by Adam Cruise | Oct 17, 2025 | Studies
By Deblauwe, V. et al – Science Advances Abstract Critically endangered African forest elephants preferentially eat fruits and disperse seeds of carbon-dense trees, including the highly valued and threatened African ebony. The illegal ivory trade has led to...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 17, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick A quiet but highly significant policy rift is opening among southern African states as the world turns its attention to CITES CoP20, scheduled for 24 November 2025 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. For decades, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 5, 2025 | Commentary
By Mike Cadman – Financial Mail Madikwe’s pachyderms are at the centre of a debate on how to manage the wildlife reserve.\ The Madikwe Game Reserve in North West has become the focal point of an extraordinary wrestling match over how the reserve, and...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 1, 2025 | News
By Rachel Savage – The Guardian A third of Etosha national park has been burned despite efforts of volunteers, who say troops were sent in too late. Wildfires that raged through one of Africa’s largest national parks have been brought under control, Namibia’s...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 29, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick Carrying capacity came from livestock management in the US in the early twentieth century, where calculating how many cattle a pasture could support before overgrazing was a matter of profit. But elephants are not cattle. They are...
