Wildlife Conservation Organization
There was a shootout. Andy and I weren’t there, but we learned through satellite text messages that Colonel Gui and his soldiers from the Congolese army ran into the bandits somewhere between Kisangani and Obenge—likely the brothers of Colonel Toms, a convicted war Continue Reading
‘Moses’, a suspected poacher in the Congo jungle, is burning crosses as death threats to National Park supporters, but it’s not enough to derail the Elephant Ivory Project team on to their mission to stop elephant poaching. We just arrived Continue Reading
Today, I’m packing. After two years in the works, we’re kicking off the Elephant Ivory Project in earnest on Sunday morning, when Andy Maser and I fly to Kinshasa–the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)–with a case of Continue Reading
Sam Wasser, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington, is calling for a moratorium on the sale of elephant tusks. Through DNA analysis he has concluded that 8% of the world’s elephant population is being killed each year by Continue Reading