Open Letter from 50 Signatories. Dear Parties to CITES and the CITES Secretariat, On 3 March 2023, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Faunaand Flora (CITES) will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Heralded as the Convention to protect...
By Mokgadi Mogy Mashako - Daily Maverick A rural project in the Greater Kruger area in Limpopo is empowering grandmothers to fly the conservation flag using technology. Rural grandmothers in Limpopo, brought together in the Ndlopfu Gogo programme by Elephants Alive,...
By Nadine Talaat - The New Arab Nearly a year after wild elephants were captured and sent to the UAE to simulate a safari experience, little is known about their location or wellbeing, elevating concerns around an already-controversial wildlife export....
By Chris Morris, International Policy Digest It would have been a safe bet to wager. On January 18, 2014, in Nampula, Mozambique, Tang Tongjian, a 40-year-old Chinese national, boarded a flight to China, transiting Nairobi, Kenya. His luggage contained a 3.4 kg piece...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick Elephants created Africa’s first highways and still remember them. It’s when we block them that trouble with humans begins. Elephants are long-distance hikers, moving with the rains and seeking out greener pastures. Pathfinders among...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick For a professional hunter, an elephant’s value is what he can ask a client who wants to shoot it. For the owner of a game reserve, it’s the increase in tourist revenue from owning elephants. A more complicated question is: What’s the...
By By John Scanlon AO and Jinfeng Zhou - IISD SDG Knowledge Hub Voting under CITES has, overall, been a strength of the Convention, both at CoPs and in its committees, including when considering compliance and implementation issues. Yet there is a sense amongst some...
By MIGUEL ÁNGEL CRIADO - El País Many elephants are now born without the emblematic ivory and goat scurs are getting smaller. Hunting, whether legal or illegal, upsets the natural order because hunting animals with large horns or tusks create an artificial selective...
By Tony Carnie - Daily Maverick Over the past few months, their future has become desperate, with at least six (and possibly as many as 25) of the animals shot and killed by local residents due to human-wildlife conflict and deliberate poaching attacks inside a...
By Karen Lapizco, World Animal News Europe’s largest trophy hunting fair is currently taking place in Dortmund, Germany. The appalling event, which began on January 24th, runs through January 29th. Over 80 national and international exhibitors from Canada, Argentina,...