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1 week ago |
africanelephantjournal.com | Adam Cruise
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick:At a recent Parliamentary Committee hearing the tourism board claimed that there are too many elephants in Madikwe and that overpopulation threatens biodiversity and leads to habitat degradation. And yet, there is no published scientific data on whether that translates as ‘too many’ or whether there is indeed a negative impact on Madikwe’s biodiversity. ephants face a grim future in the Madikwe Game Reserve amid claims that there are too many.
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1 week ago |
dailymaverick.co.za | Adam Cruise
Elephants face a grim future in the Madikwe Game Reserve amid claims that there are too many. The North West Parks and Tourism Board has proposed the imminent culling of 500 elephants and up to 1,200 out of a population of about 1,600 elephants over the next decade. However, this is a plan that is opaque, onerous and lacking scientific basis. Don't want to see this?
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2 weeks ago |
dailymaverick.co.za | Adam Cruise
ANIMAL WELFARE OP-ED A Seaforth, Cape Town, baboon named Mary. Her youngster, Shadow, was killed in a September 2023 shooting.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
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