The British Army is building a new team of counter poaching specialists to help allies tackle wildlife crime and try to revive tracking skills lost during the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns.

African elephants are paying the price for ivory and time is running out as poaching, wildlife trafficking continues to threaten this iconic species.

Wildlife poaching is not new, it has taken on many forms over the eons of time, yet today is more destructive than ever before.

Botswana has a global reputation for zero tolerance of poaching and wildlife crimes. In recent years, however, it has become vulnerable to insider wildlife crimes committed by rogue securit

Recent illegal wildlife trade summits, like those in Botswana and London, hardly address the bushmeat trade – their agendas were captured by NGOs promoting the need to tackle the illegal ivory trade and to a lesser extent the rhino horn trade. Yet the illegal bushmeat trade is by far the most significant threat to the survival of Africa’s wildlife – within and without protected areas.

African elephants are paying the price for ivory and time is running out as poaching, wildlife trafficking continues to threaten this iconic species.

Photographer and wildlife guide Paul Goldstein condemns inadequate international efforts to protect tigers, rhinos and other wildlife, and calls for tougher measures

The recent horrific attack on a white rhino in a Paris zoo is just one example of a new, extreme era of hunting