On Borrowed Time, launched in conjunction with World Tiger Day 2011, trains a spotlight on the poaching crisis in Belum-Temengor and calls for the problem to be put on the national agenda. These forests in northern Perak are of critical importance for the conservation of tigers and other...
Published 08/29/13
In early 2012, a heavily-armed band of foreign poachers, believed to be Sudanese, entered on horseback across Cameroon's border with Chad. Over two months, the group slaughtered over 300 elephants for their ivory in Bouba N'Djida National Park. Before the incident, the park was home to the most...
Published 08/29/13
Joseph Okori, WWF's African rhino programme coordinator, discusses the poaching of African rhinos and the illegal trade in rhino horns. Not an isolated issue, it impacts on humans too. In recent years the problem has not only increased in terms of numbers killed, but we see the increasingly...
Published 08/29/13