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Some ranches are effectively battery farms CREDIT: FERGUS THOMAS he growing appetite for ‘conservation holidays’ has shone a light on the dark…
Minister Priscah Mupfumira Kavango-Zambezi Trans-Frontier Conservation Area (KAZA-TFCA) countries have resolved to adopt a scientific wildlife management system in national…
On April 11, Chief Magistrate Francis Kyambia is set to make judgement in a Mombasa, Kenya court on the ivory…
The Government of Philip Nyusi, which has as one of its priorities “Ensuring the Sustainable and Transparent Management of Natural…
Starting July 1, anyone in Japan who wishes to register and sell a whole elephant tusk must first prove its…
This encyclopaedic book sends out a powerful message to give elephants the highest protection status, writes Elise Tempelhoff. The LAST…
The Serengeti-Mara ecosystem is home to the famous wildebeest migration. Susan Schmitz/Shutterstock The 40,000 sq km Serengeti-Mara plain that straddles the…
The life of an elephant that faces being shot for being a ‘nuisance’ is hanging in the balance as animal…
Namibia’s current and Kenya’s former ministers for environment engaged in a lively discussion about the polarising issue of trophy hunting…
Sub-Saharan Africa has enormous tourism potential: leopards lounging in acacia trees, elephant herds drifting across vast savannah plains, gorillas and…
A local environmental and wildlife organisation People and Earth Solidarity Law Network (PES Lawyers) together with six others in Zimbabwe,…
“By shutting down the movement of ivory of unknown origin, the domestic market is moving closer to an effective closure,”…
Once cubs in captivity get too big to be stroked and cuddled by tourists, they’re sold into the canned hunting…
Members of the National People’s Congress, China’s legislature, announced a proposal to ban the use of pangolin products, the world’s…
Non-governmental and conservation organizations are highly upset that the Department of Environmental Affairs has not shown the “political will” to…
The Government of Botswana is considering significant changes to the country’s approach to wildlife management.The proposed policy reflects a worrying…
Photo credit: WILL BURRARD-LUCAS For more than 60 years, the elephant known as F_MU1, roamed the plains of Tsavo, Kenya.…
In an article to mark World Wildlife Day, Leith Meyer, a veterinarian at the University of Pretoria, writes about the…
HordynskiPhotography/Shutterstock Vicky Boult, University of Reading Africa’s elephant population has plummeted from roughly a million in 1970 to around 400,000…
Botswana has about 122,000 elephants left. Mike Dexter/Shutterstock Ross Harvey, South African Institute of International Affairs Botswana has an elephant…