by Adam Cruise | Jul 17, 2019 | News
By Katarzyna Nowak, Safina Center Fellow The Fate of the Elephant, a book by Douglas Chadwick, reads like it was written today. “History can be a study in irony,” Chadwick wrote. His book—commissioned by National Geographic—was published in 1992 by The...
by Adam Cruise | Jun 22, 2019 | News
By The New Zimbabwe A Bulawayo man Thursday appeared before a regional magistrate in the city for possessing raw unmarked ivory tusks weighing 15 kilogrammes. Peter Phosa (58), a worker at Soft Test Technologies, appeared before magistrate Joseph Mabeza facing charges...
by Adam Cruise | May 31, 2019 | News
By Rhian Lubin and Rowan Griffiths, The Mirror Poachers kill around 20,000 African elephants a year and there was a surge of 9,000% in rhino poaching in South Africa between 2007 and 2014 The elephant has been shot and is slumped on its knees, ears still intact but a...
by Adam Cruise | May 22, 2019 | News
By Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times Sam Wasser doesn’t sleep well. How can he, when 40,000 elephants are still slaughtered for their tusks every year? When — despite his best efforts — transnational trafficking rings continue to smuggle ivory and other wildlife...
by Adam Cruise | May 17, 2019 | News
By Deutsche Welle “We are being persecuted and threatened,” a woman of the Baka ethnic group in the Congo Basin region of central Africa told the human rights organization Survival International. The organization has been collecting similar testimonies for...
