by Adam Cruise | Nov 5, 2025 | Commentary
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick Behind claims of escalating human-elephant conflict lies a tangle of weak data, mismanagement and a R460-million fund that seems to need a crisis more than it proves one. Are elephants becoming increasingly dangerous to humans?...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 5, 2025 | News
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick The number of wild creatures is dwindling as the ones we have domesticated grow … and grow. A new study by scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, published in Nature, has taken on an extraordinary challenge: to...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 30, 2025 | Reports
BY EMS Foundation The EMS Foundation’s recent on-site investigation into South Africa’s Provincial Nature Reserves reveals a dire situation. The majority of these reserves are unable to fulfil their conservation objectives due to poor management, insufficient funding,...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 30, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick South Africa’s provincial nature reserves, the quiet custodians of our country’s natural heritage, are in freefall. Once envisioned as sanctuaries of biodiversity and engines of rural development, they are now symbols of systemic...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 25, 2025 | News
By Justin Gosling – Environmental Investigation Agency Malawi has long featured as a key player in the global wildlife trafficking scene. As far back as 2002, Malawian wildlife trafficking networks were heavily implicated when Singaporean officials intercepted...
