Elephant Protection: Bridging Conservation, Communities, Capital - EnviroNews - Latest Environment News, Climate Change, Renewable Energy

Elephant protection: Bridging conservation, communities, capital - EnviroNews - latest environment news, climate change, renewable energy

The Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) Foundation’s friend of the month is Alexander Stonor, an Africa-based Franco-British sustainability, environmental, social and governance (ESG) consultant. Alex aims to provide clarity and insights to his clients on the risks and opportunities of addressing sustainability, environmental, social and governance issues. Previously, he worked as a humanitarian worker in India, an intelligence analyst in the U…

Pangolins, Elephants: Crime Networks Wiping Out Wild Africa

Wildlife trafficking across southern Africa is a tangled web of corruption, organized crime and system failures eroding conservation efforts, feeding smuggling.

Millions of pangolins, 193,000 elephants — how crime networks are hollowing out Africa’s wilderness

By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick A new investigative report has laid bare the scale and complexity of wildlife trafficking across southern Africa, exposing a tangled web of corruption, organised crime and systemic failures that are eroding conservation efforts and fuelling illicit markets. Disruption and Disarray: An analysis of pangolin scale and ivory trafficking, 2015-2024 by the Wildlife Justice Commission is one of the most comprehensive exa…