Emma Ledger Tshekedi Khama becomes Patron of Rhino Conservation Botswana
The Minister of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism joins the charity to help further strengthen its great work
Campaigns
Marco Salustro Living in limbo in Libya
A piece by award-winning filmmaker Marco Salustro, published in Index on Censorship's latest issue, describes the journalistic challenges of covering the plight of the thousands of migrants who have fled sub-Saharan Africa and are now being held in Libya
Emma Ledger Profile on UNDP Global Wildlife lead Paul Harrison
As the third Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference approaches, the time has come for real action, not just rhetoric, from the world’s leaders
Oliver Poole Uganda's courtroom rangers
A new collaboration is launched to train Uganda Wildlife Authority officers to tackle poachers in the courtroom
Emma Ledger Kenya leads the way in bringing poachers to justice
Kenya has sent a strong message that it will no longer tolerate wildlife crime by convicting an ivory poaching ‘king pin’ called Feisal Mohamed Ali.
An extract from Anna Politkovskaya, a decade after her assassination
An extract from an interview with Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, published in Index on Censorship magazine in 2005, the year before she was murdered for her work. On the 10th anniversary of death, it has been included within a special report on her legacy in Index on Censorship's latest issue
Dunja Mijatović What would Anna Politkovskaya tell us today?
Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated on this day ten years ago. She was shot four times, and the fatal shot was fired at her head in a lift in her Moscow apartment building.
Emma Ledger Botswana praised for dramatic switch to protect elephants
The nation’s U-turn has intensified pressure on the global community to act now to protect elephants, before it’s too late
Oliver Poole Space for Giants, ICCF and Stop Ivory unite to bring poachers to justi
The three organisations will work together with African governments to strengthen criminal justice systems in order to clamp down on wildlife crime
Helen Clark Illicit wildlife trafficking is about people - they alone can fix it
The latest CITES meeting on 24 September in Johannesburg will be one of the most critical meetings in the Convention’s 43 year history
Nelson Ngusaru Education is key in the fight to save our elephants
BAFTA award-winning app, Virry, will use live streamed footage from Lewa Conservancy in Kenya to teach children around the world about the threats facing endangered species.
Ian Johnston Elephant numbers in ‘deeply disturbing’ decline on African savannah
‘We share a collective responsibility to take action and we must all work to ensure the preservation of this iconic species’
Jack Rutlege Many front-line wildlife rangers lacking basic insurance
A WWF report revealed a large proportion of rangers have no health insurance, life insurance or long term disability cover
Daisy Fletcher Space for Giants proposes new measures to prosecute poachers in Southe
Fulfilling pledges promised at the Giants Club Summit, conservationists canvas innovative legal strategies to tackle wildlife crime
Daisy Fletcher Giants Club helps lock up Ugandan poachers
Fulfilling pledges promised at the Giants Club Summit, conservationists work with the UN and Ugandan officials to develop legal guidelines to strengthen poaching prosecutions
Will Gore Foreign media must speak out for the stifled Turkish press
For the media in this country to give Erdoğan a free pass would be a gross failing, not least in the eyes of independent Turkish journalists whose work has been hampered by the serious erosion of press freedom in their homeland
Emilia Hungerford What the Giants Club Summit Achieved
Over 200 people attended the Summit in Laikipia, Kenya, which raised over $5 million dollars in support of Giants Club's iniatives across Africa
Abraham T. Zere The life of a state journalist in Eritrea
Journalist Abraham T. Zere has been identified as a 'security threat', and watched his colleagues go to prison. Now exiled in the USA, he reveals the dangers facing writers in the "world's most censored country"
Mike Pflanz Giants Club builds 100 mile fence in Kenya to protect elephant populat
Paul and Elizabeth Njoroge's farm in central Kenya is a fertile five acres on a steep slope where crops flourish enough that the family should be relatively wealthy.
Oliver Poole Giants Club fights back
Countries in Africa where the illegal ivory trade is rampant are coming together to retaliate. In this special collection of images, celebrated photographer Johnnie Shand Kydd chronicles the inaugural events of this initiative