by Adam Cruise | May 9, 2026 | Commentary
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick A willingness to kill elephants as a management tool in North West’s Madikwe Nature Reserve suggests a shift in South Africa’s conservation approach. What was once a last resort may be becoming standard practice. t’s been a bad...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 5, 2025 | Commentary
By Mike Cadman – Financial Mail Madikwe’s pachyderms are at the centre of a debate on how to manage the wildlife reserve.\ The Madikwe Game Reserve in North West has become the focal point of an extraordinary wrestling match over how the reserve, and...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 23, 2025 | Commentary
By Don Ross and Ross Harvey – Business Day The overpopulation myth seems to be a useful pretext on which to justify the hunting and culling tender. The human brain is a remarkable organ (and remarkably metabolically expensive, so its evolution confirms our...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 22, 2025 | Commentary
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick North West Parks seems hell-bent on hunting and culling elephants and seems prepared to thumb its nose at parliamentarians trying to find solutions. In a blistering parliamentary session last week (18 September), members of...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 18, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick Claims of ‘overpopulation’ sound less like science and more like a cover for old practices dressed in ecological rhetoric. Elephants in fenced reserves, like Madikwe in North West, have become a lightning rod in South Africa....
