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Two men pleaded guilty in a Kenyan court Monday to illegally possessing 1,500 pounds (700 kilograms) of elephant tusks in what was believed to be the largest seizure of illegal ivory in recent years, a Kenyan official said.
Two Michigan State Police troopers have been sentenced to jail and fined for poaching deer while on duty.
An undercover investigation of the illegal wildlife trade in five African nations led to the seizure of about a ton of ivory along with hippo teeth and cheetah, leopard and python skins, the Kenya Wildlife Service said Monday.
A commercial fisherman is charged with poaching thousands of spiny lobsters with traps that damaged coral reefs and sea grasses in sensitive marine waters, in a case that spotlights an ongoing problem off the Florida coast.
Authorities in northeastern India have asked the army to help protect endangered one-horned rhinoceroses from poachers and have made the soldiers honorary wildlife wardens, officials said Saturday.
Authorities in India's remote northeast will deploy 100 armed guards in a protected game reserve after poachers killed a rare one-horned rhinoceros — the fourth this year — a senior official said Wednesday.
Curtis Thurman had just finished catching fish when a wildlife enforcement officer popped suddenly out of the forest to issue him a citation for illegal snagging in the South Fork of the Boise River.
Illegal ivory tusks seized in Singapore in 2002 give reveal the scale of the poaching problem (Image: PNAS)
A crackdown on the poaching of rare abalone and sturgeon nabbed 17 suspects Thursday in what state officials called one of the largest such busts in California history.
Poaching crackdown on B.C. coastNorthern abalone can spend their entire lives within a pond-sized patch of B.C. coastline. And that is where their problems begin. The rarest and most expensive B.C.
Three charged in poaching of salmon, steelhead in WashingtonThree Kennewick men have been charged in Franklin County District Court on several counts involving theft of salmon and steelhead from a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife fish hatchery collection site on the Snake River in southeast Washington. Peter P.
Scale of gorilla poaching exposedAn undercover investigation has found that up to two gorillas are killed and sold as bushmeat each week in Kouilou, a region of the Republic of Congo.
Wash. Wildlife Police Concerned About Sturgeon Poaching on Columbia RiverIn the deep waters of the Columbia River lurks a pre–historic looking creature. It's the white sturgeon — the largest freshwater fish in North America. Sturgeon are prized for their meat and eggs, which can fetch hundreds of dollars on the black market.
Women like to 'poach' attached men - Love & SexIt's something that wives and girlfriends have long suspected – that women like to target men who are already in relationships.
State Cracking Down on Fishing Violations on Skokomish RiverAs salmon return to Western Washington rivers, fisheries enforcement officers are joining forces to increase arrests on selected streams. Last weekend, for example, as many as 10 officers converged on the Skokomish River in southern Hood Canal, according to Officer Dennis Flower …
Arrests made in YouTube duck shooting videoThree Saskatoon-area residents were arrested Saturday morning and face charges under both federal and provincial wildlife protection laws in connection with a duck-shooting video.
Platypus die in illegal trapTwo male platypus have been found dead in a yabby net south of Canberra.
Robot Animals Snare US PoachersOn a remote U.S. Forest Service road in Arizona a few years ago, the driver of a white minivan slowly rolls to a stop, sticks a rifle out the window, and starts firing at what look to be wild turkeys.
Somali pirates versus European toxic-waste dumpersNo, this doesn't make hostage-taking justifiable, and yes, some are clearly just gangsters - especially those who have held up World Food Programme supplies. But in a telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali: "We don't consider ourselves sea bandits.
Florida Poachers Target HorsesKeep your horses in the barns for the night if you live in Florida. Horses are disappearing from paddocks and fields, only to turn up as butchered carcasses a few miles away.
Agent goes undercover to nab a gang of poachersThe body count began the moment Tom Sharpe met Mick Gordon. When Sharpe stepped from his pickup, he found four men and a boy in the garage of Gordon's Longview duplex stripping the skin from a big bull elk.
Seized salmon to be auctionedHere's your chance to make a bid on some tasty evidence from a suspected international poaching scheme. Federal agents have tons of salmon sitting on ice as evidence in a criminal investigation and they refuse to let it go bad.
Is Mass Species Extinction a Bigger Threat Than Global Warming?"Critics argue that species disappear and new ones emerge all the time. That's true, if you're speaking in terms of millennia.
"Fish Pirates" of the Chesapeake BayAn extensive organized crime ring of commercial fishermen on the Chesapeake Bay have been poaching Striped Bass for years. Now they have been indicted after an extensive investigation by game officials.
Orphaned Elephants Forced To Forge New Bonds Decades After Ivory BanScienceDaily (Jan. 21, 2009) — An African elephant never forgets – especially when it comes to the loss of its kin, according to researchers at the University of Washington.
Poaching May Erase Elephants From Chad Wildlife ParkThe elephant population in one of central Africa's remaining wildlife strongholds may vanish within the next two to three years if poaching continues at recent levels, according to conservationists who recently surveyed the park.
New Rules Advised for Hunting Gorillas and Other 'Bushmeat' | LiveScienceBushmeat, or wild-animal game, has long been a food source for people who live in African forests and hunt apes, antelopes and other animals for subsistence. But in recent decades, commercial hunters have started to empty out the forests, especially of primates.
Yabby poacher caught with thousandsA man caught with thousands of Bass yabbies - a prized species investigators suspect is being targeted in organised crime poaching - has received a prison sentence and been fined and forced to forfeit his expensive boat.
DNA Forensics May Prevent Elephant PoachingExtracting elephant DNA from confiscated ivory could be an important tool to take wildlife investigations a step farther and to stop poaching at its source.
Shell shock: abalone poacher jailedA 61-year-old man from the NSW South Coast has been jailed for four months and fined $900 for poaching abalone.
True cost of the ocean heistThere is a kind of theft that happens every day in a majority of the world's poor countries - and in many of the richer ones too. It usually happens out of sight, and most perpetrators get away with it.
Man accused in killing of endangered black bearDarryl Eubanks also was charged in a four-count indictment handed down in May with the illegal transportation of a black bear, obstruction of justice for allegedly tampering with a witness and providing false statements to federal investigators.
Poachers blamed for Nepal rhino deathsA third of the 30 endangered one-horned rhinos living in a sanctuary in western Nepal have died in less than a year, most of them slain by poachers, an official said.
Poachers threaten Mexico's cactiDrugs, guns, alcohol, tobacco. You name it. But in Mexico, organised crime has moved into a different market: cactus plants.
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