by Adam Cruise | Dec 22, 2025 | Commentary
By Ross Harvey – BusinessDay As the dust settles on the latest UN climate summit in Belém, one thing is now unavoidable: the world is not on track to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Analyses of the COP30 outcome and the UN’s latest synthesis...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 22, 2025 | News
By Cyril Zenda – Down to Earth Since lifting the ban on trophy hunting in 2019, Botswana has been progressively increasing the numbers of animals on offer to sport hunters. Wildlife conservationists are alarmed by the sharp increase in elephants and other...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 22, 2025 | Commentary
By Ryan Truscott – Mongabay In Southern Africa, people live alongside elephants, but not always peacefully. The growing reports of human-elephant conflict have triggered calls for elephant culls in some countries, like Zimbabwe. But conservation groups are...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 18, 2025 | Reports
By Mike Chase and Scott Schlossberg – Elephants Without Borders (EWB) Summary 1. In 2019, Botswana ended a five-year moratorium on the hunting of African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana). Here, we provide expert, outside review of the hunting programme and...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 17, 2025 | Commentary
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick If Botswana carries out its proposal to permit the world’s largest elephant hunt quota, it will provoke a fierce reckoning over science, politics and the fate of Africa’s remaining giant tuskers. If you wanted a masterclass in how...
