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The latest edition of the BBC's 'Panorama' documentary series casts a disturbing eye over the trade in ivory, and the future, or otherwise, of the elephant.
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Elephant poaching continues to be a major problem in Africa's national parks. To combat this a new initiative is being tried out at the Virunga National Park. This involves the use of specially trained bloodhounds to help wardens to track down poachers.
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Los Angeles -
As part of a nationwide, multi-agency effort to tackle black rhino horn smuggling, seven people have been arrested in the US. The latest, taken into custody last night at Los Angeles International Airport, was a Chinese national.
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Cape Town -
The onslaught against South Africa's rhinos continues with poachers darting and de-horning two white rhinos on Sunday night leaving the animals bleeding and in a life-threatening condition.
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Chhouk, a now 5-year-old bull elephant rescued in 2007 in the Cambodian jungle, was profiled recently by NBC News; alone and helpless after a chunk of his left front foot at least six inches long was lost to a poacher's trap, he almost died.
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New Delhi -
The black-naped hare, or the Indian hare, is so common in the wild in India that it is seen as a species of Least Concern by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and accorded least protection by India’s Wildlife Protection Act.
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Stockholm -
More than half of all Swedish wolf deaths are the result of illegal poaching, with two-thirds of the poaching going undetected and without the mistreatment in the last ten years, the wolves’ population could be four times greater, a new study shows.
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International crime syndicates are teaming up with poachers in South Africa, leading to continued slaughtering of rhinos with an added twist of using AK-47 assault rifles, night-vision goggles and taunts as rhino horn’s price exceeds the price of gold.
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According to South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Brigadier General Koos Liebenberg, incidents of poaching have dropped significantly since the start of Operation Corona in the Kruger National Park in March this year.
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A special force is being set up in Bangladesh to save animals such as the Royal Bengal Tiger, amid evidence that poachers now pose an increased threat to the big cats.
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Elephant poaching in Africa is on the rise despite an international 23-year ban on the trade in ivory
Four people working in South Africa's Kruger National Park are arrested in connection with rhino poaching, the country's national parks body says.
The Democratic Republic of Congo employs a new canine unit after a spate of elephant poaching incidents at the Virunga National Park.
Len Goodman has blasted Simon Cowell for poaching Alesha Dixon and signing her for the X Factor.
The threat rhinos face from poachers in some parts of Africa and Asia is now spreading to the UK.
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