Environment

By Chris Lang, Conservation Watch, 25 September 2018

Recently the NGO Elephants Without Borders claimed to have discovered 87 elephant carcasses in Botswana. The founder of Elephants Without Borders, Mike Chase, told the BBC…

Conservation Watch, 15 August 2018

Paige West is the Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University. Since the 1990s she has worked with indigenous peoples…

By Chris Lang, Conservation Watch, 8 August 2018

The Sengwer are indigenous people who live in the Embobut forest, in the Cherangani Hills, in western Kenya. Since British colonial rule they have faced violent…

By Chris Lang, Conservation Watch, 23 July 2018

“How Conservation became Colonialism” is the title of a recent article by journalist Alexander Zaitchik published by Foreign…

By Chris Lang, Conservation Watch, 20 July 2018

By Chris Lang, Conservation Watch, 22 June 2018

In May 2018, three very similar articles about the ivory trade in Gabon appeared in British newspapers. The hook was a team of British soldiers, in…