By Nomusa Dube Dear Honourable President, In the first instance, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your hard work. I see you each day doing all that you can to portray Zimbabwe in a positive light. I take every opportunity to tell the World about...
By Dr. Hannah Mumby - ecologist and conservation scientist, Principal Investigator of the Bull Elephant Network Project and Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. (BMC Blogs Network) Photographs taken of wild animals might be more useful data sources than...
By Don Pinnock - Conservation Action Trust Conservationists who support trophy hunting as a means of raising funds for preserving wild areas and wild animals have always argued that ‘if it pays, it stays’. But new studies seem to indicate that the financial...
By Adam Cruise - PhD candidate: Stellenbosch University, South Africa A term, especially as it relates to elephant conservation, often bandied about is ‘Human-Elephant Conflict’ or simply HEC. This is a buzzword (or buzz-anagram) that stems from its simplicity and...
By John Scanlon - Special Envoy at African Parks Network (First published on LinkedIn April 2018) Perhaps due to my background as a lawyer, I always regarded CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) as a...
By Fiona Gordon - Director of Gordon Consulting and an Ambassador to the Jane Goodall Institute New Zealand. Five fishermen casting their rods, two hauling in their nets, six seated buddhas, intricate pagodas and an army of miniature immortals. There’s perhaps one...
By Mr Robin Cook (Big Trees Project Manager) & Dr Michelle Henley (Co-founder, Director and Principal Researcher) - Elephants Alive The visual presence of an African elephant standing alongside an iconic marula tree is a lasting memory that many safari goers take...
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...