Citizens Against Poaching

07/08/2017

E-commerce company Rakuten Inc. has banned the sale of ivory items at its shopping site amid criticism from environmental activists that illegal trade in i

07/06/2017

Poaching never pays. Just ask this guy.

07/06/2017

Rangers and anti-poaching unit investigations led them to find the dead Rhino's in Mbhuzane area.

07/06/2017

More than seven tonnes of ivory worth over US$9 million was seized in Hong Kong, officials said Thursday, the largest bust of its kind in the city in three decades.

07/06/2017

Three endangered Key deer rescued

Early Sunday morning, a car with a broken taillight was pulled over by a Monroe County Sherriff’s deputy. He contacted us when he discovered endangered Key deer bound with heavy twine in the vehicle. When our officer arrived on scene, he found two struggling hogtied Key deer in the back seat and another in the trunk of the car. Backup arrived along with a USFWS officer and they worked quickly to document the scene, gather evidence, safely untie and evaluate the endangered animals. In order to prevent further stress to the deer, all three were released back into the wild. Two of the deer ran off, and wellness checks are being conducted by USFWS on the third. The two men in the vehicle were arrested on multiple charges, including felonies and misdemeanors for injuring an endangered species, take of deer out of season and animal cruelty. They were booked into Monroe County Jail.

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Thanks to County Sherriff’s Deputy Hopp, FWC Officer Wagner, Officer Rubenstein and Lieutenant Haney, and Officer Brierley for the rescue!

07/05/2017

Police and additional Conservation Officers with the Department of Natural Resources were on patrol at the Grand Haven State Park Tuesday -- they were working to keep alcohol off the beach.

07/05/2017

Senate Bill 2647 (Act 125), is described as the most comprehensive US state law targeting the illegal wildlife trade.

07/05/2017

ERONGO police are hunting for suspected poachers who killed a pregnant rhino cow on a game lodge near Omaruru over the weekend.

07/05/2017

A Kansas game warden is trying to find the owner of an “expensive-looking ring,” found at Olpe City Lake, about 10 miles south of Emporia.

07/05/2017

07/05/2017

According to an official DNR report, the incident occurred during Memorial Day weekend when Mark Siemen, a conservation officer in DNR District 6, was parked in his patrol truck on the side of a road.

07/03/2017

NAIROBI, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan police on Tuesday arrested six suspects after being found with 216 kilograms of ivory worth 210,000 U.S. dollars in a house in Utawala residential area, Nairobi.

07/03/2017

British troops are being deployed to catch elephant poachers in Africa as part of the fight against terrorism. UK soldiers have been stationed in Gabon to protect rare forest elephants from hunters who slaughter the animals for their ivory and use the profits to fund extremism across the continent.

06/26/2017

Two dead rhino have been found at the farm of a Zimbabwe government minister, a report says. The minister said she was shocked by news of the discovery but claimed it was the work of her white neighbours.

06/26/2017

Previously convicted of poaching in Alberta, Gerard Visneskie also handed four-year hunting ban

06/26/2017

New Mexico authorities have seized 17 illegal game animal heads while serving search warrants at multiple locations in Farmington.

06/26/2017

Fish and Wildlife officers in Magoffin County have taken a significant step forward in the fight against poaching. And, it came by way of a video posted on social media. EKB News reporter Shannon Deskins has the details.

06/21/2017

Investigators have linked the disappearance of two men to a poaching cartel involving a senior Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) ranger

06/21/2017

GREEN RIVER REGION — The Green River Region has 11 law enforcement officers, including seven district game wardens, two regional game wardens, one access coordinator,...

06/20/2017

Ministry of Economy completed 2.5 year investigation with help of US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wisconsin Conservation Officer Service, forensic analysis experts and witnesses from Wisconsin. It re…

06/20/2017

officers on surveillance at the Nanticoke River Oyster Sanctuary charged a Wicomico County man with illegal harvesting and public health violations.

06/19/2017

Windhoek-The newly signed Nature Conservation Amendment Act will empower the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration to ban entry into Namibia of foreign nationals involved in wildlife crimes related to the possession and dealing in elephant and rhino products, after they serve their prison terms.

06/12/2017

A cross-border task force has arrested several key members of an ivory smuggling pipeline that covertly moved tons of elephant tusks from Africa to Asia.

06/07/2017

Police have arrested 50 suspects and recovered 13 rhino horns, two elephant tusks and close to 20 hunting rifles.

06/05/2017

A court in Cameroon has slammed a circa US$ 500000 (FCFA 253 million) on two convicts found guilty of trafficking 159 elephant tusks. The ruling is seen as one of the most severe related to wildlife crime ever passed by a law court in Cameroon.

06/05/2017

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources announced the conviction of 25 people, including 20 juveniles, in Muskingum County on deer poaching charges.

06/05/2017

Game wardens in Montana and New Mexico need your help finding those responsible for elk poaching in their respective states. In Montana, authorities are investigating the shooting of a cow elk and the removal of its backstraps along the Clark Fork River near Garrison in the west-central part of the…

06/05/2017

The incident occurred near the Pine River in Lake County.

06/01/2017

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ordered an investigation into possible collusion between the country's wildlife agency and two Chinese diplomats in the trafficking of ivory.

06/01/2017

Judges may set bonds over $1 million for serious crimes such as murder, high-profile cases, or for defendants who present a serious flight risk. Jorge Vargas simply got caught with some undersize lobster tails, so why did a judge set his bail at a hefty $1.4 million? Well, Vargas was...