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African elephant

The fight to save the elephants has new urgency

Business, Economics and Jobs

A new report from The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) says the world is in the midst of a poaching crisis and more must be done to end it immediately.A new report from The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) says the world is in the midst of a poaching crisis and more must be done to end it immediately.

Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra with great flourish.

Why a Hungarian orchestra had to borrow seven violin bows from friends

Arts, Culture & Media
Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra with great flourish.

Why a Hungarian orchestra had to borrow seven violin bows from friends

Arts, Culture & Media
tusks

Cheap drones give elephant protectors a new tool against poaching

Environment

When you buy ivory, you may be funding al-Shabab terrorists

Environment
Corporal Patricia Mututu (left), a 30-year Kenya Wildlife Service veteran, and Ranger Mildred Oduor on patrol in Nairobi National Park. Hundreds of Kenya Wildlife Service rangers have been shot by poachers in the last three years; 13 have been killed.

Rangers in Kenya are outgunned in the new poaching arms race

Environment

Kenya’s park rangers work to protect elephants and rhinos from ivory poachers. But they are increasingly outgunned and losing their lives.

Mapouka: Ivory Coast’s Dance-Style Version of ‘Twerking’

Arts, Culture & Media

While everyone is talking about Miley Cyrus’s latest moves, no one is talking about Ivory Coast and a dance called the Mapouka. Known as the “butt dance,” it was twerking before twerking was twerking.

In Kenya, Violent Elephant Poaching Increases at an Alarming Rate

Global Politics

The New York Times’ Jeffrey Gettleman talks about the latest massacre of 11 elephants.

The World

Ivory Poachers in Central Africa are Hunting Elephants with Heavy Artillery

Conflict & Justice

Jeffrey Gettleman, East Africa Bureau Chief for The New York Times, wrote that the poaching of elephants for the illegal ivory trade has gotten out of control in Central Africa, and has become increasingly militarized.

Illegal Ivory Market Flourishes in Cairo

Conflict & Justice

The marketplace that we are looking for in the Geo Quiz sells everything from chandeliers and spices to hookahs and shisha and now even illegal ivory.