Director of Parks and Wildlife Management, Ben Beytell, says some rivers should be closed for normal tourism access as a way of reducing the elephant-human conflict.

Some members are misusing conservancy funds, Environment Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said when she launched the Sobbe Conservancy in the Caprivi Region last week.

The Rwanda Office of Tourism and National Parks (ORTPN) is putting forward a plan to decentralise the tourism development campaign.

A racehorse trainer is concerned about the safety of the animals at the Gold Circle Training Centre in Milnerton after a prize racehorse was stabbed in the neck.

The Serengeti district commissioner has said a hunting company owned by a US investor was asked to help in anti-poaching activities not to take over the responsibility of Government to protect wild animals.

THE shooting of three elephant bulls in the Kunene Region will not put the desert-adapted elephant population at risk, says Environment Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah.

The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said on Sunday it has not yet started implementing any of the 2005 recommendations of the Sadc Taskforce on strategies to control the population of elephants in the region.

The Ministry of Environment and Tourism says Namibia has more elephants now than at any other time in the last 100 years.

A long-standing rift between Mpigi District authorities and the National Forest Authority over the increased degradation of natural forests in the district has taken a new twist with the indefinite suspension of the latter's operations.

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has cautioned the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism against delegating security services to private investors.

In her first whirlwind trip to the Southeast of Cameroon, US Ambassador, Janet Garvey, garnered enough knowledge to conclude that "this is a wonderful landscape and a groundbreaking program." It stands to reason, for the Southeast of Cameroon stands out in ecological importance. It is a natural haven for iconic wildlife species like elephants, gorillas and chimpanzees. After a three-day sojourn in ...

The SWAPO Regional Councillor for the Otavi constituency in the Otjozondjupa Region, Bartholomeus Shangheta, has been fined N$2 000 on a charge of hunting protected game.

Five people have been arrested in connection with the fire outbreak in Akagera National Park which gutted part of the reserve last weekend.

Eco-tourists who dive with sharks off Miller's Point are up in arms after being confronted by the sight of fishermen offloading tons of dead sharks from boats awash with blood.

The accidental killing of over 28 Albatross and Petrel species of seabird by local fisheries has prompted the launch of a new plan of action to help preserve the vulnerable birds.

THREE black rhinoceros carcasses were found last week in a state of decomposition in the Gonarezhou National Park.

Conservationists are now hoping to have all the exotic fallow deer off Robben Island by the end of september.

THE Ministry of Environment and Tourism has placed a moratorium on the sale of carved ivory products with effect from September 1 as a measure to control trade in ivory amulets known as omakipa.

Kenya Wildlife Service officials have intercepted a consignment of 113 live snakes bound for illegal export to Japan through Moi International Airport, Mombasa.

Trade in omakipas (plural for ekipa) and other ivory carvings will not be allowed from September 1 until the law governing controlled wildlife products is in place, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) has announced.

AN elephant was shot dead - allegedly for a local chief's "braaivleis party" - in front of several tourists in the Bwabwata Park in the Caprivi Region last week, causing many of the shocked visitors to cut short their tours.

The Kenya Wildlife Service has released Sh1 million to compensate animal-human conflict victims in Imenti North and Tigania districts.

Namibian Police in the Caprivi have not arrested anyone or opened a case after game meat was found in a bus belonging to the Namibian Police at the Mururani checkpoint east of Rundu on Sunday.

A protracted dispute between the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), tour operators and lodge owners in the Kisoro area has been taken to the high court.

Zimbabwe's once thriving wildlife and tourism industry is under serious threat as authorities continue to kill elephants and other animals at an alarming rate.