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Arusha. Tanzania, once among Africa's leading elephant strongholds, has recorded a sharp decline in its elephant population over the past 20 years, according to the new findings of the National Wildlife Census 2024/2025. The census shows that elephant numbers have fallen from more than 134,000 in 2005 to 66,714 currently, reflecting long-term pressure from poaching and human-driven environmental change.

The deep, guttural grunts that once characterized the Shamvura section of the Kavango gradually fall silent and give way to an eerie silence. What was once a thriving sanctuary is now being transformed into a cemetery as a local extinction takes place in real time. In just twelve months, a stable population of 187 hippos has been decimated to just 47. This 75% collapse is not a tragedy of nature, but a calculated massacre, fueled by a deadly combination of toothless Angolan legislation and a brazen commercial meat trade conducted in broad daylight.

Namibia is in the process of establishing a special operations unit that will include the use of horses to help curb poaching, an ofcial said on Wednesday. According to Manie le Roux, who coordinates the K9 unit at the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, the mounted unit, which will have 12 horses and 14 members, will work together with the canine unit.

One of three suspects, who were denied bail by the Oshakati Magistrate's Court after allegedly being found in possession of two rhino horns, is appealing the decision in the Oshakati High Court. Petrus Mashuna (35) from Iitapa village in Omusati is hoping to reverse the decision by Magistrate Makapa Castro Simasiku to deny him bail.

The rhino-poaching court case of former Brave Warriors team doctor Gerson Kandjii and four other accused was postponed to 23 September after he and co-accused Stephanus David failed to turn up at the Okahao Magistrate’s Court on Friday.