(Posted 09th May 2025)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
| Gerald Imray, Independent, May 8, 2025 |
| A devastating incident in South Africa’s Kruger National Park has left at least 123 vultures dead after they ate a poisoned elephant carcass. Poachers are suspected of lacing the elephant with agricultural pesticides, leading to the mass poisoning. |
| Read more (Independent, Devdicourse) |
EPI boosted by key African appointments as Ikeazor chairs Board |
| EnviroNews, May 6, 2025 |
| The Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) Foundation has appointed two of Africa’s most eminent conservation leaders to its Board of Trustees: Nigeria’s former Minister of State for the Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, and Professor Lee White, who is Gabon’s former Minister of Water, Forests, the Sea and the Environment. |
| Read more (2 min) |
How the loss of experienced individual elephants stops knowledge transfer between generations |
| Phys org, May 2, 2025 |
| The research, led by the University of Portsmouth, shows that human disturbance makes elephant herds vulnerable by disrupting the critical role of social learning from older elephants. These severely disrupted populations are less cohesive, may exhibit reduced fitness or calf survival, and respond inappropriately to threats and predators. |
| Read more (2 min) |
