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As Department of Agriculture officials file into a meeting with Parliament’s Environmental Portfolio Committee on Friday (August 28) to explain…
Chimpanzees are our nearest genetic relatives on the tree of life. At this rate, eaten or forced to entertain zoo…
Three people have declined to serve on a government panel. That’s not exactly news. But, given who they are and…
The carcasses of more than 400 elephants have been discovered north of the Okavango Delta and nobody yet knows what’s…
Almost without exception, every single captive-bred lion in South Africa faces a miserable fate – petted and played with as…
It’s time to rethink the role of CITES, says its former head, John Scanlon. It has no teeth to enforce…
The legal trade in wild animals between SA and China is helping the illegal trade grow, writes environmental investigator Don…
Wild animals are back. Kangaroos bounding through the streets of Melbourne, elephant herds passing through Indian villages, jackals in Johannesburg,…
Everything a costly high-level panel appointed by the Department of Environmental Affairs is tasked to find out about wildlife is…
As the world staggers under the catastrophic impact of eating a wild animal, probably a pangolin, the South African government…
The world is witnessing an unprecedented, human-induced collapse of biodiversity and is in the middle of a global pandemic caused…
As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads its tentacles across all continents except Antarctica, scientists in China and the US are racing…
The Chinese government yesterday placed an immediate ban on the illegal trading of wildlife and the consumption of wild animals.…
In listing 32 wild animal species as farm animals under the Animal Improvement Act in 2019, the Department of Agriculture…
It was a bizarre and disturbing sight. About 100 sharks – beheaded, finned and gutted – dumped on Strandfontein beach…
When President Mokgweetsi Masisi opened up Botswana’s rich wildlands to hunting, it helped gain him the essential rural votes he…
By the stroke of a legislative pen, a list of iconic and in some cases endangered wild animals can now…
The Johannesburg Zoo finds itself embroiled in another legal controversy after three elephants were caught on video in seeming distress…
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ruled in favour of the NSPCA regarding the welfare of lions in captivity…
The trophy hunting industry is on the wrong side of history, serves the macabre leisure pursuits of a handful of…