By Dr. Ross Harvey– University of Cape Town Tony Weaver has defended Botswana’s decision to reintroduce trophy hunting. Personally, he doesn’t ‘quite understand what motivates hunters’, but intellectually, he fully supports it ‘as a critical conservation...
By Dr. Ross Harvey– University of Cape Town A Chinese ground crew has just arrived to prepare 33 baby elephants for imminent shipment to China, according to sources near Hwange National Park. These elephants have been held in captivity for nearly a year after being...
By Heather Alberro -Associate Lecturer/PhD Candidate in Political Ecology, Nottingham Trent University From transport and housing to food production and fashion, our civilisation is driving climate and ecological breakdown. It’s...
By Zimbabwe Elephant Foundation Zimbabwe Elephant Foundation calls for a global response as video footage shows clear evidence of CITES Secretary-General, Ivonne Higuero, endorsing the barbaric capture and sale of young wild elephants from Zimbabwe to foreign...
By Adam Cruise – PhD candidate: Stellenbosch University, South Africa Wilder Lives uses ideas of ‘wildness’ and ‘rewilding’ to rethink the human relationship with our environment. As a species we have single-handedly destroyed our planet’s ecosystems in the short...
By Ross Harvey– PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town The arguments for trophy hunting contained within a recent letter published in the journal Science simply don’t stack up. A new letter published in Science argues that banning trophy hunting...
By Swati Thiyagarajan - Conservation Action Trust The Community Resources Boards (CRB) in Zambia on Thursday released a press statement expressing their deep concern over the fact that the communities have not been given their share of either concession fees or the...
By John E. Scanlon AO - Special Envoy at African Parks Network Keynote address at Business of Conservation Conference, Kigali, Rwanda 9 September 2019 As most of you probably know, the coming year will be a big one on the international calendar of global conferences...
By Dr. Louise de Waal – Conservation Action Trust No new elephants should be placed in captivity and elephants currently in captivity should be rewilded, was the overwhelming conclusion of the Captive Elephant Indaba held in Hermanus last Friday. This conclusion...
By Ross Harvey- PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town The Conversation Elephants are often accused of being responsible for the unsustainable loss of large trees in protected areas. This is because they strip bark and break branches. They can also...