David Blanton

David Blanton is the founder and executive director of Friends of Serengeti, a nonprofit conservation association that works with travel companies to advance sustainable tourism.

September 10, 2026

Editor's Choice/News

Who Will Be Europe’s ‘Last Chance’?

Hitler was cornered in his Berlin bunker, desperate and approaching suicide, when he declared: “I am Europe’s last chance.” As a continent burned and lay devastated by his own actions, he still

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

Intelligence Warnings Before Ceuta’s Unprecedented Migration Surge

by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor The Spanish Government’s decision to declassify 40 reports and communications relating to the migration crisis in Ceuta offers an unusually detailed reconstruction of the days before, during and immediately after the mass irregular entry of

September 10, 2026

OpenAI Calls for AI Safety Rules as Its Agents Go Rogue

Business

OpenAI is calling for mandatory national artificial intelligence safety requirements in the United States, arguing that the rapid increase in AI capabilities has made

China’s AI Chip Ambition Hits a Memory Bottleneck

Business

China’s leading artificial intelligence chipmakers are sharply raising prices for current and next-generation processors as a global shortage of high-bandwidth memory squeezes efforts to

How Maasai Women’s Dairy Initiatives Protect Wildlife and Communities

September 23, 2025

Columns/Human Rights

The Serengeti—whose name means “endless plains” in the Maasai language—is one of the most renowned natural landscapes in the world. Spanning northern Tanzania and extending into southwestern Kenya, this vast ecosystem is home to

Tourism’s Role in Protecting Kenyan Wildlife

March 8, 2025

Geopolitics/Kenya/Social

The Serengeti ecosystem is regarded as one of our planet’s greatest natural treasures, where one can witness“the largest remaining unaltered animal migration in the world,” according to UNESCO. Kenya’s share of the Serengeti plains