by Adam Cruise | Jul 6, 2024 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick Legalising trade will remove the stigma that rhino horn is illegal and could entice many more consumers into the market. The demand will then outstrip the legal supply and poaching will increase. This will push security measures...
by Adam Cruise | Jul 2, 2024 | News
By Dean Balsamini, New York Post Two people have been indicted for selling thousands of dollars’ worth of illegal elephant ivory through online auctions. Between April 2020 and May 2023, Grace Hu and Yincheng Wu allegedly operated Merces, an online auction business,...
by Adam Cruise | Jun 18, 2024 | News
By The Guardian SILENT bullet is a new phrase being used -albeit silently- in the murky world of wildlife poaching. The terminology refers to the killing of elephants and other wildlife without the usual loud gunshot sound. This means poachers can commit their crime...
by Adam Cruise | Jun 11, 2024 | Commentary
By Ross Harvey – Business Day Southern African nations are at it again. Nyasha Chingono reported in late May that those “hosting the largest elephant populations in the world made a fresh pitch…to be allowed to sell their $1bn ivory stockpiles”,...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 20, 2024 | News
By EnviroNews Nigeria The EPI Foundation, the secretariat to the 24 African member states of the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), has expressed its strong opposition to the reopening of domestic ivory markets, as proposed in the Republic of South Africa’s Draft...
