by Adam Cruise | Nov 14, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick This crisis is not an excess of elephants, but an excess of human walls, human weapons and human denial. If you only read the headlines, you’d think southern Africa is groaning under a booming elephant problem with no silver...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 12, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick Eskom’s proposed transmission line in Limpopo illustrates the cruel paradox of South Africa’s energy dilemma: a coal-dependent grid already fuelling climate change is now being expanded in ways that further destroy biodiversity....
by Adam Cruise | Oct 30, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick South Africa’s provincial nature reserves, the quiet custodians of our country’s natural heritage, are in freefall. Once envisioned as sanctuaries of biodiversity and engines of rural development, they are now symbols of systemic...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 17, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick A quiet but highly significant policy rift is opening among southern African states as the world turns its attention to CITES CoP20, scheduled for 24 November 2025 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. For decades, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 29, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick Carrying capacity came from livestock management in the US in the early twentieth century, where calculating how many cattle a pasture could support before overgrazing was a matter of profit. But elephants are not cattle. They are...
