by Adam Cruise | Mar 24, 2021 | News
By Bloomberg Botswana is offering rights to shoot 287 elephants as the southern African country, which has the world’s biggest population of the animals, tries to breathe life into a hunting industry stalled by the Covid-19 outbreak. The hunting season will begin...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 27, 2020 | News
By Antony Sguazzin, Bloomberg Botswana’s controversial plan to resume elephant hunting has been largely thwarted by the global coronavirus pandemic, winning many of the 277 animals earmarked to be shot this year a reprieve. The country, which has the world’s biggest...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 16, 2020 | News
By Charan Saunders, All Africa CAPE TOWN: Unethical hunting has exposed a community to dangerous, aggressive elephants rather than solving Human Elephant Conflict (HEC). Following the recent killing of a collared elephant, along with four others in shootings in North...
by Adam Cruise | Jun 1, 2019 | Commentary
By Ross Harvey – Independent Economist; PhD Candidate, University of Cape Town – Conservation Action Trust Botswana has now committed to a policy built on myths, while the rest of the world takes stock of the implications ecological crisis. Botswana’s...
