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Commentary
Botswana’s wildlife management fails communities — report
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick Investigation shows that trophy hunting in Botswana continues to impoverish local communities, causes the decline in species and heightens human-elephant conflict situations. A forensic study into Botswana’s Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) conservation system has found it to be failing the people and wildlife it was designed to support. The latest report, by researcher Dr Adam Cruise, confirms and builds on a 2016 review that found most CBNRMs were either not functioning at all or were on the verge of collapse due to...
Trophy hunting incentivises killing of endangered animals, warns Zambian environmentalist
By Tracy Keeling - The Canary Germany has become the latest European country to announce a potential ban on the import of hunting trophies. The move comes as those who support the practice have increased pressure on European politicians to continue with the status quo. And they argue that ‘Africa isn’t being heard’ on the issue. The Canary spoke with the co-founder of environmental NGO Mizu Eco-Care in Zambia to hear his thoughts on the subject. Timothy Kamuzu Phiri said he belongs to the school of thought that values wild animals while they’re alive, not...
News
Botswana’s wildlife management fails communities — report
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick Investigation shows that trophy hunting in Botswana continues to impoverish local communities, causes the decline in species and heightens human-elephant conflict...
Ivory from at least 150 poached elephants seized in the DRC raid
By Malavika Vyawahare - Mongabay A three-year investigation has led authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to 2 metric tons of ivory hidden in a stash house in the southern city of...
Trophy hunting incentivises killing of endangered animals, warns Zambian environmentalist
By Tracy Keeling - The Canary Germany has become the latest European country to announce a potential ban on the import of hunting trophies. The move comes as those who support the practice...
Press releases
Press Release: CITES Standing Committee Agrees that Countries Must Continue to Report on their Domestic Ivory Markets
The Standing Committee of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), at its meeting in Lyon, France, today agreed that countries must continue to report on their domestic ivory markets. CITES Decision 18.117, adopted in 2019, directed...
Studies
New techniques for retrieving fingerprints from ivory to mitigate poaching
By King's College London, Phys.org The use of new techniques for retrieving...
First assessment of metabolites in African savanna elephants
By Phys.org North Carolina State University researchers have conducted the...
Brain size determined the chances of survival among large animals
By EurekAlert Researchers at Tel Aviv University, and the University of...
Reports
Legal Opinion on CITES Rules on Exports of Live African Elephants from Namibia
CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA (CITES) Seventy-fourth meeting of the Standing Committee Lyon (France), 7 - 11 March 2022 This document has been submitted by Burkina Faso in relation to agenda item 50. According to SC74 Doc. 50 §9, at AC31, the...
About
The Journal of African Elephants was created by a group of concerned journalists, biologists and conservationists, who, after years of tracking and documenting the catastrophic decline of Africa’s elephant populations, have recognised the urgent need for a dedicated English and French news and commentary space to enhance and increase global awareness of the plight of Africa’s savanna and forest elephants. Our Commentary service, in particular, are writers that focus on the need to provide awareness of Africa’s elephants and affected surrounding human communities from a distinctly African perspective that, for the most part, is lacking in the dominance of Western media.