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Crucial Summit Will Attempt to Halt Slaughter of Elephants
An emergency summit on the illegal ivory trade will take place in Botswana from December 2 in an urgent attempt to…
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Death in China, one dollar in Africa – the irony of ivory poaching penalties
In China the penalty for poaching an elephant is death. In Africa, it is considerably less. The irony in this…
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Elephants are revered, yet we hack off their tusks
We have been incorporating elephants into our lives since humans first became…well…humans. The earliest known San rock paintings depict elephants,…
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US to destroy its ivory stockpile
Five tonnes of illicit trinkets to go under the crusher, but legal muddles still allow US citizens to trade in…
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Pirates and poaching in East Africa
A recent report on Transnational Organized Crime in East Africa confirms the shocking statistics pertaining to the elephant poaching crisis in…
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A-Grade Ecotourism
Simply put, habitat destruction occurs when functioning natural habitats or ecosystems are degraded to the extent that they can no…
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Onthou die olifante
Regoor die wereld vier mense wat omgee op 12 Augustus die vader van die aarde se diere, die olifant. ‘n…
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We could live in a world that has only the Big Three
The African elephant is facing its gravest crisis since the 1980s when between 600 000 and 800 000 animals were killed in a poaching spree. Surveys and data…
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Elephants in the firing line
The current plight of Africa’s rhino population, as disturbing as it is, pales in comparison to a much less widely…
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Elephanticide
In 1989, after two decades in which the world’s elephant population was halved, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species…
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Remember the Elephants
On World Elephant Day we are reminded that poaching is a growing concern across much of Africa. Though attempts at…
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Cites – Ineptitude In An Ivory Tower
Today marks the beginning of a new struggle. A large section of South Africans are in grave and mortal danger.…
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Dispelling Misconceptions
The trophy hunting industry’s dismissal of its opponents as ‘animal rightists’ is just one of several misconceptions that do it…
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Making a Killing
The roads to environmental infamy are not easy to follow. On a bumpy dirt track among rickety stilted houses near…
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So Long, and thanks for taking all the fish
It may come as something of a shock to those of us who’ve visited the penguin colonies just outside Cape…
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The Wonder of Elephants
The world’s largest land animal – with a brain bigger than ours and similar family values – has been worshipped…
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Sable Shenanigans
In Zambia’s newest national park, on the outskirts of its capital Lusaka, live more than 200 sable antelope. Coralled in…