Poachers poison waterholes to kill elephants in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean ivory poachers have in the past two months killed more than 101 elephants by poisoning water holes with cyanide, which according to Zimbabwe’s Environment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere on September 25, 2013, is endangering one of the world’s...

Execute elephant poachers on the spot, Tanzanian minister urges

[M]ore than 1,000 rangers having been killed while protecting animals over the past decade. Tanzania is said to have lost half its elephants in the past three years. [O]ne elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its tusks and they could disappear from the wild by...