By Melissa Reitz - Animal Survival International The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) the international body that oversees trade in endangered species, has given Namibia the go-ahead to capture and sell 57 wild...
By Jack Dutton - Devex With a sprawling jungle covering nearly 90% of the country, Gabon, whose economy has historically been reliant on oil, is looking to harness its rainforest to become a green superpower. As chair of the African Group of Negotiators on Climate...
By Melissa Reitz - Animal Survival International (ASI) The link between human-wildlife conflict and climate change is a conversation we can no longer ignore. Over the past decade, this conflict has become as pressing a threat to wild populations as poaching,...
By Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime Recent analysis from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime has found that reported prices for illegal ivory rose in 2020 — the first increase since the peak of global ivory prices in...
By Rosie Awori and Adam Cruise The plight of elephants has formed the subject of many debates and calls to action and yet, over the years, Africa continues to lose an exceptional number of elephants, mostly due to poaching for their tusks and human-induced habitat...
By Helena Kriel and Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick A baby elephant, still suckling from its dead mother, was shot by a Kruger National Park ranger, despite offer of sanctuary, on the grounds that it’s national park policy. But is this the case and, more importantly,...
By Tracy Keeling - The Canary The UK government proudly announced that one of “the world’s toughest bans on ivory sales” had become law in December 2018. It described the ban in the Ivory Act as “world-leading”. But two and a half years later, the act still hasn’t...
By James A. Baker III and Hillary Rodham Clinton - Washington Post As the world watches the Tokyo Olympics, our thoughts turn to the international peace and cooperation that the Games have come to symbolize. Each of us, in the administrations we served, wedded these...
By Caitlin O'Connell - Scientific American It was late afternoon in the winter scrub desert within Namibia’s Etosha National Park when I spotted a family of elephants on the southern edge of the clearing. I was scanning the horizon from the observation tower...
By Charles Helm - The Conversation Hundreds of thousands of years ago, South Africa’s Cape south coast looked very different. Some of the species that roamed this area are now extinct; others evolved over the millennia and their modern descendants inhabit different...