by Adam Cruise | Oct 1, 2022 | Commentary
By David Klein, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Not many people seemed to notice when Nguyen Van Nam was sentenced to 11 years in prison for trafficking in rhinoceros horn in July 2020. Journalists filed a few brief stories on his trial, which were...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 1, 2022 | Commentary
By Rio Button for Roving Reporters, Daily Maverick That’s the advice of Professor Rob Slotow, who says protected areas need to be sufficiently diverse and robust to bounce back from a range of major disturbances such as storms, drought, heat waves and diseases....
by Adam Cruise | Sep 27, 2022 | News
By Ayenat Mersie – Reuters NAIROBI, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Kenya’s worst drought in four decades has killed almost 2% of the world’s rarest zebra in three months, and 25 times more elephants than normal over the same period. It is starving...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 26, 2022 | Commentary
By Andrea Glioti, Ed Carron, Nadine Talaat, John Grobler and Tabitha Sanders – The New Arab In March 2022, a group of wild Namibian elephants landed in the UAE. The New Arab’s investigation reveals that the sale serves only to simulate an African safari...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 26, 2022 | News
By Chris Haslam, The Sunday Times (London) A perilous operation to move 3,000 animals across nearly 600 miles of bush is under way in Zimbabwe. One of the biggest single translocations of wildlife in history, Project Rewild Zambezi involves the capture of 400...
