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Harare - Zimbabwean police on Monday arrested a Chinese national at Harare airport who was found with 100kg of raw and processed ivory in his possession. The 34-year-old was found to have 17 pieces of raw ivory, said Caroline Washaya-Moyo of the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority...

Wildlife trafficking syndicates brazenly sell rhino horn and ivory at Chinese markets in Southern Africa's capital cities, in the face of global attempts to crack down on the illicit trade in endangered species. China is responsible for an estimated 70% of the world trade in ivory, and research...

Pufferfish/Fugu, Japan: Only for the very brave - fugu can be lethally poisonous due to the tetrodotoxin carried in its organs, which can paralyse your muscles - including your lungs and heart. Preparation of fugu is strictly controlled by law and only chefs who have qualified through...

Oslo - Norwegian whale hunters announced a big increase in their annual catch on Wednesday but it remained less than half the limit set by the government. "The hunt has been good this year. We had 17 boats involved and they took 590 whales. That's 125 more than last year," Truls Soloey...

Defence Force soldiers are to be deployed in the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park (HiP), in northern KwaZulu-Natal, to join the fight against rhino poaching. The move is controversial as the military are not meant to operate in civilian matters. Some soldiers are deployed in parks on...

Nairobi - Kenyan wildlife officials arrested an army officer on Wednesday for possession of elephant ivory in a rare crackdown on a fellow government employee. "There is no exception to the law," said Paul Udoto, spokesperson for the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), calling the arrest of the...

Hwange - The stench of rotting elephant carcasses hangs in the air in western Zimbabwe where wildlife officials say at least 91 elephants were poisoned with cyanide by poachers who hack off the tusks for the lucrative illegal ivory market. Massive bones, some already bleached by the...

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Maputo — The Mozambican government is making over sixty million US dollars available over the next five years for the transformation of the coastal zone into poles of development. The project was launched in 2011, focussing on the commercialisation of fishing, the use of refrigeration to...

South Africa's ship register is seen as "uncompetitive", a perception that has resulted in not a single merchant vessel being listed, according to the SA Maritime Safety Authority (Samsa). This has left the country - which relies each year on about 12 000 foreign vessels to carry 96% of its...

Chand baori, Rajasthan, India: Stepwells are wells or ponds which can be reached by descending a set of steps. They're found all over India and are of architectural significance. This is one of the most famous and found in the village of Abhaneri near Jaipur.

The number of rhino killed by poachers in South Africa has hit a new annual record, raising worries of a downward population spiral in a country that is home to almost all of Africa's rhinos. As of the end of September, 704 rhino had been killed by poachers in South Africa, exceeding the annual...

Humpback whales are regular visitors to the turquoise waters of Palma Bay. In this remote and unspoilt corner of northern Mozambique, sleepy fishing villages are tucked between mangroves and the coral reefs teem with marine life. All that is about to change as the "gas men" prepare to move...

While African heads of state made measured long-range commitments to intensify anti-wildlife poaching measures at a UN summit in New York this week, conservation authorities in Zimbabwe were continuing to count the cost of what could be the single worst poaching incident on the continent in...

Hillary Clinton is jump-starting an $80m effort to curb the poaching and trafficking of elephants in Africa.The former secretary of state and her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, say the killing of elephants to sell ivory around the globe has reached a crisis point. The Clinton Global Initiative...

An expert on rhino poaching has described the scourge as a “new form of organised crime” that involves local and international syndicates, conservation officials and diplomats. Professor Moses Montesh, from the College of Law at Unisa, said rhino poaching fatality figures...

Paris - The ancestor of all creatures with jaws and a backbone was not a sleek, shark-like beast but a toothless, armoured fish, said a study on Wednesday that rewrites Man's evolutionary history. Scientists said they had found a 419-million-year-old fish fossil in China which disproves the...

Rhino conservationists are harnessing China’s celebrity power in a bid to cut Asian demand for rhino horn, which has caused record slaughters in South Africa over the past six years. Chinese-American actress Bai Ling is currently touring South African game reserves as part of an awareness...

A South African company has put its money where its mouth is in the fight against rhino poaching that has devastated the animal population. Fair Cape has committed itself to making a 50c donation for every six pack of yoghurt over the next six months to fund anti-poaching activities. "The...

Two 16-year-old youths are missing, presumed drowned, off Camps Bay beach in Cape Town, the NSRI said on Wednesday. "It was confirmed that both 16-year-olds had disappeared beneath the surf," said National Sea Rescue Institute spokesperson Craig Lambinon. He said a group of pupils from RB...