Ivory
Load reduction: Eskom cuts power in large parts of Soweto, Ivory Park
The utility said it’s implemented so-called "load reduction" to prevent networking overloading in these areas.
The Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC) warned that criminal gangs were adapting to tighter border controls amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
A timeline looking at the dwindling numbers of the African elephant.
The decision follows the internet company's marketplace rivals Rakuten and Mercari adopting a ban in 2017.
The announcement on World Elephant Day followed two years of consultations with non-government groups, ivory retailers and the public.
Members of the SAPS Flying Squad were busy with patrols when they made the arrests on Friday.
Though it is illegal to buy and sell ivory in communist Vietnam, lax law enforcement has allowed the illicit trade to flourish on the black market.
Ugandan authorities started monitoring the cargo from the border while it was on its way to the capital, Kampala, on 24 January.
A man has been arrested for the possession of illegal ivory products worth more than R2 million in Milnerton Ridge.
The wild pachyderms were shot with heavy-calibre rifles at watering spots near a popular wildlife sanctuary in the Okavango Delta.
Judge Dorah Chepkwony said the sentence imposed on Mohamed Feisal, who was also fined 20 million shillings, was harsh as the minimum punishment set out by Kenyan law was a one-year jail term and 1 million shilling fine.
New legislation will create the toughest ban on ivory in Europe and one of the toughest in the world, it said, with a prohibition on the sale of nearly all antiques containing ivory.
Esmond Bradley-Martin, 75, had spent decades tracking the movement of animal products, mostly from Africa to markets in Asia.
China has made a big push to eradicate ivory sales and demand has fallen since early 2014 because of a crackdown on corruption and slower economic growth.
The ivory was stashed in four boxes at Robert Mugabe International Airport.
Tagua seeds, also known as “vegetable ivory”, are an off-white colour and can be carved and turned into ornaments and jewellery much like elephant ivory.
In 2015 alone 32 tonnes of ivory were seized in south-east Asia coming from East and West African ports.
Three foreign nationals were arrested after they were found one rhino horn, a lion's tooth and ivory balls.
China has announced that it will ban all domestic ivory trade and processing by the end of 2017.