by Adam Cruise | May 24, 2025 | News
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick Elephants don’t respect land ownership and without restraints they roam. But with bad fencing and a growing herd, a showdown was inevitable. In a heated and emotionally charged session of the South African Parliament’s Portfolio...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 20, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick The draft strategy is skewed in favour of anthropocentric benefits – economic, spiritual and cultural – and cannot function in practical terms. South Africa’s Draft National Elephant Heritage Strategy, which closed to public...
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...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 16, 2024 | Commentary
By Ross Harvey – Business Day A disturbing challenge has been launched by trophy hunters in the Constitutional Court objecting to the definition of animal wellbeing included in the latest set of amendments to national environmental law. The South African Hunters...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 11, 2024 | Commentary
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick It was only a matter of time before hunters challenged former environment minister Barbara Creecy’s new laws on the treatment of wild animals. The first salvo has just been fired in the Constitutional Court. The motion by the SA...
