By Adam Cruise – PhD candidate: Stellenbosch University, South Africa Southern African nations intimidate, bully and threaten the rest of Africa (and the world) in rejecting the full protection of African elephants Geneva: Extraordinary scenes took place on Thursday...
By MEGAN CARR “It’s just a genuine, feel-good conservation story” – Dallas Zoo, USA Seventeen elephants were exported from Swaziland to the USA in 2016. These elephants were moved into the Dallas Zoo, the Sedgwick County Zoo in Kansas and the Henry Doorly...
Open letter to EU Environment Ministers, Karmenu Vella, EU Environment Commissioner and Krista Mikkonen, President of the EU Environment Council Copy: Jean-Claude Juncker, EU Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, incoming EU Commission President and David...
For the attention of Jean-Claude Juncker, EU Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, incoming EU Commission President, and Antti Juhani Rinne, Prime Minister of Finland and President of the EU Council of Ministers. The world has been shocked to see distressing...
By Adam Cruise – PhD candidate: Stellenbosch University, South Africa While global efforts to ban international and domestic ivory markets have been ramped up, South Africa quietly continues to trade in a product that has seen a third of the continent’s elephant...
By Fiona Gordon – Director of Gordon Consulting and an Ambassador to the Jane Goodall Institute New Zealand. The meeting of Parties to the Convention on International trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Geneva this week marks almost 3 years since CITES agreed for...
By ANDREAS WILSON-SPÄTH - Conservation Action Trust South Africa, DRC, Namibia and Zimbabwe believe they should be able to sell threatened wildlife species on global markets, just like mass-produced trinkets. The South African government, together with those of...
By Adam Cruise – PhD candidate: Stellenbosch University, South Africa If Botswana is concerned about the livelihoods of impoverished rural communities, it should not kill elephants and trade in ivory See video Botswana’s Environment minister, Kitso Mokaila,...
By A Group of Concerned Scientists Your Excellency, President Dr. Masisi We are writing in response to ongoing debate over elephant management in Botswana. In particular, we wish to discuss the diverging opinions over options for managing elephants and reducing...
By Melissa Reitz - Conservation Action Trust US zoos now plan to import baby elephants from Zimbabwe, undeterred by the international furore over their 2016 import of 18 wild elephants from Swaziland. The US Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) media liaison, Rob...