
I’ve never understood the appeal of trophy hunting. You love wild animals so much that you want to kill them,…
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I’ve never understood the appeal of trophy hunting. You love wild animals so much that you want to kill them,…
This week, investigative journalist and author Julian Rademeyer revealed that the decision to submit a rhino horn trade proposal to the Convention…
The ongoing drought is taking its toll on South Africa’s wildlife. In the Kruger National Park, questions have been raised…
Does trophy hunting support wildlife conservation in Africa? The world’s most influential hunters’ association would like you to think so.…
At a press conference in Pretoria last Thursday, Edna Molewa, the Minister of Environmental Affairs and her colleagues from government’s…
In July, the illegal killing of Zimbabwe’s iconic lion Cecil re-ignited the debate over the desirability of trophy hunting in…
Travel conference organisers have decided not to screen a documentary that raises critical questions about key tourist attractions that their event…
There’s a huge difference between killing an animal for sustenance or subsistence, and hunting it for a trophy or for…
If you want to save elephants, don’t legalise the international trade in ivory. That’s the message of a major research…
In the past week Southern Africa’s lucrative trophy hunting industry received two devastating blows: the release of an explosive new…
In an unprecedented move, the Professional Hunters’ Association of South Africa (PHASA) has been told that its “position on lion…
We’re all obsessing over the devastating poaching crisis that’s driving elephants and rhinos towards extinction and rightly so. But in…
Durban – Blood Lions, a new documentary film delivers a damning verdict on the rapidly growing South African industry that…
Government appears intent on reforming and sanitising the business of breeding and hunting lions. Critics want to see it dismantled…
A legal trade in rhino horns lies at the heart of a proposed new government policy for the conservation of…
A group of international experts comprised of over 30 conservationists, academics, journalists, authors and lawyers from Africa, Europe, Asia and…
In an article published in the Sunday Times a week ago [May 31], Edna Molewa, the minister of environmental affairs,…
“Please, let’s stop talking about illegal trade in wildlife. It’s not illegal trade – it’s crime,” says John Sellar, an…
A group of local and international experts converged in Cape Town on Tuesday to discuss the legal and illegal trade…
The draft Biodiversity Management Plan for the Lion (Panthera Leo) in South Africa was published under the National Environmental Management…