by Adam Cruise | Jan 23, 2019 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise We have been incorporating elephants into our lives since humans first became…well…humans. The earliest known San rock paintings throughout Africa depict our fascination with elephants, so do the cave paintings right across Asia and Europe. In fact,...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 22, 2019 | News
By Mpho Tebele – Southern Times – Jan 22, 2019 In a dramatic turn of events, Botswana has joined forces with Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe to compel the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 22, 2019 | News
By Don Pinnock – 22 January 2019 – Daily Maverick We need to talk about the future of zoos. There are about 1,500 formal and many more informal ones in the world, holding between three and four million undomesticated, non-human creatures displayed for...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 21, 2019 | News
By Dr Lynn Johnson Daily Maverick CITES, the United Nations organisation which regulates wildlife trade, meets in Sri Lanka in May for its 18thsession. First on its agenda should be its chronic inability to conserve the world’s natural resources. It’s a discussion the...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 10, 2019 | News
Lucy Campbell – The Guardian The long-extinct woolly mammoth could gain protected status in an unprecedented attempt to save the African elephant from the global ivory trade. If approved, the protection of the mammoth under the Convention on International Trade...
