by Adam Cruise | May 19, 2025 | News
By Patrick Greenfield – The GuardianThousands have been displaced and conservation work halted as series of killings jeopardises decades of work in Niassa, one of Africa’s biggest protected areas. One of Africa’s largest protected areas has been shaken by a...
by Adam Cruise | May 19, 2025 | News
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick A new investigative report has laid bare the scale and complexity of wildlife trafficking across southern Africa, exposing a tangled web of corruption, organised crime and systemic failures that are eroding conservation efforts...
by Adam Cruise | May 18, 2025 | News
By The Zimbabwean Zimbabwe’s national police force appears reluctant to pursue Li Song, a Chinese national allegedly at the centre of a poaching network that uses the deadly chemical cyanide to kill animals in the country’s game reserves. Li was arrested in 2024 by...
by Adam Cruise | May 18, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – The Bateleurs Many years ago, while camping in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, I discovered a relatively unknown African philosophical concept that epitomises how we should look at the natural environment. Ukama. I had arrived at a remote camp...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 23, 2025 | News
By Julienne Du Toit – Daily Maverick Hundreds of years ago, the Eastern Cape was full of elephants. By 1931, there were only 11 left. Now their numbers are expanding again, even along their long-forgotten tracks through the Karoo. There are few experiences more...
