By George Wittemyer - The Conversation Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as access to remote areas...
By Dr Sam Ferreira - Specialist Scientist: Large Mammals SANParks What the Research Says About Elephant Numbers So, how many elephants is too many elephants? It’s a question people have wrestled with for ages. Kruger National Park, home to one of Africa’s largest...
By Stephanie Klarmann - The Revelator Arguments abound on the benefits and dangers of trophy hunting. We need a careful, measured approach to analyzing how it’s justified and promoted. Trophy hunting remains a contentious subject amongst scientists, conservationists,...
By Adam Cruise - The Bateleurs A trophic cascade is an ecological process which starts at the top of the food-chain and cascades all the way down to the bottom. African elephants, for example operate, in the natural landscape in this way. Biologists often refer...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick An aerial survey across the Okavango Delta in Botswana in 2020 discovered clusters of dead elephants. On the ground local conservationists came across a bizarre scene: waterholes littered with what looked like 350 elephant statues in...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick Our relationship with the wild animals on our planet, whose numbers are rapidly declining, is deeply problematic. With the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) in session in Colombia this week, it’s time to take stock. There are millions...
By Ross Harvey - ISS Africa Substantive wildlife tourism potential should be producing rapid broad-based development in all southern African countries. Of the world’s remaining African elephants, most reside in east and southern Africa. Botswana hosts the single...
By Adam Cruise - AllAfrica The decisions made by the Namibian and Zimbabwean governments to slaughter hundreds of elephants amid a widespread drought will do very little to address the effects of human hunger or alleviate human-elephant conflict. So why are they...
By Adam Cruise - Daily Maverick Nature and the people living with nature are exchanged on a market so that polluters can keep polluting and speculators can profit. Carbon reduction and biodiversity protection schemes are simply a corporate money-making racket. Carbon...
By Abhishyant Kidangoor - Mongabay Scientists and conservationists have collaborated to create what is possibly the largest database of GPS-collared elephants. The database contains 4 million GPS data points that were collected by collaring 300 African elephants in...