REPORTS
These detailed reports cover
important conservation issues,
highlighting the urgent need for
action to safeguard the survival of
vulnerable species.
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Elephant Norms and Standards: Challenges, Changes and Implementation
INTRODUCTION: At a recent stakeholder meeting called by the Department of Environmental Affairs to...
Slayed in Iceland: The commercial hunting and international trade in endangered fin whales
INTRODUCTION: The fin whale is the second largest species on the planet – a giant at more than 20...
Illegal killing for ivory drives global decline in African Elephants
INTRODUCTION: Ivory-seeking poachers have killed 100,000 African elephants in just three years,...
Legal Ivory Trade in a Corrupt World and its Impact on African Elephant Populations
INTRODUCTION: Illegal hunting of African elephants for ivory is causing rapid declines in their...
Wildlife policy matters: inclusion and exclusion by means of organisational and discursive boundaries
As a result of shifting wildlife policy, approximately one-sixth of South Africa’s total land has...
A Review of the Economic Analysis of Wildlife Trade
INTRODUCTION: Illegal trade of wildlife has been recognised as an important driver of biodiversity...
[VIDEO]: International Rhino Coalition concludes trade in rhino horn is too risky
INTRODUCTION: This video addresses the dire effects the legal rhino horn trade could have on the...
Why burn ivory stockpiles? – a summary from Stop Ivory
INTRODUCTION: Ivory stockpiles are being burnt around the globe this year, thick plumes of grey...
Assessing the Risks of Rhino Horn Trade
INTRODUCTION: In April 2014 economists, conservationists, researchers, consumer state...
The role of elephant pathways as a spatial variable in crop-raiding
INTRODUCTION: Research conducted in the Caprivi Strip, Namibia investigates the relevance of...
Dead or alive? Comparing costs and benefits of lethal and non-lethal human-wildlife conflict mitigation on livestock farms
INTRODUCTION: A three year study across eleven livestock farms in South Africa has found non...
Ivory’s Curse: The Militarization & Professionalization of Poaching in Africa
In recent years significant criminal syndicates and organized terrorist gangs have engaged in...
The status quo of compliance monitoring and enforcement of biodiversity and conservation legislation in South Africa
INTRODUCTION: This report by the Endangered Wildlife Trust represents the summary findings of an...
The viability of legalising trade in rhino horn in South Africa
INTRODUCTION: In 2010 the Department of Environmental Affairs commissioned a feasibility study to...
Community involvement and joint operations aid effective anti-poaching
SUMMARY: Wayne Lotter and Krissie Clark look at how a community in Tanzania have managed to curb...
In Cold Blood – Combating organised wildlife crime
A report examining international wildlife crime case histories, considering the successes and...
Rhinos-From South Africa to China, A Troubling Timeline
Link to download the report here: http://annamiticus.com/Reports/TroublingTimeline.pdf
Aerial Census of Large Animals in the Ruaha-Rungwa and Selous Ecosystems 2013 Population status of African Elephant
INTRODUCTION Aerial survey was conducted in the Ruaha-Rungwa ecosystem during the dry season of...