Approved Thailand Tests Birth Control to Reduce Elephant Encounters
In wildlife management, birth control is rarely an effective tool. Across most species, it is difficult to administer, hard to scale, and has limited long-term impact. Thailand’s current approach represents a rare exception in wildlife management. Last year in Thailand, wild elephants killed 30 people and damaged crops in more than 2,000 incidents. As elephant […]
Botswana Pushes Back on Western Conservation
A growing rift between African conservation priorities and Western wildlife policy reached a dramatic new level when Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany. The unusual proposal is Botswana’s response to Germany’s recent push for stricter regulations on the import of hunting trophies, particularly from iconic species like elephants. The dispute […]