by Adam Cruise | Aug 16, 2021 | News
By Tracy Keeling – The Canary Namibia confirmed on 11 August that it’s going ahead with a controversial sale of endangered elephants. Officials claim the sell-off will “minimise human-elephant conflicts” in the areas from which they’ll take...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 30, 2021 | General
By Arlana Shikongo, The Namibian The meat of a ‘problem’ elephant that was trophy-hunted on Sunday has been distributed among farmers and farmworkers in the Otavi area. Romeo Muyunda, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 15, 2021 | News
By By Gail C. Thomson – Conservation Namibia The African savannah elephant was recently classified as Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), citing a decline throughout Africa of 60% over the past 50 years. Yet in...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 8, 2021 | Commentary
By Dr Adam Cruise Commodifying elephants under the banner of ‘consumptive sustainable use’ may hinder rather than help rural communities in Namibia’s community-based conservancies. The equity of financial benefits for impoverished rural communities from Namibia’s...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 12, 2021 | News
By Peter Kenny – Ecumenical News Anglican bishops across the world have signed a petition calling for an immediate halt to oil drilling in the Kavango Basin, in northern Namibia, in an area where elephants roam, by the Canadian Company ReConAfrica. The drive for...
