Thula Thula Expansion
Elephants are a keystone species and as such protect the ecosystems they live in. Their conservation is therefore all-important for maintaining much of Africa's magnificent flora and fauna.
EAZA and Wild Elephant Conservation
The European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA) is not the solution to ending miserable lives of captive animals, teaching children about wild animal nature or making real contributions to preventing their extinction.
Namibian Elephant Corridor
A green corridor of 20 km connects the national park of Mudumu bordering the Zambezi Kavango reserve, thus opening access to the largest potential nature reserve on the planet: More than 500 000 square kms in Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia.
Wildlife Trafficking
Denying wild animals the right to live a dignified life within their communities should not be called trade, since all of it, legal or illegal, more accurately should be defined as criminal trafficking.
Oil prospecting and trophy hunting in Namibia
While Namibia awkwardly camouflages its quest for increased government revenues behind claims for wildlife conservation, reducing human wildlife conflict and diminishing poverty of its rural population, the government's current policies will achieve the opposite.
Elephant Rights
The courageous attempts of some dedicated attorneys for elephants and other animals to be recognized as legal persons with corresponding rights and obligations might not be in the best interest of elephants.
Ivory Trade and Trophy Hunting
Under the guise of promoting that Africa must develop one voice on conservation for their wild and endangered animal species, African journalists are encouraged to support ivory trading, trophy hunting and trade of live wild animals. Could this really be the new position of the African Wildlife Foundation, as expressed by their spokesperson Dr. Alistair Pole?
Elephants or Oil
Recon Africa's exploratory oil well, illegally drilled within a Namibian conservancy is close to the Okavango Delta, home to the largest herd of elephants in Africa. A site of 5 football fields was bulldozed, leaving drilling waste pits, metal seismic testing plate imprints and ripped out trees in black piles.
Space for African elephants
While there is more than enough space for wild African elephants, the false argument that there is simply not enough territory to sustain the 300,000 to 400,000 remaining wild elephants on the African continent, is used to justify their elimination.
African Elephants in Chinese Zoos
Unless a complete ban on trading live elephants outside their natural range can be agreed upon and respected by CITES signatories, elephants will continue to be commoditized.
