Conservation and environmental news & publications: South Africa
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CITES meeting to address illegal ivory and rhino horn trade
WWF calls on representatives of world governments and other groups attending the CITES meeting in ...
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Rhino horn smugglers given maximum sentence
Two Vietnamese men convicted of attempting to smuggle rhino horns out of South Africa were ...
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Rhino poaching surge continues in 2011
Nearly 200 rhinos have been killed in South Africa during the first half the year, according to ...
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Photos from aerial elephant survey released
The WWF African Elephant Programme and Zambia Country Office, in partnership with the Zambia ...
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Air support for South African rhinos in battle against poachers
Rhinos in a South African game reserve now have extra protection with the arrival of an ultralight ...
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Hearing held in landmark rhino poaching case
Members of a major poaching syndicate are due in a South African court Monday to face charges ...
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Lights out on Bosphorus Bridge marks Earth Hour transition into Europe.
Lights going out on Istanbul’s Bosphorus Bridge was a fitting way to mark Earth Hour’s transition ...
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Experts meet to address rhino poaching crisis
Well-equipped, sophisticated organized crime syndicates have killed more than 800 African rhinos ...
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Rhino poaching continues in South Africa even as arrests increase
Already this year 71 rhinoceros have been killed in South Africa, a figure that amounts to nearly ...
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WWF to move critically endangered rhinos to new habitats
As part of its successful range expansion programme, WWF will translocate an additional 20 black ...
