Botswana has a growing population of humans and cattle, not elephants. Outside protected areas, desertification caused by cattle over-grazing too often gets ignored. Hunting will...
The Great Elephant Debate: Myth-busting jumbo fallacies
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FEATURE Zoos Called It a ‘Rescue.’ But Are the Elephants Really Safe?
Despite mounting evidence that elephants find captivity torturous, some American zoos still acquire them from Africa — aided by a tall tale about why they needed to leave home....
Botswana trophy hunting poached 385 elephants
At least 385 elephants were poached in the last year, however the Botswana government has just set an annual quota of 400 elephants to be killed by trophy hunters and...
Botswana elephant poaching ‘no hoax’
Elephants Without Borders, who conducted an aerial research survey in Botswana, has had their wildlife research licence suspended by the Botswana government. See original...
Elephant mystique lingers (South Africa)
This image from a SANParks camera trap survey shows the adult female elephant that was repeatedly identified. SANParks has long held that only a single, elderly elephant clings...
Zimbabwe: Selling elephants to questionable Chinese destinations damages country’s tourism, say critics
By the time Zimbabwe’s new political winds of change reach its wildlife practices – the heart of its potential tourism industry – they appear to ebb to a light Chinese breeze. It...
International concern over welfare of wild baby elephants in trade
Cape Town - Regulations governing the extensive trade in wild caught baby elephants require only that they are housed in suitably equipped facilities, in appropriate and...
Challenges to CITES regulation of the International Trade in live, wild-caught African elephants
CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA Sixty-ninth meeting of the Standing Committee Geneva (Switzerland), 27 November -1 December...
Status of elephant populations, levels of illegal killing and the trade in ivory: A report to the CITES Standing Committee
Introduction Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP17) on Trade in elephant specimens, in paragraph 11, directs the Secretariat, pending the necessary external funding, to: (a) report...
Elephant cake wins ‘Cake Oscar’
SA master baker has won an international 2017 Cake Master Awards for her life-size elephant and calf cake South African master baker Dot Klerck has won the Best Showpiece award...
Eco-scamming: Making a killing on kindness
While many good people and fine organisations raise public funds to support conservation, there are others who use conservation issues to raise money for themselves. The...
Speculating a Fire Sale: Options for Chinese Authorities in Implementing a Domestic Ivory Trade Ban
Highlights • If ivory speculators in China believe that the domestic ivory trade ban will be finite, they will continue to hoard ivory. • Under a finite ban, speculator...
Zimbabwe ships live elephants to wildlife parks in China
Wildlife advocates said the animals, which were being readied for shipment on Friday night, were unsuitable for live export Elephants in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park....
Estimating economic losses to tourism in Africa from the illegal killing of elephants
Abstract: Recent surveys suggest tens of thousands of elephants are being poached annually across Africa, putting the two species at risk across much of their range. Although the...
Desert elephant controversy reignited after hunter trampled
The trampling of a Namibian trophy hunter by an elephant has reignited the heated debate around hunting permits issued for the country’s gravely endangered desert elephants. In a...