By Tamar Ron - Daily Maverick The Covid-19 crisis has taught us that not opting for wildlife conservation at local level can have a huge global cost. If indeed the pandemic all started from one local wet market, it is clear nothing in this world is happening far away....
By Keith Lindsay, Adam Cruise and Rosie Awori Just one day before a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which was to examine the legality of Namibia’s intended transaction, its government confirmed...
By Ryan Truscott - Mongabay An ambitious plan by a conservation NGO calls for linking up elephant habitats throughout East and Southern Africa by establishing wildlife corridors.But the “Room to Roam” plan, still at the conceptual stage, faces the difficult challenge...
By Adam Cruise, Keith Lindsay and Rosie Awori Japan has the last remaining legal ivory market of any significance. Its closure will make a crucial difference in stemming the onslaught of elephant poaching in Africa. Elephants continue to be illegally killed in Africa...
By Tracy Keeling - The Canary The Namibian government’s case for a controversial sale of wild elephants to destinations abroad is weakening by the day. Following the release of footage of captured elephants destined for export, concerns over their welfare...
By John Grobler and Christiaan Bakkes - Daily Maverick A report on Namibia’s conservation policies has raised a storm — and accusations that its two researchers were biased and plain wrong. Here’s why we say they were absolutely correct. In December, Daily...
By Tracy - The Canary The trophy hunting lobby group Safari Club International (SCI) attracted media attention in January. This was for auctioning off killing trips for a polar bear and numerous other wild animals at its Las Vegas convention. The coverage was based on...
By Geoff Beattie Do you have any desire to stalk and kill an elephant? Probably not, but some relish the idea. Recently the world’s largest trophy hunting convention took place in Las Vegas, organised by Safari Club International, an influential US-based...
By Helena Kriel and Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick The Kruger National Park has a major rhino-poaching crisis, but that’s just one of many mounting problems — and it’s extremely worrying. Crags of ancient rock and twisting rivers, 1,000-year-old trees and a rug of...
By Alejandro Ordonez, Evan Fricke, Haldre Rogers & Jens-Christian Svenning Picture a mature, broad-branched tree like an oak, maple or fig. How does it reproduce so that its offspring don’t grow up in its shadow, fighting for light? The answer is seed dispersal....