
When President Mokgweetsi Masisi opened up Botswana’s rich wildlands to hunting, it helped gain him the essential rural votes he…
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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…
Poachers have poisoned hundreds of raptors in northern Botswana using three elephant carcasses as bait. The information has just been…
Elephants have become a hot political issue in Botswana, with President Mokgweetsi Masisi beating the hunting drum, a sure vote-catcher…
A gun manufacturer in the Czech Republic is implicated in flooding Africa with thousands of high-calibre hunting rifles. Now poachers…
The United Nations Special Report on Global Warming in 2018 sounded a sharp warning few could disagree with: Earth has…
Lions seen at Willie Jacobs’ farm, Ukutula Lodge, on 31 July 2015 in Brits, South Africa. Jacobs’ farm was heavily…
A male white lion, part of a rare white lion pack, in the wild in South Africa. (PHOTO: EPA/LIESL EICHENBERGER)…
As tourism is a mainstay of Botswana’s economy, lifting the hunting ban could, the poll suggests, have severe economic consequences…
Two lionesses rub against a cage fence at a captive breeding centre for large predators at an undisclosed location in…
Image supplied A report by Elephants Without Borders claiming ‘a significant poaching outbreak is ongoing in at least four distinct…
Kruger National Park has been condemned by Parliament for signing an agreement which it had been expressly forbidden to sign…
Image supplied. We need to talk about the future of zoos. There are about 1,500 formal and many more informal…
South Africa is playing a dangerous double game with rhinos and it’s time to ask why. The department doesn’t appear…
The NSPCA has made an urgent application to the Gauteng High Court which contains photographic evidence of alarming and persistent…
The authority that licensed the lion trophy hunt which became the focus of a parliamentary inquiry last week has been…
It was in Umbabat that a lion was recently hunted and ended up being discussed in Parliament, following accusations that…