by Adam Cruise | Jan 17, 2025 | Studies
By Susan Chacko, Down to Earth A new study has highlighted the potential of separate water points for elephants, located away from villages, to significantly reduce human-elephant interactions in Namibia’s Northern Highlands. Water point upgrades, such as protection...
by Adam Cruise | Jun 13, 2024 | Commentary
By Shola Lawal, Aljazeera Across Africa, growing populations and shrinking habitats are putting people and wildlife on a collision course. Farmers and researchers are devising unlikely tools to keep elephants at bay. An elephant family arrives to drink from a water...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 7, 2024 | News
By Quadri Adejumo, BNN In a recent development, tensions have escalated over the boundary of Kasungu National Park in Malawi, leading to a standstill in the construction of a perimeter fence intended to protect local communities from crop-destroying elephants. At the...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 25, 2023 | News
By Xinua Botswana on Sunday launched an “elephant express” bus to transport the community and school-age children in its elephant-rich northwest area. Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi stated during the bus handover ceremony in Seronga village...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 29, 2023 | News
By Rachel Nuwer, The New York Times It’s a familiar, dreaded scenario in many parts of Africa and Asia: An elephant shows up, wanders into farmers’ fields, and tramples and eats crops. Sometimes farmers fight back, and elephants are killed. That series of events...
