Breaking News: Javan Rhino Declared Extinct in Vietnam
http://planetsave.com/2011/10/25/breaking-news-javan-rhino-declared-extinct-in-vietnam/
Vietnam Loses Fight to Save Its Rare Javan Rhinos After Last Animal Believed Poached for Horn

Congo-Kinshasa: Authorities Concerned Over Baby Gorilla Trafficking
http://allafrica.com/stories/201110120607.html 

Kenya: Horror of the elephants butchered for their ivory
Shot, face hacked off, tusks stolen... horror of the elephants butchered for their ivory

  

Bloody Ivory - Preview Nat Geo Wild Video (National Geographic Channel)
Illegal Ivory Dealers
The EIA team heads to Kenya, Hong Kong and China to investigate the world of 
elephant poaching and the international ivory trade. Following claims of an upsurge 
in poaching and ivory smuggling, EIA wants to establish firsthand what’s really 
going on. Visiting Kenya’s national parks, it documents the horrific reality of 
elephant poaching, and in China its undercover investigations discover startling 
revelations about how the ivory smuggling underworld works. Watch the preview for 
Blood Ivory here:
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/nat-geo-wild/wild-all-videos/ngc-illegal-ivory-dealers.html 

The senseless and horrific death of Hope
http://www.eia-international.org/the-senseless-and-horrific-death-of-hope 

Elephant crisis situation in Zimbabwe escalates
http://www.swradioafrica.com/pages/elephantcrisis300911.htm 

Urgent intervention needed as authorities threaten to shoot them
Escalating land invasions in Zimbabwe are taking their toll on the country’s already 
decimated wildlife and a herd of 70 elephants on the Chiredzi River Conservancy 
(CRC) in the south eastern lowveld, close to Gona re Zhou National Park, is under 
serious threat.
Photos: http://www.swradioafrica.com/Chiredzi%20_elephants300911/index.html 

Lion Cubs in Somalia Part of Large Smuggling Operation
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/311868 

2010

Raubtier-Verlust bringt Planet Erde in Gefahr
+ 04.08.2011 + Das Verschwinden der Wölfe, Löwen, Haie und anderer großer Raubtiere gehört zu den größten Umwälzung des Ökosystems Erde, die der Mensch ausgelöst hat.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=472d7fa12798ms273 

Black Market Tigers
How does one combat the illegal trade and poaching of tigers in Indonesia? The WCS Indonesia Program's Wildlife Crimes Unit Coordinator explains the dangers and goals of his mission.
http://www.wcs.org/news-and-features-main/black-market-tigers.aspx 

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November 2008

 http://zimbabwewilddogs.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/22/the-poaching-crisis/ 

Juni 2008

Protect Elephants from Poaching: Don't Sell Ivory to China

Target: CITES Standing Committee members

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/932863312

In July, the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) will consider a proposal to allow a one-time export of stockpiled ivory to China by designating China as a "trading partner" for raw ivory from Africa's legal stockpile.

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