US Allows Hunters to Import Some Elephant Trophies from Africa

[ad_1] US Fish and Wildlife Service informed some hunters Last month, it would authorize the importation of six elephant booty from Zimbabwe into the United States. African elephant carcasses will be allowed into the country for the first time in five years. The decision reversed an agency-wide hold on the processing of elephant trophy import …

Helped Catch Serial Killers. Could It Stop Poaching Elephant Hunters, Too?

[ad_1] Cambodian law enforcement officials took a lead from investigators at the US Department of Homeland Security. At the freight terminal in Phnom Penh, a cargo container allegedly carrying legally harvested wood from an African country has been emptied for inspection. Authorities opened the large logs and discovered more than a ton of illegal elephant …

Reuniting an Orphaned Elephant and Its Mother, Maybe with DNA and Luck

[ad_1] The elephant was alone and dehydrated when the villagers first found it. It was September 2017 and the motherless mammal wandering around Boromo in Burkina Faso was only 2 or 3 months old. “It was tiny,” said Céline Sissler-Bienvenu, who is now the European disaster response and risk reduction senior program officer for the …