By Mike Chase and Scott Schlossberg - Elephants Without Borders (EWB) Summary 1. In 2019, Botswana ended a five-year moratorium on the hunting of African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana). Here, we provide expert, outside review of the hunting programme and its...
By F. Maisels, C.R. Thouless, R. Mayienda, M. Yahya, J. Hart, H. Frederick, T. Breuer, C.T. Renn, R. Slotow, B. Okita-Ouma - the IUCN African Elephant Specialist Group Executive summary This is the sixth African Elephant Status Report (AESR) produced by the...
BY EMS Foundation The EMS Foundation’s recent on-site investigation into South Africa’s Provincial Nature Reserves reveals a dire situation. The majority of these reserves are unable to fulfil their conservation objectives due to poor management, insufficient funding,...
By Wildlife Justice Commission In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The...
By Adam Cruise - EMS Foundation Carbon mitigation or carbon offsets is a trading mechanism that enables governments, businesses, or individuals to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions by investing in projects that reduce, avoid, or remove emissions...
Around 2006, Africa began to experience a renewed wave of elephant poaching, with East and Central Africa most severely affected.1 Seizure data analysed in the World Wildlife Crime Report 2016 showed that most of the extensive illegal flow of elephant ivory was headed...
By Dr Adam Cruise, Dr Keith Lindsay and Dr Mark Jones This is a response to a document circulated by Brian Child et al entitled Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill: The Risks to Conservation, Rights and Livelihoods. Broadly, the document claims that the Bill...
By Adam Cruise As the passage of the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill moves to the Committee Stage of the House of Lords, a suite of amendments has been tabled for deliberation. These amendments include amending the Bill from a blanket ban to a case-by-case...
By Julian Rademeyer - Enact he national park’s most-pressing challenge is no longer preventing rhino poaching but eradicating internal corruption. For more than a decade, Kruger National Park has faced a relentless onslaught of rhino poaching. But today its greatest...
By Adam Cruise It has been claimed that the proceeds of trophy hunting provide essential revenue streams for local communities and the conservation of wildlife in marginal areas where photographic tourism is at a minimum or largely absent. Investigation conclusion:...