Representing the SADC
Everybody who visits Kasanka National Park in Zambia during “bat season” agrees that the evening emergence of African straw-coloured fruit bats from their roost site is one of the wildlife wonders of the world. The bats (Eidolon helvum) arrive at Kasanka every year around October. The numbers swell rapidly until they peak in November. By … Read More “Zambia: World’s Biggest Bat Colony Gathers in Zambia Every Year – We Used Artificial Intelligence to Count Them” »
Blantyre, Malawi — Residents in areas surrounding Malawi’s Kasungu National Park are criticizing two wildlife organizations for allegedly enabling deadly elephant incursions. In June 2022, the African Parks Organization and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) funded the relocation of 250 elephants to restock the partly-fenced park despite protests. The lack of fencing has … Read More “Malawi: Villagers in Central Malawi Face Attacks From Elephants” »
In what will likely be the world’s largest mass translocation of rhinos, conservation groups are planning to move 300 rhinos a year for the next 10 years to locations across South Africa and elsewhere on the rest of the continent. Conservation groups in at least four African nations (Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Kenya) have offered … Read More “Africa: Four African Nations Line Up to ‘Rewild’ Massive Herd of ‘Homeless’ South African Rhinos” »
Chinese national, Bin Liu, is finally expected to begin defending himself before the Lilongwe Chief Resident Magistrate Court on Friday, 19th May 2023, almost a year after the court found him with a case to answer over wildlife crime charges and illegally acquiring a firearm. Following the court ruling in May 2022, Liu’s lawyers asked … Read More “Malawi: Chinese National Bin Liu Set to Enter Defence in Mk10m Wildlife Crime Case” »
CNN — Ten lions have been killed in southern Kenya this past week, including six on Saturday alone, as human-wildlife conflict escalates in the region, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). This is “an unusually large number of lions to be killed at one go,” a spokesperson for the KWS told CNN on Sunday. … Read More “Ten lions killed in Kenya as conflict between humans and wild animals worsens | CNN” »
Senior Resident Magistrate Wanangwa Nyirenda on Thursday, December 1st 2022, sentenced Zambian national Kelby Roy Malambo to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour for the three charges he faced in the MK53m wildlife crime case involving elephant ivory. Magistrate Nyirenda, sitting in Lilongwe, gave Malambo 15 years for each of the three counts. The sentences … Read More “Malawi: Zambian National Gets 15 Years Prison Sentence in MK53 Million Wildlife Crime” »
CNN — Imagine being a child and having a front-row seat, every day, to one of nature’s most remarkable live-action shows. That was the reality for conservationist Joseph Kyalo, who grew up along the border of the largest protected area in Kenya. Tsavo East National Park is known as the “theater of the wild” and … Read More “Last of the ‘Super Tuskers’: Saving Kenya’s majestic megafauna | CNN” »
CNN — Hundreds of elephants, wildebeests, and zebras have died across Kenya amid the nation’s longest drought in decades. “The Kenya Wildlife Service Rangers, Community Scouts, and Research Teams counted the deaths of 205 elephants, 512 wildebeests, 381 common zebras, 51 buffalos, 49 Grevy’s zebras, and 12 giraffes in the past nine months,” a report … Read More “Hundreds of elephants, wildebeests and zebras dead in Kenya amid prolonged drought | CNN” »
The Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate Court on Tuesday found Zambian national Kelby Roy Malambo guilty and convicted him on all the three charges he faced in the MK53m wildlife crime case. The charges Malambo faced were; being found in possession of specimen of listed species, dealing in government trophy and importing specimen of listed species … Read More “Malawi: Zambian National Guilty, Convicted in MK53 Million Wildlife Crime, Awaits Sentencing” »
CNN — A grueling two-year drought in Kenya has wiped out 2% of the world’s rarest zebra species and increased elephant deaths as well, as the climate crisis takes its toll on the east African nation’s wildlife. Animal carcasses rotting on the ground – including giraffes and livestock – have become a common sight in … Read More “2% of the world’s rarest zebras wiped out in Kenya’s relentless drought | CNN” »
