By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick The number of wild creatures is dwindling as the ones we have domesticated grow … and grow. A new study by scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, published in Nature, has taken on an extraordinary challenge: to weigh...
By Justin Gosling - Environmental Investigation Agency Malawi has long featured as a key player in the global wildlife trafficking scene. As far back as 2002, Malawian wildlife trafficking networks were heavily implicated when Singaporean officials intercepted 6.2...
By Patrick Greenfield - The Guardian Human-wildlife conflict has now overtaken poaching as a cause of fatalities – and is deadly for people too. Some villages are finding new ways to live alongside them. At nearly 3.5-metres tall and weighing as much as a bus, you...
By Hillary Rosner - Mongabay Years of elephant movement data reveal distinct routes the animals take to access food and water, but road building and new rail lines, towns, cities and fences are increasingly cutting off their ability to move across the landscape. In...
By Yeukai Karengezeka - The Herald FIVE suspects appeared in court on Wednesday on charges of unlawfully possessing and attempting to sell two raw, unmarked elephant tusks weighing 21,8 kilogrammes. The suspects, identified as Justice Chikodze, Sarah Katumba, Abraham...
By Rachel Savage - The Guardian A third of Etosha national park has been burned despite efforts of volunteers, who say troops were sent in too late. Wildfires that raged through one of Africa’s largest national parks have been brought under control, Namibia’s...
By Gia Radnai - Lowvelder Limpopo, a 19-year-old female elephant, was euthanised after fatally goring senior carer Israel Shambira at the Hoedspruit Elephant Rehabilitation and Development Trust (HERD) on September 13.Shambira, a long-serving and trusted member of...
By The Macao News Aerial surveys of elephants and other large mammals in their natural habitats are considered a vital tool for effective conservation The last survey was conducted in 2018 and alerted conservation officials to a 13 percent drop in population caused by...
By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick As delegates at a two-day indaba reached for solutions to human-elephant conflict, there were many who were happy to reach for their guns. At the Southern African Elephant Indaba at Bonamanzi Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal last week,...
By Getaway Magazine A rare sighting of Oupoot — the last-known elephant of the Knysna forest — was spotted for the first time in six years. Images captured by Karatara farmer Oubaas Fourie on Thursday, 17 July, shows the lone elephant moving calmly along the...