KATHMANDU — When residents of Nandapur village on the western fringes of Nepal’s Chitwan National Park rushed to the scene of a rhino death near the Narayani River on Jan. 20, they found a heartbreaking sight.
A 14-year-old female rhino lay lifeless in a pool of blood along with her 4-year-old calf. The mother’s horn had been sawn off; the calf had yet to grow a horn.
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/rare-case-of-rhino-poaching-jolts-conservation-community-in-nepal/
KwaZulu-Natal conservation body, Ezemvelo, says they will relocate an estimated 69 elephants in the Pongolo Nature Reserve in the north of the Province to another protected area inside or outside South Africa.
This comes after suspected poachers shot at tourists during a boat ride on the Pongolapoort Dam last week.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ezemvelo-kzn-wildlife-to-relocate-69-elephants-to-protected-area/
Former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt did not violate departmental ethics and conflict of interest rules as secretary when dealing with a California agency for which he once lobbied, according to a report from the Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Bernhardt, who served as Interior Secretary from 2019 to 2021, did both legal and lobbying work for the Westlands Water District (WWD) in central California before joining the Trump administration in 2017.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3820012-watchdog-trump-interior-secretary-did-not-violate-ethics-rules-with-former-client/