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Africa: 'Too Many Elephants'? Here's How Peaceful Coexistence With Human Communities Can Help
The Conversation Africa, 4 March 2019
Africa's elephant population has plummeted from roughly a million in 1970 to around 400,000 today - a decline which is largely blamed on poaching for their ivory tusks. At its peak… Read more »
How Elephants and People Can Live Together in Peace
Elephants play a crucial role in Africa's savanna ecosystems as seed dispersers. Their dung recycles valuable nutrients and by feeding on trees they maintain the savanna's matrix of woodland and grassland and the biodiversity it supports, writes Vicky Boult for The Conversation Africa.
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Botswana: New Survey Raises Concerns About Elephant Poaching
The Conversation Africa, 26 February 2019
Botswana has an elephant poaching problem. The numbers far exceed previous years according to a new survey. The survey was conducted between July and October 2018 by conservation… Read more »
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South Africa: Meet Oupoot, the Only Elephant Left in the Entire Knysna Forest
News24Wire, 15 February 2019
Where a herd of elephant a thousand strong once roamed the mighty Knysna forest and surrounding regions at the southern tip of Africa until the 1800s and 1900s, a single cow now… Read more »
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Botswana: Elephants Bleed Govt Coffers
Botswana Daily News, 3 March 2019
Government is indirectly subsidising and financing Botswana's elephant population and inadvertently the harm and damage caused by the species, President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi has… Read more »
InFocus
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Prince Harry who is the president of African Parks, an animal conservation charity, has offered to support a deal with Botswana to move 500 - 1,000 elephants to Zambia, which could ... Read more »
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Parks around the continent have embarked on an unusual high-tech experiment to curb poaching. Flying silently and invisibly, drones could be a game-changer as they track both ... Read more »
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Botswana, which has the largest population of elephants in Africa, is considering whether to lift the ban on hunting of those animals and other big game. Read more »
