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Don Pinnock is an associate of Southern Write, a group of top travel and natural history writers and photographers in Africa. He’ s a former editor of Getaway magazine in Cape Town, South Africa He has been an electronic engineer, lecturer in journalism and criminology, consultant to the Mandela government, a professional yachtsman, explorer, travel writer, photographer and a cable-car operator on the Rock of Gibraltar. His present passion is the impact of humans on planetary processes.
While hunters celebrate and conservationists mourn the killing of two of Botswana’s largest-tusked elephants, a biodiversity tragedy is waiting in…
A myth-busting exercise on hunting questions the claim that bagging wildlife trophies is sustainable. When you strip trophy hunting to…
Parliamentarians slam Departments of Agriculture and Environment for lack of answers on animal welfare. The future welfare of wild animals…
When vast areas of northern Botswana are denuded of trees, elephants almost always get the blame. We need to start…
The Kruger National Park has a major rhino-poaching crisis, but that’s just one of many mounting problems — and it’s…
Dr Bool Smuts of the Landmark Foundation is known in the environmental field for his willingness to fight for ethical…
Last month, with little publicity, the Department of Environmental Affairs gave the public 30 days to object to or comment…
The title of the book I compiled with Colin Bell, ‘The Last Elephants’, was less predictive than a warning —…
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna, based in Geneva, was set up to…
A new policy paper signals a more humane approach to the treatment of wild animals and an end to cruelty…
Two government approaches to our relationship with wild animals, two opposing views. One could chart the path to South Africa’s…
In a seismic shift that will send shock waves through many areas of SA’s wildlife industry, the Cabinet has endorsed…
The Auditor-General’s annual review of the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries’ finances has uncovered irregular, wasteful and unaccounted for…
Wildlife and weaponised disinformation: the path of least disclosure There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are…
Specialists from around the world have petitioned Environment Minister Barbara Creecy to release into a sanctuary a Pretoria Zoo elephant…
The Namibian government will put 170 wild elephants up for sale on 29 January, justified by false population statistics and…
Ever since the film ‘Jaws’, with its creepy music, sharks have had bad press as nightmarish super-predators. But sharks are…
The light sentence handed out to the vet who mutilated a monkey is a travesty of justice says the National…
A vet has been found guilty of extreme cruelty to a vervet monkey and awaits sentencing in the Nigel Magistrate’s…
While government, wildlife farmers and NGOs remain locked in discussion about the future of lions, elephants, rhinos and leopards, the…