by Adam Cruise | Oct 31, 2024 | Studies
By University of Oxford A ground-breaking, nine-year study has revealed that elephants approaching small-scale farms in Kenya avoid beehive fences housing live honey bees up to 86% of the time during peak crop seasons, helping to reduce human-elephant conflict for...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 31, 2024 | Commentary
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick Our relationship with the wild animals on our planet, whose numbers are rapidly declining, is deeply problematic. With the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) in session in Colombia this week, it’s time to take stock. There are...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 24, 2024 | Press Releases
23 October 2024 – The undersigned organisations are deeply concerned by the announcements by some governments in southern Africa to cull large numbers of elephants and other wild animals, including in National Parks. In late August 2024, Namibia declared it...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 22, 2024 | Commentary
By Ross Harvey – ISS Africa Substantive wildlife tourism potential should be producing rapid broad-based development in all southern African countries. Of the world’s remaining African elephants, most reside in east and southern Africa. Botswana hosts the single...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 22, 2024 | News
By Julia Evans – Daily Maverick Wandering the depths of the Garden Route National Park, the only known survivor of the historic and iconic Knysna forest elephant herd, Strangefoot, faces an uncertain future. Conservationists and locals wrestle with the question:...
