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By Dr Daniel Stiles Key Takeaways * The 2008-2018 ivory crisis was widely thought to be over, but a run of large 2026 seizures suggests otherwise. * Four major busts this year (Zambia, Tanzania, Vietnam, Laos) point to organized crime, not isolated incidents. * With seizures estimated at only ~10% of trafficked
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By Nick Roden In July 2025, I flew to South Africa with a camera bag full of equipment and a fairly straightforward job: document the training of a new anti-poaching team for Pro Track. The training officially began on 30 July and finished with the passing-out parade on
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Danny Banda is the game ranger manager at Nyamvu Safaris in Zambia. Danny grew up in one of the villages around the reserve and joined as a ranger in 2011. Today he runs its anti-poaching operation — the senior man over every scout in the field, some of whom once
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On an ordinary day in a Botswana wildlife reserve in 2015, a camera trap caught a leopard doing something extraordinary. She was moving along a track she knew well. Nothing stood in her way. No dogs. No electric fences. No one with a rifle. And then she stopped, turned, and