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,...
By By John Scanlon AO, Jonathan Barzdo, and Greta F. Iori - IISD SDG KNOWLEDGE HUB In Memoriam. Richard Leakey, Kenyan conservationist and paleoanthropologist The international community has been unable to put into place adequate safeguards to manage the trade, which...
By By Tamar Ron - Daily Maverick Can we find a way to support human-elephant conflict mitigation and coexistence at the local level, enable people around the world to enjoy viewing elephants, and at the same time enable the elephants to continue their natural lives...
By Judith Verweijen, Fergus O'Leary Simpson, and Peer Schouten, The Conversation The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) conflict-affected eastern provinces are home to numerous protected areas. These areas host unique biodiversity and a range of threatened species,...
By Timothy Kuiper & Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland - The Conversation It’s a grim and all too common sight for rangers at some of Africa’s nature reserves: the bullet-riddled carcass of an elephant, its tusks removed by poachers. African elephant populations...