by Adam Cruise | Sep 23, 2025 | Commentary
By Don Ross and Ross Harvey – Business Day The overpopulation myth seems to be a useful pretext on which to justify the hunting and culling tender. The human brain is a remarkable organ (and remarkably metabolically expensive, so its evolution confirms our...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 22, 2025 | Commentary
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick North West Parks seems hell-bent on hunting and culling elephants and seems prepared to thumb its nose at parliamentarians trying to find solutions. In a blistering parliamentary session last week (18 September), members of...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 19, 2025 | Commentary
By Christiaan Bakkes – Daily Maverick Somehow, Addo Elephant National Park has achieved a fine balance between effective conservation and expansion while earning the goodwill of its neighbours. If ever an elephant reserve could serve as a template for effective...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 18, 2025 | News
By The Macao News Aerial surveys of elephants and other large mammals in their natural habitats are considered a vital tool for effective conservation The last survey was conducted in 2018 and alerted conservation officials to a 13 percent drop in population caused by...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 18, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick Claims of ‘overpopulation’ sound less like science and more like a cover for old practices dressed in ecological rhetoric. Elephants in fenced reserves, like Madikwe in North West, have become a lightning rod in South Africa....
