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Wire snares remain one of the biggest threats to the continued existence of Afric's iconic wildlife species. In the outskirts of Hwange, Zimbabwe's oldest and biggest national park, skilled and committed scouts from the Dete Animal Rescue Trust (DART), who are supported by IFAW, work diligently to locate and eliminate hazardous wire snares. We invite you to take a moment to celebrate the tremendous achievement of the DART de-snaring team. Their unwavering dedication and hard work over the past year have been pivotal in eliminating perilous wire snares from the buffer area of…

Georgina Savage's consummate and comprehensive podcast, The Invisible Hand, grants the listener a front-row seat to this conflict. Born in Johannesburg then moving to Australia at the age of six (picking up the accent you will hear in the podcast’s narration), Savage was drawn back to the country in which she grew up. "The Kruger has always been embedded in my childhood experience; in my sense of home, or at least my home country," she says over the phone.

Rhino and elephant poaching has declined significantly this year in Namibia, home to the only free-roaming black rhinos left in the world, government data showed on Monday. Nine rhinos have been illegally killed by hunters so far in 2021, the lowest number in eight years for the period, according to the figures from the ministry of environment and tourism. Four elephants have been killed this way, a five-year low