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Editor's note
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African elephants have been decimated by poaching in recent decades. Yet in the few places where they are well protected, their numbers have grown to the point where elephants have become a nuisance and other species are suffering. This means surplus animals are sometimes moved to other parks that have capacity for more elephants. One of the largest such “translocations” in history is happening right now, from a nature reserve in South Africa to Zinave National Park in Mozambique. Writing for The Conversation Africa, Matt Hayward looks at what it takes to move 200 elephants 1,500km.
US President Donald Trump has been forwarding a protectionist economic agenda, with an ongoing trade dispute with China. But he recently stepped back from the brink of a trade war with the EU. Felix Arndt outlines why concern for US tech giants could be one reason for this volte face.
Brazil has long presented itself as a “racial democracy”, a diverse society whose primary problem is economic inequality, not racism. But in his study of online abuse, Luiz Valerio P. Trindade says black Brazilian women face particularly virulent racist and sexist abuse on social media – and the abuse seems to be getting worse as black women break through social and economic barriers.
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Will de Freitas
Environment + Energy Editor
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An elephant successfully translocated by SAN Parks from Kruger National Park to Addo Elephant National Park.
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Matt Hayward, University of Newcastle
Translocations have become more frequent in Africa. Elephants are the biggest animals to be moved.
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Deal makers.
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Felix Arndt, De Montfort University
The US tech giants are increasingly in the EU's regulatory crosshairs.
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Defiant: a demonstrator joins an anti-racism protest in São Paulo.
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Luiz Valerio P. Trindade, University of Southampton
As Brazil's black women become more conspicuous and powerful, they are bullied and threatened in social media's modern-day pillory.
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Politics + Society
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Lambros Fatsis, University of Southampton
The policing of black British culture has a long history.
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