Adam Cruise

Cape Town

Journalist at Freelance

Wildlife Journalist & author

Articles

Ukama: the interdependence of all that exists

2 weeks ago | africanelephantjournal.com | Adam Cruise

By Adam Cruise – The BateleursMany years ago, while camping in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, I discovered a relatively unknown African philosophical concept that epitomises how we should look at the natural environment. Ukama. I had arrived at a remote camp deep in the park to find an old Shona man living there.
SA government continues to defend odious trade in tigers

1 month ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Adam Cruise

BIG-CAT MISERY OP-ED A tiger in the wild. Between 2016 and 2021 nearly 200 live tigers were exported from South Africa.
Pie in the sky - why South Africa’s Draft Elephant Heritage Strategy won’t work

2 months ago | africanelephantjournal.com | Adam Cruise

By Adam Cruise – Daily MaverickThe draft strategy is skewed in favour of anthropocentric benefits – economic, spiritual and cultural – and cannot function in practical terms. South Africa’s Draft National Elephant Heritage Strategy, which closed to public comment at the end of February, demands that South Africa’s elephants must depend on human social and economic development for their future survival.
SA’s Draft Elephant Heritage Strategy

2 months ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Adam Cruise

WILD IDEA OP-ED The draft strategy is skewed in favour of anthropocentric benefits – economic, spiritual and cultural – and cannot function in practical terms. South Africa’s Draft National Elephant Heritage Strategy, which closed to public comment at the end of February, demands that South Africa’s elephants must depend on human social and economic development for their future survival.
Wildlife conservation: The silent, unseen, unknown and unvalued majority

2 months ago | africanelephantjournal.com | Adam Cruise

By Adam Cruise – The BateleursOne of the central pillars of wildlife conservation, particularly in southern Africa, is the notion that if wild species are to be conserved, they must have economic value. The basic thinking behind this concept is that if animals such as elephants, sable antelopes or lions could earn people money, they would tend to be preserved.
WWF Helping Facilitate Trade in Polar Bear Fur, Investigation Reveals

Feb 21, 2025 | rsn.org | Adam Cruise

Wildlife charity backs policy of exploitation of small number of some endangered species for economic purposes – such as trophy huntingThe wildlife charity WWF has been maintaining policies that work to support the trade in polar bear fur at the same time as using images of the bears to raise money, it can be revealed. Polar bears are severely affected by the loss of Arctic sea ice, which makes seeking prey harder and forces the bears to use more energy.
WWF helping facilitate trade in polar bear fur, investigation reveals

Feb 15, 2025 | theguardian.com | Adam Cruise

The wildlife charity WWF has been working to support the trade in polar bear fur at the same time as using images of the bears to raise money, it can be revealed. Polar bears are severely affected by the loss of Arctic sea ice, which makes seeking prey harder and forces the bears to use more energy. In some regions, polar bears are showing signs of declining physical condition, having fewer cubs, and dying younger.
South Africa: Battle of the Baboons - Years of Municipal Mismanagement Put Pringle Bay's Baboons in The Firing Line

Feb 10, 2025 | allafrica.com | Adam Cruise

Cape Town — On August 12, 2024 , Joey, the alpha male of the troop of baboons that occup ies the area around the seaside village of Pringle Bay in the picturesque Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, was shot and killed. He was one of four baboons purposely killed by residents in 2024. Two baboons were killed as a result of multiple pellet gun internal injuries - one was pregnant and almost full-term. Another baboon was seen being run over by a business owner in Pringle Bay.
All for one and one for all: The importance of maintaining trophic cascades

Dec 11, 2024 | africanelephantjournal.com | Adam Cruise

By Adam Cruise – The BateleursA trophic cascade is an ecological process which starts at the top of the food-chain and cascades all the way down to the bottom. African elephants, for example operate, in the natural landscape in this way. Biologists often refer to African elephants as ecosystem ‘architects’ and ‘gardeners’.
South Africa is The World's Largest Exporter of Live Tigers

Dec 5, 2024 | allafrica.com | Adam Cruise

Cape Town — South Africa is the world’s largest exporter of live tigers and their parts despite not having any captive-breeding facilities registered in terms of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). This is according to the new report by global animal welfare organization Four Paws entitled South Africa’s Out of Control Big Cat Industry.

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