by Adam Cruise | Jan 26, 2021 | News
By Daily News The co-founder and CEO of charity Tusk has told CNBC that the shutdown of the tourism industry in Africa due to the Covid-19 pandemic has caused an economic crisis which is impacting conservation in the region. Charles Mayhew, who is based in the U.K.,...
by Adam Cruise | May 13, 2020 | News
By Adam Minter – Business World SOCIAL DISTANCING may save human lives, but it’s wreaking havoc on some of the world’s most threatened species. In Botswana, which depends heavily on tourism, poachers have taken advantage of suddenly empty wildlife reserves to...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 30, 2020 | News
By Staci McLennan, Opinion / The Parliament Magazine The world as we knew it has changed: lives have been lost, unemployment is soaring, shops are closed, roads are empty and half of humanity is on lockdown. The economy is suffering and governments are scrambling to...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 26, 2020 | News
By George Knowles & Louise Boyle, The Independent In a bustling meat market on a tourist island in Indonesia on 7 April, a pile of dead bats is laid out for sale on a table next to cuts of fresh pork while a butcher angrily shoos away a customer trying to take...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 24, 2020 | Commentary
By Ian Michler – Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University If anything has become patently clear from the Covid-19 pandemic it is that we need to change the way we think and live. Current paradigms are failing us. While we know humans function best in a...