by Adam Cruise | Apr 9, 2024 | Studies
A review of elephant aerial surveys, 2010 – 2022 By Scott Schlossberg1 & Michael Chase1* – Elephants Without BordersExecutive Summary In 2022, an aerial survey for African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) was conducted over the Kavango-Zambezi...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 29, 2023 | News
By News Ghana The results of a trans-border survey to ascertain the elephant population within the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) are expected to be made public by June. According to the KAZA secretariat, the data-gathering phase was...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 5, 2023 | Commentary
By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) It was past midnight when Grandson Kenalemang awoke to an all too familiar sound: the rumbling of an elephant rampaging through his farm. By the time he was outside, banging pots to scare the animal away, it was too late....
by Adam Cruise | Nov 30, 2022 | Commentary
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick If Africa’s elephants had the choice, as they once had for millions of years, where would they go and why? With telemetry, scientists can answer these questions and propose new routes for conservation. Most of the world’s savannah...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 10, 2022 | News
By Mqondisi Dube, VOA News Five southern African countries, with more than half the continent’s elephants, are conducting a first-ever aerial census to determine the elephant population and how to protect it. Light aircraft will fly simultaneously across the...
