by Adam Cruise | Mar 13, 2024 | News
By Edwin Lombard, IOL More elephants could be introduced to the Knysna forest after the rare sighting of a wild female elephant. South African National Parks (SANParks) said since the confirmation of the presence of a wild female elephant remaining in the Knysna...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 7, 2023 | Commentary
By Tony Carnie – Daily Maverick Over the past few months, their future has become desperate, with at least six (and possibly as many as 25) of the animals shot and killed by local residents due to human-wildlife conflict and deliberate poaching attacks inside a...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 14, 2023 | Studies
By Shaun Smillie – Daily Maverick Every pile of elephant dung holds a story that tells of forgotten migrations, ancient hookups and a population’s well-being, and now scientists are unlocking these secrets thanks to a new way of collecting DNA. It used to be...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 13, 2023 | News
By Tony Carnie, Daily Maverick Tourists viewing elephants from a boat on the Jozini/Pongolapoort Dam in northern KwaZulu-Natal ducked for cover on Wednesday as suspected elephant poachers opened fire. Eight foreign tourists and four South Africans came under gunfire...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 2, 2022 | News
By Dominic Naidoo – IOL A 39-year-old man is expected to appear before the Calcutta Magistrate’s Court in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, today after he was arrested by the Nelspruit Hawks Serious Organised Crime Investigation, the White River K9 Unit and Mpumalanga...