by Adam Cruise | Aug 5, 2020 | News
By Tracy Keeling – The Canary Zimbabwe loaded 32 baby elephants onto a China-bound plane in October 2019. It had sold off the young animals, who it had separated from their wild families a year earlier, to an unnatural and torturous life in zoos. Zimbabwe...
by Adam Cruise | Feb 29, 2020 | News
By Don Hopey, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium last year spearheaded an unsuccessful effort to capture and export to the U.S. as many as 28 wild, juvenile African elephants from Zimbabwe. According to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 19, 2019 | Commentary
By Audrey Delsink (Wildlife Director, Human Society International/Africa), Dr. Keith Lindsay (Collaborating Researcher, Amboseli Trust for Elephants), Adam Cruise (PhD candidate: Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Dr. Ross Harvey (Independent Economist,...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 18, 2019 | News
By Jack Guy and Columbus S. Mavhunga, CNN Harare (CNN)Wildlife activists in Zimbabwe are pushing to halt an alleged plan to sell 35 baby elephants to China and Pakistan as part of an ongoing row over wildlife exports.The sale has been in the works since last year,...