by Adam Cruise | Nov 13, 2021 | News
By Geoffrey York, Globe & Mail For years, Laure Mekamne was besieged by forest elephants. She banged on steel barrels to drive them away. She lit fires. She moved her vegetable crops to a more easily guarded plot behind her village house. Nothing worked. “Whenever...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 20, 2019 | News
By Rachel Nuwer, The New York Times Poaching destabilizes nations, disrupts ecosystems and threatens biodiversity. A recent study suggests still another consequence: Some types of poaching may also accelerate climate change. Forest elephants — the smaller, endangered...