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- March 5, 2025
March 5, 2025
Dear subscribers, welcome to the new incarnation of the Elephant News Service. Today, a tiny but determined bird was seen chasing an elephant away from a waterhole, a remarkable display of nature’s dynamics. In Kenya, the government has set aside over Sh1 billion this year to compensate victims of human-wildlife conflict. Read more. Best regards, The Elephant News Service team
Lucy Leeson, AOL, March 5, 2025
An African elephant casually walks up a couple’s driveway and stops for a midnight snack in this incredible Ring doorbell footage. The moment was captured on Deon Geldenhuys and his wife Kim Smith’s Ring security camera at their home close to a wildlife estate in South Africa.
Florah Koech, Nation Media Group, March 4, 2025
The government has set aside more than Sh1 billion this year to compensate victims of human-wildlife conflicts. In 2023 and 2024, the government spent Sh966 million and another Sh908 million on pending claims dating back from 2013, Tourism Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano said on Monday.
Tendai Rupapa, The Herald, March 5, 2025
ZIMBABWE needs to have a coordinated domestic, regional and international response to combat the poaching scourge that threatens some wildlife species with extinction, Environment and Wildlife Patron, First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa has said. She said this in her remarks at the World Wildlife Day commemorations in Harare on Monday.
Jenny Allison, The Cool Down, March 5, 2025
Since 2016, conservationists with the World Wildlife Fund have partnered with Cameroonian government officials to collect data on the populations of several key wildlife species in the Boumba Bek and Nki National Parks in the southeastern part of the country. After evaluating the trends in their surveys over the past decade, they recently shared good news: Nearly all of the populations are stable, and some are even increasing.
Yahoo News, March 5, 2025
A small elephant approached a waterhole in the Sabi Sand Nature Reserve in South Africa and got too close to a lapwing. But the tiny bird suddenly became very territorial with the curious calf.
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