by Talking Humanities | Sep 10, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features
Professor Keith Somerville investigates the mysterious deaths of more than 300 elephants in Zimbabwe and Botswana. The Botswana Department of Wildlife and National parks (DWNP) has finally announced that they believe the cause of around 330 previously unexplained...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 5, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Politics & Law
Professor Keith Somerville, a writer and lecturer on African affairs, warns those interested in the truth about ivory poaching and smuggling to treat with extreme caution the recent stories in The Mirror and Independent, and repeated by the Environmental Investigation...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 25, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features
In the last of his series on the rhino horn trade debate, Professor Keith Somerville calls for a new and effective solution to protect these endangered animals. He says the ban on all trade, which has been in effect for 39 years, has not worked and maybe the answer is...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 26, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law, Republished
Image: African bush elephant skull, © JimJones1971 at English Wikipedia Professor Keith Somerville Ivory and elephants have for decades been very emotive topics among conservationists, wildlife departments and NGOs in states which have elephant populations and in...
