By Shola Lawal, Aljazeera Across Africa, growing populations and shrinking habitats are putting people and wildlife on a collision course. Farmers and researchers are devising unlikely tools to keep elephants at bay. An elephant family arrives to drink from a water...
By Adam Cruise - AllAfrica Botswana has threatened to send 10,000 elephants to the UK and another 20,000 to Germany as UK and European countries move toward banning the import of hunting trophies. According to President Mokgweetsi Masisi, Botswana is heavily...
By Ross Harvey - Business Day Southern African nations are at it again. Nyasha Chingono reported in late May that those “hosting the largest elephant populations in the world made a fresh pitch…to be allowed to sell their $1bn ivory stockpiles”, purportedly...
Rosalie Ann Modder-Oyefeso, Enviro New Nigeria In April 2018, a group of Forest Elephants surged out of the undergrowth of Omo Forest in Ogun State and ambled across the Benin-Sagamu Expressway, bringing traffic to a standstill and killing one foolhardy passerby...
By Adam Cruise - Daily Maverick The wave of elephant poaching over the past two decades appears to have substantially subsided while prices of ivory have collapsed, but there remain serious threats to some elephant populations. According to the 2024 report from the UN...
By Ian Redmond - Born Free Born Free’s Senior Wildlife Consultant Ian Redmond OBE, DSc(hc), FLS reports on the killing of much-loved ‘tusker’ elephants in Tanzania, and why recent news stories have sparked concern. Trophy hunting is a hot topic at the moment. Two...
By Stephanie Klarmann - Daily Maverick Botswana and Zimbabwe have long claimed that their elephant populations are exploding, making hunting a necessity to curtail ‘unsustainable’ growth, but a recent survey contradicts this narrative. According to the most recent...
By Adam Cruise - Daily Maverick Will government’s new strategy really benefit people and nature, or simply lead to massive over-consumption of natural resources, creating unrealistic expectations in an attempt to win the rural vote? At the recent Biodiversity and...
By Shola Lawal - Aljazeera They might be an awesome sight to see from a safe distance on safari as they lumber around with their big, lopping ears and long trunks, but for those who live side by side with elephants, these mammals can quickly become a menace....
By Tracy Keeling & Adam Cruise Trophy hunters in Tanzania have killed individuals believed to be from a cross-border group of elephants, causing deep disquiet. Trophy hunters reportedly killed three elephants in northern Tanzania between September 2023...