by Alice Laguardia and Gaspard Abitsi - The Revelator An important new survey — the first nationwide test of new technology — also reveals critical conservation priorities. In 2013 our colleagues Fiona Maisels and Samantha Strindberg, working with several other...
By Julian Newman - Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) In late June 2002, the container ship MOL Independence docked at Singapore port after a voyage of almost a month from Durban in South Africa. On board was a consignment which had been on a far longer journey....
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick Because of their size and visible effects on vegetation, Kruger Park’s elephants are a highly emotive subject, fuelling acrimonious debates, cries of ‘too many elephants’ and ‘Kruger has an elephant problem’ – followed by demands for...
By Tracy Keeling - The Canary Germany has become the latest European country to announce a potential ban on the import of hunting trophies. The move comes as those who support the practice have increased pressure on European politicians to continue with the...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick While hunters celebrate and conservationists mourn the killing of two of Botswana’s largest-tusked elephants, a biodiversity tragedy is waiting in the wings. or millions of years, elephants have undertaken seasonal migrations, following...
By Emily Beament - The Independent Measures from boosting ecotourism to electric fences to protect people’s crops are being used to help the critically endangered species. Critically endangered forest elephants play a key role in conserving rainforests that are...
By Sharon Guynup - MongaBay Many plants rely on animals to reproduce, regenerate and spread. But the current sixth mass extinction is wiping out seed-dispersing wildlife that fill this role, altering entire ecosystems.Thousands of species help keep flora alive, from...
By Dean Paton - The Christian Science Monitor When Sam Wasser was a young biologist studying baboons in Tanzania, he never imagined he would one day lead an international force cracking down on the smuggling of illegal goods, from elephant ivory to pangolins and...
By Cyril Zenda - Fair Planet While the world is seized with protecting iconic African wildlife from being poached to extinction, a silent threat is ravaging these animals in record numbers: a worsening water shortage linked to erratic rains and increasingly hotter...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick Chobe National Park’s goose that lays the golden egg of Botswana tourism is under threat of being killed by eight 75-bed lodges planned for its prime riverfront. If it goes ahead, wildlife people pay to see will most likely have fled....