According to KWS, poachers are now eyeing different animals instead of the usual elephants and rhinos for ivory.

There are lions roaming the busy streets of South Africa. Sometimes we even spot elephants casually strolling past our ...

Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya were given a choice of paying a fine of $7,700 or serving 12 months in ...

Two teenagers have been sentenced after they were found with about 5,000 ants in their possession. While they claim it was an ...

Teenagers were trafficking rare East African ants, including Messor cephalotes, a large red harvester species, for markets in ...

Globally, insect species are declining. This is caused by an array of threats such as pollution, pesticides, climate change ...

NAIROBI - A Kenyan court on Wednesday fined four men $7,700 each for attempting to traffic thousands of ants out of the ...

World Animal Protection has lauded the Kenyan judiciary and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) for taking decisive action in a rare and precedent-setting case involving the illegal trafficking of over 5 ...

The Kenya Wildlife Service had said the teenagers were involved in trafficking the ants to markets in Europe and Asia, and that the species included messor cephalotes, a distinctive, large and red ...

The teenagers were found with the ants, which authorities said were destined for European and Asian markets, in an emerging ...

The Kenya Wildlife Service also said the country has previously focused on combating the trafficking of body parts from larger wild animals such as elephants, rhinos, and pangolins. Illegal ...

Cities and their residents can protest overtourism, but wildlife cannot – but there are ways we can help, says ...