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....
by Adam Cruise | Aug 20, 2025 | Commentary
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick A slow-burning tragedy is unfolding at Madikwe Game Reserve in North West and the grind of counter-accusations has the look of a fight between enraged rhinos. Meanwhile, elephants are being lined up to be shot. The NSPCA...
by Adam Cruise | Jun 13, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick: At a recent Parliamentary Committee hearing the tourism board claimed that there are too many elephants in Madikwe and that overpopulation threatens biodiversity and leads to habitat degradation. And yet, there is no published...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 15, 2024 | News
By Sheree Bega – Mail&Guardian Plans are under way to euthanase starving elephants in the Madikwe Game Reserve in North West on the border with Botswana. Pieter Nel, an ecologist at the North West Parks and Tourism Board, said its database showed that...
