By Kitty Block and Sara Amundson - Humane Society of the United States The trade in live wild animals and their body parts threatens the survival of so many wildlife species, and it poses serious global security and public health risks. In a one-two punch targeting...
By Frédérique Ries and Arnaud Goessens - The Parliament If the EU is serious about fighting elephant poaching, it must completely close its domestic ivory market and ban all ivory imports and re-exports, argue Frédérique Ries and Arnaud Goessens. By Frédérique...
By Wiebe Van Der Veen, University of Twente / Phys.Org By recognizing the movements of animals in the wild using attached sensors, it may well be possible to detect if poachers are nearby. These animal activity recognition sensors can also help in biodiversity...
By Stephanie Kurose - The Hill The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more than one million lives, shattered the global economy and left many people overwhelmed by the harsh realities of a changing world. Congress has struggled desperately to address the...
By John Scanlon AO - The Independent We are all experiencing this Covid-19 pandemic together, and it has reminded us, albeit in a devastating way, of the interconnected nature of things, most particularly between economies, the environment, and human...
By Dr Keith Lindsay - Elephant Biologist, Fondation Franz Weber and Amboseli Trust for Elephants The 'mystery' of Botswana's mass elephant mortality has deepened rather than been dispelled Stories of elephants dying in Botswana have raced through national and...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick One of the world’s worst wildlife scams is being permitted by the United Nations organisation formed to protect wild animals from over-exploitation and regulate trade. It all hinges on the letter Z on an export and import permit. Is...
By Kitty Block and Sara Amundson - The Humane Society of the United States Since 2017, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan has introduced a bill that would undermine America’s war on ivory trafficking by hindering the ability of states to create laws fighting this illegal trade....
By Prakash Kashwan - Co-Director, Research Program on Economic and Social Rights, Human Rights Institute, and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science., University of Connecticut. The United States is having a long-overdue national reckoning with racism....
Rosie Awori – Pan African Wildlife Conservation Network Shrouded with selfish ambition, certain American trophy hunting factions have chosen to identify with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement under the guise of caring about conservation and people in Africa. In a...