By Nomusa Dube “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorises it and a moral code that glorifies it.” - Frédéric Bastiat Over the past several years, news sources...
By Azzedine T. Downes - President and CEO at International Fund forAnimal Welfare (IFAW) Most humans, most of the time, live as though the planet is ours for the taking. Some scientists even want to rename this chapter in Earth’s history as Anthropocene, or the Age of...
By Enrico Di Minin Researcher in Conservation Science, University of Helsinki & Christoph Fink, PhD Student, University of Helsinki - The Conversation The illegal wildlife trade is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity. Demand for species...
By Philippa Brakes - Post-grad Researcher, University of Exeter - The Conversation Shared knowledge is an important currency for humans. It shapes everything from what we eat and how we dress, to how we raise our children. Some things we learn individually, some...
By Bill Laurance & Penny van Oosterzee - THE CONVERSATION For time immemorial, many wildlife species have survived by undertaking heroic long-distance migrations. But many of these great migrations are collapsing right before our eyes. Perhaps the biggest peril to...
By Katarzyna Nowak, Safina Center Fellow “Eyes in the sky” for aerial surveys and patrols are vital for monitoring and anti-poaching in African elephant range. Innovative approaches to collecting intelligence, guiding rangers’ ground responses, while also...
By Isabelle Szott & Nicola F. Koyama -The Conversation Going on safari in Africa offers tourists the opportunity to see some of the most spectacular wildlife on Earth – including African elephants (Loxodonta africana). Known for their complex social...
By Don Pinnock & Colin Bell Is the name of this book prophetic? We hope not, but the signs are worrying so it’s worth pondering. In Africa there’s one elephant for every 20 000 people; fewer than 500 000 according to the Great Elephant Census and well down from...
By Andrew Brown, UK Ivory Trade Consultant for the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) When the Ivory Act 2018 passed into UK law on 20 December 2018 it was a success for all those who had pushed for the new law for many years – conservation NGOs,...
ByVicky Boult, Postdoctoral Researcher in Conservation Biology. University of Reading - The Conversation Africa’s elephant population has plummeted from roughly a million in 1970 to around 400,000 today – a decline which is largely blamed on poaching for...