by Adam Cruise | Feb 17, 2023 | News
By Lydia Lam, Channel News Asia SINGAPORE: The director of a trading firm was sentenced to 10 months’ jail on Wednesday (Feb 15) for importing 1,787 pieces of elephant tusks from Africa into Singapore, en route to Vietnam. The tusks of the endangered species...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 16, 2023 | Studies
By Michelle D. Henley, Robin M. Cook, Anka Bedetti, Jessica Wilmot, Adine Roode , Carlos L. Pereira, João Almeida, António Alverca – MDPI Abstract Pathfinding elephants are moving through human dominated landscapes, often across international boundaries, thereby...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 16, 2023 | Commentary
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick Elephants created Africa’s first highways and still remember them. It’s when we block them that trouble with humans begins. Elephants are long-distance hikers, moving with the rains and seeking out greener pastures. Pathfinders...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 14, 2023 | Studies
By Antoinette van de Water, Michelle Henley, Lucy Bates, Rob Slotow – Science Direct Highlights We identify the multiple, overlapping benefits to humans and nature that elephants provide. We augment existing valuation...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 14, 2023 | Commentary
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick For a professional hunter, an elephant’s value is what he can ask a client who wants to shoot it. For the owner of a game reserve, it’s the increase in tourist revenue from owning elephants. A more complicated question is: What’s...