All posts tagged poaching

Andrea Turkalo, Foremost Expert on Forest Elephants

By | July 1, 2015 | Educators, Elephants, General, Wild | No comments

Andrea Turkalo, of the Wildlife Conservation Society—and considered the world’s leading expert on forest elephants, having studied them for more than two decades in the Central African Republic (CAR)—recounts what initially drew her to the CAR nearly 30 years ago, and how she became interested in elephants. Read more…

Ryan Tate, co-founder of VETPAW

By | November 26, 2014 | Advocates, Elephants, Wild | No comments

Ryan Tate—co-founder and president of Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife (VETPAW), which employs military veterans to combat poaching of elephants and rhinos in African nations—discusses growing up in Tampa in a family that prized animals, and later enlisting in the Marines as a teenager. Read more…

Claudine André, bonobo partisan

By | October 2, 2013 | Advocates, Captive Exotic, Educators, Primates, Sanctuaries | No comments

Claudine André—a Belgian conservationist who in 1994 founded Lola Ya Bonobo, the world’s only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)—provides an overview of bonobos…

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