CONSERVATION NEWS
Last Male Northern White Rhino Dies in Kenya!
Let's work together to stop extinction in it's tracks!
A message from Coe (Nsefu Co-Founder)
We lost our boy...our beautiful solitary boy. THIS is what happens with poaching. This is the ugly, hideous truth about poaching. Sudan was the LAST male northern white rhino left. He was guarded 24 hours a day to ensure his safety from bloodthirsty and greedy bastards who wanted him dead for his horn. Poachers have no soul, no remorse, no compassion...nothing but self-interest. This beautiful old boy is gone...and we are all responsible for his death and for the wiping out of majestic species all over the world. Please don't stand on the sidelines and watch this happen over and over...PLEASE DO SOMETHING...like supporting organizations on the ground who are fighting tirelessly to save these animals. Nsefu Wildlife is one of many great foundations who are putting their lives on the line to stop the massacre of rhinos, elephants, lions, giraffes and more. PLEASE do something...so we don't have to grieve at the horror of witnessing the last male of his species pass. I am gutted by his death and you should be as well. God rest your beautiful soul Sudan...and we won't stop fighting to protect animals on earth. Soar high angel...soar high!
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ELEPHANT TROPHY HUNTING: OVER 1.3 MILLION URGE U.S. IVORY IMPORT BAN AFTER TRUMP REVERSAL
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More than one million people have signed a petition urging a ban on ivory and tusks being imported into the U.S. after the Trump administration reversed an Obama-era block on bringing elephant sport hunting trophies into the country. Story by EWAN PALMER.
Trump Administration Quietly Decides — Again — To Allow Elephant Trophy Imports
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The Trump administration has lifted a ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from certain African countries, just over three months after President Trump appeared to pause a first attempt to do so amid public uproar. In a memo dated March 1, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said that in place of the Obama-era blanket ban, the agency will consider importation permits "on a case-by-case basis." Story by Colin Dwyer/NPR America
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Chabwela School gets a fresh coat of paint!
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A Nsefu team member sent us some new photos of the Chabwela School getting its first coat of paint. The paint was applied to the inside and rough casting to the exterior and then painted. Black boards were also put up in the classroom. It's looking really good!
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China Bans Ivory: Why 2018 Is The Year Of The Elephant
Is this the beginning of the end of Elephant Ivory Poaching?
2018 should be a better year for the African elephant, ending a decade of merciless poaching for their ivory tusks. Ten years ago, legal trade in elephant ivory resumed in China and as the economy boomed, poaching climbed from a few thousand elephants a year to 33,000 – one every 15 minutes. The reversal of that decision is likely to be the greatest single step toward reducing elephant poaching.
The history of the ivory trade has shown that rather than replace illegal trade, “regulated trade” enables vast laundering of poached ivory into retail circles, and open promotion greatly increases the market. Despite years of government effort to perfect a theoretically watertight system, traders were easily able to pass off ivory stolen from Africa as legitimate using paperwork provided by naïve or, in some cases, corrupt officials. Story by Peter Knights/CEO of WildAid