by Adam Cruise | Mar 12, 2022 | News
By Lenin Ndebele – News24 The African Elephant Coalition has called on CITES to convince Japan to stop the ivory trade.Although legal, Japan has been flagged as a major market for illicit ivory from Africa.Dealers buy ivory in Japan and smuggle it to other parts...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 25, 2021 | News
By Linda Hohnholz, eTN editor African nations step up pressure on Tokyo Government to close ivory market ahead of March 29 government meeting. Letters from four African nations have been sent to the Governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, pleading to protect elephants from...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 12, 2020 | Commentary
By Dr Adam Cruise – Stellenbosch University, South Africa Today is World Elephant Day, a day the world celebrates the majestic giants of Africa and Asia. Sadly, however, there is not much to cheer about. Poaching for elephant tusks, mysterious die-offs that...
by Adam Cruise | May 3, 2020 | Commentary
By Patricia Awori – Director of Pan-African Wildlife Conservation Network It’s a lazy Thursday afternoon and I can hear the sounds of a storm gathering outside my window. It has been a different season, the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 was like...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 22, 2019 | News
By Xinhua GENEVA, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — Amid an ongoing international wildlife conference in Geneva to better protect the world’s vulnerable species, dozens of African countries on Wednesday called on Japan to save the elephants by closing its domestic ivory...
