Studied everything about elephants from their psyches to the tips of their tails & fought for elephant survival from the northern Kenyan desert to lecture halls in Beijing, China NAIROBI, Kenya––Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton, 83, died on December 8, 2025 at his home in Nairobi, Kenya. Excellence in all things was expected of […]
New wildlife trafficking studies miss the point, says legendary investigator
Old ivory is not killing elephants, points out Daniel Stiles, & AI theories are not evidence sufficient to bring seizures & convictions WASHINGTON D.C.––Seven years after the still officially unsolved murder of ivory traffic investigator Esmond Martin in Nairobi, Kenya, Humane World for Animals continues to use the methods he pioneered to pursue the ghosts […]
Vantara: billionaire-built zoo/sanctuary has conservationists in a dither
Nobody knows quite what to make of the state-of-the-art facility begun by Anant Ambani, 29, but it has taken in thousands of animals from often dire situations JAMNAGAR, India––A global chorus of conservationists are currently bashing Anant Ambani, 29, son of the reputed twelfth richest man in the world, for allegedly building the world’s […]
Can one baby gorilla rescued in Istanbul stop the deadly great ape traffic?
The Istanbul baby gorilla is one among thousands bootlegged out of war-torn central Africa ISTANBUL, Turkey––An approximately eight-month-old baby western lowland gorilla, rescued from a coffin-like wooden crate on December 22, 2024 at the Istanbul Airport in Turkey, may be the “missing link” between two of the other horrific stories in the news that day. […]
The ghost of ivory traffic investigator Esmond Martin stalks Connecticut
Six years after Esmond Martin’s unsolved murder, the Humane Society of the U.S. took a page from his books HARTFORD, Connecticut––The ghost of ivory and rhino horn traffic investigator Esmond Martin still stalks ivory merchants six years after Martin, 76, was stabbed to death in his own bed on February 5, 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya, […]
Who killed ivory trade investigator Esmond Martin, why?
Survived more than 30 years of work in some of the world’s most dangerous places, only to be stabbed in his bed NAIROBI, Kenya––Nairobi police homicide detectives appear to believe that renowned elephant ivory and rhino horn trafficking investigator Esmond Bradley Martin Jr., 75, was murdered on February 5, 2018 in connection with a […]