By Adam Cruise - Daily Maverick For years, the DA has distinguished itself by arguing that good governance is not about who governs, but how. The George countercomplaint places that claim under unprecedented strain. Is it still the party that defends institutions...
By Rhett Ayers Butler - Mongabay The death of Craig, a widely known super tusker from Amboseli, drew attention not just because of his fame, but because he lived long enough to die of natural causes in a period when elephants with tusks like his are rarely spared....
By Ross Harvey - BusinessDay As the dust settles on the latest UN climate summit in Belém, one thing is now unavoidable: the world is not on track to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Analyses of the COP30 outcome and the UN’s latest synthesis of...
By Ryan Truscott - Mongabay In Southern Africa, people live alongside elephants, but not always peacefully. The growing reports of human-elephant conflict have triggered calls for elephant culls in some countries, like Zimbabwe. But conservation groups are working...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick If Botswana carries out its proposal to permit the world’s largest elephant hunt quota, it will provoke a fierce reckoning over science, politics and the fate of Africa’s remaining giant tuskers. If you wanted a masterclass in how to...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick Strangefoot, the Knysna Forest’s last wild elephant, continues to walk alone while a privately funded plan to reintroduce companions stalls and is withdrawn. Deep in the moss-slicked silence of the Knysna Forest is a single trail of...
By Tracy Keeling - The 4 Percent The global wildlife trade body's triennial meeting delivered triumphs for some species but illuminated systemic weaknesses that point to a troubling road ahead. At its latest triennial conference, the global wildlife trade...
By Adam Cruise - Daily Maverick A new report shows an increase in estimated forest elephant numbers, but this is a function of better surveying, and the species remains critically endangered. A new 2024 status report dedicated to the African forest elephant...
By Adam Cruise - Daily Maverick CITES CoP20 in Samarkand exposed a stark truth: the conservation model southern Africa has spent decades promoting is no longer credible. Southern Africa’s conservation story – the one the region has been selling internationally for...
By Adam Cruise - AllAfrica When Dr Mike Chase banks the small survey plane over northern Botswana’s mopane woodlands, he can see the country’s wildlife story written in the dust below. Carcasses — some months old, others more recent — lie scattered along ancient...