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...
Par Dr. Keith Lindsay Etant donné la cadence infernale à laquelle les éléphants disparaissent, la question est hélas légitime : à quoi ressemblerait le monde sans ces magnifiques créatures ? S’ils étaient entre 3 et 5 millions au 19ème siècle, ils ne seraient plus...
By Ross Harvey - Senior Researcher in Natural Resource Governance (Africa), South African Institute of International Affairs Botswana has an elephant poaching problem. The numbers far exceed previous years according to a new survey. The survey was conducted...
By Dr. Louise de Waal - Conservation Action Trust The results of the recent and most extensive elephant population survey of Botswana estimates the country’s population at 126,000 elephants, a further decline from 131,600 reported in 2014. The report shows repeated...
By Don Pinnock - Conservation Action Trust A report by Elephants Without Borders claiming ‘a significant poaching outbreak is ongoing in at least four distinct hotspots’ in Botswana has provoked government ire. Anyone who saw the results of the 2014 Great African...
By Nomusa Dube Zimbabwe is in the grip of Chinese money and our leaders are selling everything to China for a Rolex and a Rolls Royce. As much as we don’t want to admit it, politics and wildlife are intertwined. Baby elephants are being stolen and ripped off from...
By Dereck Joubert, CEO Great Plains Conservation and Great Plains Foundation Our beautiful Botswana is under siege by lobby groups. Yesterday a white paper was submitted to the government recommending wildlife utilisation with a series of suggestions to: a) open up...
By Dr. Keith Lindsay The question of elephants going extinct is an increasing possibility. In the 19th century, there were between 3 to 5-million elephants. Now there is an estimated number of 400,000 individuals across the continent. According to current rates of...
By Dr. Lynn Johnson - Conservation Action Trust CITES, the United Nations organisation which regulates wildlife trade, meets in Sri Lanka in May for it’s 18thsession. First on its agenda should be its chronic inability to conserve the world’s natural resources. It’s a...