By Cyril Zenda - Fair Planet While the world is seized with protecting iconic African wildlife from being poached to extinction, a silent threat is ravaging these animals in record numbers: a worsening water shortage linked to erratic rains and increasingly hotter...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick Chobe National Park’s goose that lays the golden egg of Botswana tourism is under threat of being killed by eight 75-bed lodges planned for its prime riverfront. If it goes ahead, wildlife people pay to see will most likely have fled....
By Ryan Truscott - Mongabay Conservation groups have slammed the Namibian government’s decision to capture 22 wild elephants and export them to zoos in the United Arab Emirates.They contend the animals were taken from a fragile, desert-adapted population herd,...
By Ross Harvey - Good Governance Africa (GGA) On Friday 25 February 2022, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment (FFE), Barbara Creecy announced that a trophy hunting quota had been set for 10 black rhinos, 10 leopards and 150 elephants for 2022. In other...
By Tamar Ron - Daily Maverick The Covid-19 crisis has taught us that not opting for wildlife conservation at local level can have a huge global cost. If indeed the pandemic all started from one local wet market, it is clear nothing in this world is happening far away....
By Keith Lindsay, Adam Cruise and Rosie Awori Just one day before a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which was to examine the legality of Namibia’s intended transaction, its government confirmed...
By Ryan Truscott - Mongabay An ambitious plan by a conservation NGO calls for linking up elephant habitats throughout East and Southern Africa by establishing wildlife corridors.But the “Room to Roam” plan, still at the conceptual stage, faces the difficult challenge...
By Adam Cruise, Keith Lindsay and Rosie Awori Japan has the last remaining legal ivory market of any significance. Its closure will make a crucial difference in stemming the onslaught of elephant poaching in Africa. Elephants continue to be illegally killed in Africa...
By Tracy Keeling - The Canary The Namibian government’s case for a controversial sale of wild elephants to destinations abroad is weakening by the day. Following the release of footage of captured elephants destined for export, concerns over their welfare...
By John Grobler and Christiaan Bakkes - Daily Maverick A report on Namibia’s conservation policies has raised a storm — and accusations that its two researchers were biased and plain wrong. Here’s why we say they were absolutely correct. In December, Daily...