By Wits University / Phys.Org. Since wildlife poaching in Africa became a critical conservation issue, Chinese people have been portrayed as ruthless in the apparent pursuit of wildlife body parts. The Africa-China Reporting Project in Wits Journalism enable...
By Mucha Mkono Research Fellow (Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow), Business School, The University of Queensland; Jason I. Ransom, Wildlife Ecologist, National Park Service; Katarzyna Nowak , Fellow, The Safina Center; Research Associate, University of the...
By Jared Kukura – Wild Things Initiative Many Southern African nations claim their elephant populations demonstrate the success of their management policies and legal ivory trade will be an additional benefit to conservation. However, their claims are unsubstantiated...
By Dr. Keith Lindsay - Contributing Researcher, Amboseli Trust for Elephants Quiet, nearly silent, footfalls with just a whisper of contact with the sand; a group of elephants moves single-file and purposefully along a well-trodden path. The multi-ton giants step...
By Adam Cruise PhD - Stellenbosch University, South Africa Between 2012 and 2019, Zimbabwe have sold 140 baby elephants to China. In total, there have been five separate exports: 2012: 8 elephants2015: 27 elephants2016: 35 elephants2017: 38 elephants 2019: 32...
By Dr. Michelle Henley - Elephants Alive “What would the world be, once bereft of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left, o let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.” ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins (Inversnaid 1881) There is a...
By Jared Kukura – Wild Things Initiative Despite the best efforts of powerful pro-hunting organizations, perception will never outweigh facts. Trophy hunting was, and continues to be, a sport built upon Western countries exploiting African wildlife and people. Many...
By Pauline Verheij - EcoJust Since the early 2000s the world has seen an alarming surge in poaching and trafficking of protected wildlife species. These crimes impact not just biodiversity. They also undermine the rule of law and affect economies and the livelihoods...
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick When President Mokgweetsi Masisi opened up Botswana’s rich wildlands to hunting, it helped gain him the essential rural votes he needed to get re-elected. But the ‘unethical’ hunting of a collared elephant has the local San community,...
By Dr. Ross Harvey (Independent Economist, University of Cape Town) For a Western hunter to pay to kill an African animal and expatriate its parts is a form of objectification, dehumanising and therefore morally reprehensible. It may entrench a Western narrative of...