By Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime Events in recent months raise important questions about whether the insurgents in northern Mozambique may be positioning themselves to reap greater profits from the many trafficking routes that pass through...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick/Conservation Action Trust Wild animals are back. Kangaroos bounding through the streets of Melbourne, elephant herds passing through Indian villages, jackals in Johannesburg, leopards in Mumbai, wild boar in Bergamo and Verreaux eagles...
By Patricia Awori - Director of Pan-African Wildlife Conservation Network It’s a lazy Thursday afternoon and I can hear the sounds of a storm gathering outside my window. It has been a different season, the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 was like wildfire...
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick Everything a costly high-level panel appointed by the Department of Environmental Affairs is tasked to find out about wildlife is already known… so what’s going on? Millions of rand are being spent by the Minister of Environment,...
By Dr Adam Cruise – University of Stellenbosch The current COVID-19 outbreak is the latest and particularly devastating example of hundreds of viruses jumping from animals to humans. About 75% of emerging infectious diseases in humans are zoonotic, accounting for...
By Dr Ross Harvey - Independent Economist, University of Johannesburg The legal global wildlife trade is worth roughly $300 billion. Of more than 31,500 listed terrestrial birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles, approximately 5,500 are traded. Research...
By Ian Michler - Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University If anything has become patently clear from the Covid-19 pandemic it is that we need to change the way we think and live. Current paradigms are failing us. While we know humans function best in a state...
By Dr Adam Cruise – University of Stellenbosch It is the grim reality that wild places and animals are being destroyed at catastrophic levels by human action. A report, The Living Planet Index (2018)prepared by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Zoological Society...
By John E. Scanlon AO – Special Envoy at African Parks Network U.S. Congressional International Conservation Caucus Virtual Caucus Hearing Executive Summary · Health and wildlife experts alike have warned us for decades...
By Dr. Ross Harvey – Independent Economist, University of Cape Town Botswana hides behind national “sovereignty” while selling off its natural heritage to foreign hunters and treating elephants as mere commodities. In February 2020 the government of Botswana auctioned...