by Adam Cruise | Dec 18, 2021 | News
By Angus Begg – Daily Maverick Two years ago, Mozambique’s spectacular and vast Niassa Special Reserve, bordering on Tanzania, was just getting over a horrific period of elephant poaching. Then it was swamped by Cyclone Eloise. Yet the resilient Mozambicans took...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 3, 2021 | News
By AllAfrica Maputo — Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi announced on Saturday that, for the third consecutive year, no elephants have been poached in the Niassa National Reserve in the far north of the country, or in the Gorongosa National Park in the central province...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 3, 2020 | Commentary
By Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime Mozambique’s far northern Niassa National Reserve, one of the great wilderness areas of Africa, was also until recently an elephant killing field where poachers operated with virtual impunity. Now, the...