Hanging in balance: 64% of West African coast highly or very highly vulnerable, shows study

Socio-economic factors, especially human development activity, major contributor to vulnerability  

Africa losing $25-million tourism revenue each year due to elephant poaching

Poachers kill between 20,000-30,000 African elephants each year for illegal ivory trade

Tusker's tragedy

TANZANIA

COP28: Africa set to scale up green growth through Green Industrialisation Initiative

Kenya president launches initiative, striking conversation on finance, investment and collaboration

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