Stories & galleries

Elephant identification is a difficult task – but a new system based on ear patterns is making the task easier – research by Elephants Alive

Is political pride hurting efforts to stop rhino poaching in Botswana? Reports from the field suggest that rhino poaching in Botswana has reached crisis point while the government denies this is the case.

CEO note: Just in case + fences & elephants

Fantastic images from our Photographer of the Year 2021. Enter now to win US$10,000 cash and a Botswana safari

If all the money, time, blood and sweat fails to save our wild rhinos, Hemmersbach has a solution. The rhino Cryovault holds repositories of rhino DNA, gametes, and tissues preserved indefinitely.

Dr Erik Verreynne discusses the claim that fences are an underlying cause of the elephant mortalities in NG11/12 in 2020 in Botswana. His assessment, based on observation of elephants, the habitat and the actual state of the fences, concludes that there is little evidence to suggest fences stop elephant migration in Seronga or that they had a measurable effect on the 2020 die-off.

CEO note: Diamonds, rhino horn and elephant auctions

Fantastic images from our Photographer of the Year 2021. Enter now to win US$10,000 cash and a Botswana safari

Nyungwe National Park is one of Rwanda’s best kept secrets – a magical tract of montane forest bursting with extraordinary biodiversity

Namibian elephant auction: We look at the background, reasons and context of the controversial sale by auction of 170 wild-caught elephants

CEO note: Epic images + livestock loss compensation

Compensation given for damage causing animals on the western boundary of the greater Kruger National Park – a contested and emotive issue