Ivory Crush #WorldElephantDay
August 12th was officially #WorldElephantDay and just a little over a week before that was the New York City Ivory Crush, where nearly 2 tons of illegal ivory was confiscated and destroyed [...]
REDD+ Carbon Project: FastCompany
“One set of offsets comes from the Chyulu Hills in Kenya, an area a little bigger than Rhode Island, where protecting the forest serves multiple benefits–beyond absorbing CO2, the forest [...]
The REDD+ Carbon Offset Programme: The Star Kenya
The project is managed by the Chyulu Hills Conservation Trust, a coalition of government, community and NGO partners including the Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Forest Service, Maasai Wilderness [...]
REDD+ Carbon Project: Conservation International Blog
Conservation International (CI) launches its Carbon Footprint Calculator, a tool to calculate your carbon footprint and reduce it by purchasing what’s called an “offset.” One beneficiary of these [...]
African Lions denied full protection from International Trade
If you haven’t read our article on our breakdown of how CITES works you can read it by clicking: All things CITES and CoP17. In more recent news, the 183 parties (countries) participating [...]
All things CITES CoP17 & Wildlife Protection
This may be the biggest conservation event going on right now and we want you to be in the know of it all. The International wildlife trade is estimated to be worth billions of dollars, [...]
Elephant Tusk Burn in Nairobi National Park
Over 100 tonnes of Elephant Ivory and Rhino Horn. It’s hard to grasp just how significant that is until its seen in pyres beside each other. The visual stunned us all as we stood in the mud at [...]
