Today’s risk universe includes black swans and gray rhinos, highlighting the need for boards to better support their organizations in prioritizing resilience. This requires anticipating emerging and material risks as well as strengthening oversight of talent and culture. Helping to drive progress in ...
000 species of plants and animals are traded illicitly, and the trafficking is worth up to US $23-billion annually. It is the fourth-largest illegal market, and many animals, such as rhinos, pangolins, and some species of parrots and sharks, are at risk of extinction due to their ...
The benefit of this method is that I can include three big ideas about the problems and then counter each of them with a specific solution. The drawback of course is that I cannot go into much detail. This will be more of a problem for the solution section because obviously issues like ...
The benefit of having an outside-in understanding of trends and comparing that to the inside-out focus of the company allows board members to have a full picture of the focus, risks and need for investment in innovation. As one director noted, “You need trust and transparency to really ...
“attempted to mount” the rhinos.) “The loss of older elephants and the extreme psychological and physical trauma of witnessing the massacres of their family members interferes with a young elephant’s normal development,” a psychologist named Gay Bradshaw toldNational Geographic; the article ...
so you’ll have to do your research to make sure you’ll be visiting the regions of the park that you want to see. The benefit of visiting a landmass of this size is the potential to see large herds of animals in their migration, like theGreat Wildebeest Migrationin Tanzania’s Serenget...
At this point, you might be thinking, ‘Well, this is all well and good, but where are the hyenas’That itch can be(metaphorically)scratched at uMkhuze, where the screeching beasts congregate in the dense scrubland, along with rhinos and elephants. This reserve is also home to more than ...
IMPACT REPORT 2014-2015 "We are in our infancy as humans. We think we know this place, but we don't. We think we under- stand how things work, but we don't. That's why exploration is so fundamentally important." LEE BERGER National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence CONTENTS Letter...
Rhinos are disappearing from southern Africa at an alarming rate. This is not a case of indirect habitat loss. These are humans going out and shooting them to chop off their horns and sell them as traditional medicine in Asian markets. ...
Elephants are only ridden at Chitwan as a way to try and see Indian rhinos and Bengal tigers – both species are highly endangered and reside in Chitwan’s buffer zone. Still, I was a little concerned that so many people were being asked to board a single elephant: groups of four, five...