An annual survey of consumers has shown that demand for ivory in China has dropped to less than half the level it was before the country introduced a domestic ban on trade. Tusk has welcomed the news while cautioning that there is “no room for complacency”.
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Senior Wildlife Warden Solomon Chidunuka of Zambia’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife.
For the first time in several decades, the number of mountain gorillas has grown to over 1,000!
As we near the end of 2019, Tusk is grateful to all our supporters for what has been another incredible year. We have been really overwhelmed by the generosity of so many donors, helping us do more than ever through our long-standing partners. The Tusk Ball In May raised an incredible £530,000, while our annual Safaricom Marathon in Kenya generated a further £350,000 for our work.
British naturalist, author, conservationist, television presenter, cameraman and Tusk Ambassador Simon King OBE will share his tales of adventures and misadventures alongside Africa’s dynamic wildlife, as well as his observations of living harmoniously with nature in a modern world. The event is hosted and sponsored by Longleat, and is being held as part of the Living with Wildlife appeal, in partnership with Send a Cow.
The Bateleurs is a unique non-profit organisation of volunteer pilot members who give their aviation skills, the use of their privately-owned aircraft, and their time for free in support of conservation and the environment in Africa.
The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) was established in 2004 to develop community wildlife conservancies in northern Kenya.
The endangered okapi is the only other living member of the giraffe family, and survives only in the forests of war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
South Africa’s Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries and Environmental Affairs has released its 2019-2020 SANParks Annual Report, in which the full impact of rhino poaching in the world-famous Kruger National Park has been fully documented for the first time in some years. The figures report a loss of two-thirds of the park's white rhino population, and one-third of its black rhino population within less than a decade.
Dr Caleb Ofori-Boateng is the Founder and Director of Herp Conservation Ghana and works for the protection of amphibians in Ghana.