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...
By John E Scanlon AO - Chair, Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime One of the two objectives of the Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime (the initiative) is to amend existing international wildlife trade laws to include public health and animal health...
By Batavia C, Nelson MP, Darimont CT, Paquet PC, Ripple WJ, Wallach AD.- Society for Conservation Biology Conservation Letters. 2018; e12565. AbstractTrophy hunting has occupied a prominent position in recent scholarly literature and popular media. In the scientific...
By University of Exeter Old male elephants play a key role in leading all-male groups, new research suggests. Trophy hunters justify targeting older bull elephants on the grounds they are "redundant" in terms of breeding and hence species survival. But the...
By Purdue University Elephant trails may lead the way to better conservation approaches. “Think of elephants as engineers of the forests,” said Melissa J. Remis, professor and head of anthropology at Purdue University, who is best known for her work in ecology and...
By Rosie Awori - Bachelors Degree in Law, local community journalist specialising in African policy and wildlife conservation. Member of the Pan African Wildlife Conservation Network handling youth affairs and communication Every year on 12th August, we celebrate...