March 4, 2025

Pauline Ronoh & Green Rising
March 04, 2025

Dear subscribers, welcome to the new incarnation of the Elephant News Service. Today, Congo-Brazzaville and Madagascar are joining forces to protect their primary forests—vital ecosystems teeming with rare wildlife—against deforestation threats. Meanwhile, AI is playing a growing role in conservation, helping safeguard the delicate web of life on our planet. Best regards, The Elephant News Service team

Madagascar and Congo-Brazzaville team up to protect vanishing forests

inkl, March 3, 2025

Congo-Brazzaville and Madagascar are combining efforts to protect their primary forests, which support rich ecosystems and rare wildlife but face increasing threats from deforestation. The countries marked the launch of their conservation drive by planting 3,000 trees in Madagascar on Monday, African Environment Day.

Animals Crossing: AI Helps Protect Wildlife Across the Globe

Angie Lee, nvidia, March 3, 2025

From Seattle, Washington, to Cape Town, South Africa — and everywhere around and between — AI is helping conserve the wild plants and animals that make up the intricate web of life on Earth. Among Ai2’s efforts with EarthRanger is the planned development of a machine learning model — trained using NVIDIA Hopper GPUs in the cloud — that predicts the movement of elephants in areas close to human-wildlife boundaries where elephants could raid crops and potentially prompt humans to retaliate.

Sharing South Africa with elephants: new strategy calls for a major rethink

Don Pinnock, Daily Maverick, March 3, 2025

A sustainable future for elephants has to work alongside human social development if they’re to survive in South Africa’s rapidly changing landscape. That’s the core message of a strategy proposal issued for public discussion by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment.

MPs urge GRN to adopt Tanzania’s wildlife conflict strategies

Erasmus Shalihaxwe, Windhoek Observer, March 4, 2025

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources has recommended that the government officials learn from Tanzania’s approach to managing human-wildlife conflict. This recommendation follows a benchmark visit by members of parliament to Tanzania last year to study strategies and policies there. The committee’s report highlights that Tanzania commonly relocates problem animals, such as elephants and crocodiles, to areas far away from human habitats.

Mozambique: Poaching “virtually under control”

Club of Mozambique, March 4, 2025

The general director of Mozambique’s National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC), Pejul Calenga, believes that poaching in the country is now virtually under control. “10 or 15 years ago, we were losing between 1,000 and 1,500 elephants every year”, said Calenga, interviewed by Radio Mozambique on Monday. “But currently the losses are less than 100 a year”.

Celebrating the wild

WWF Cameroon, March 3, 2025

In the dense, lush forests of the Congo Basin, iconic African species such as forest🐘 elephants, chimpanzees🦧, and gorillas🦍 thrive. Today, on World Wildlife Day, there is much to celebrate: We are on the right track✅👍🏽, we are making great strides towards nature's recovery