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CITES protection of animals no longer fit for purpose, says wildlife filmmaker
One of the world’s worst wildlife scams is being permitted by the United Nations organisation formed to protect wild animals…
Author Don Pinnock
Don Pinnock
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.
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Urgent questions about the welfare of wildlife that Parliament needs to ask
As Department of Agriculture officials file into a meeting with Parliament’s Environmental Portfolio Committee on Friday (August 28) to explain…
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African forest plunder condemns chimpanzees to miserable lives in zoos
Chimpanzees are our nearest genetic relatives on the tree of life. At this rate, eaten or forced to entertain zoo…
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Wildlife experts spurn invite to serve on environmental panel, indicating bias and co-option
Three people have declined to serve on a government panel. That’s not exactly news. But, given who they are and…
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Over 400 Botswana elephants killed in mystery mass die-off
The carcasses of more than 400 elephants have been discovered north of the Okavango Delta and nobody yet knows what’s…
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‘Unfair Game’ reveals the cruel reality of canned lions
Almost without exception, every single captive-bred lion in South Africa faces a miserable fate – petted and played with as…
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Why the wildlife trade convention failed to prevent Covid-19
It’s time to rethink the role of CITES, says its former head, John Scanlon. It has no teeth to enforce…
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Enabling the dealers in death
The legal trade in wild animals between SA and China is helping the illegal trade grow, writes environmental investigator Don…
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How the Coronavirus changes poaching strategies
Wild animals are back. Kangaroos bounding through the streets of Melbourne, elephant herds passing through Indian villages, jackals in Johannesburg,…
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Is the environment minister captured by vested interests?
Everything a costly high-level panel appointed by the Department of Environmental Affairs is tasked to find out about wildlife is…
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Living with wild animals (Part Two): Eat them like there’s no tomorrow
As the world staggers under the catastrophic impact of eating a wild animal, probably a pangolin, the South African government…
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Living with wild animals, Part One: Cash cows or fellow beings?
The world is witnessing an unprecedented, human-induced collapse of biodiversity and is in the middle of a global pandemic caused…
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Scales tip in favour of pangolins as hosts of Coronavirus ‘transition’
As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads its tentacles across all continents except Antarctica, scientists in China and the US are racing…
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China’s ban on wildlife consumption is an overdue death knell for lion bone industry
The Chinese government yesterday placed an immediate ban on the illegal trading of wildlife and the consumption of wild animals.…
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Government ignored its own science task team by redefining 32 wild species as farm animals
In listing 32 wild animal species as farm animals under the Animal Improvement Act in 2019, the Department of Agriculture…
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Headless sharks, scarce great whites and the danger of fish and chips Down Under
It was a bizarre and disturbing sight. About 100 sharks – beheaded, finned and gutted – dumped on Strandfontein beach…
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Outrage over ‘unethical’ Botswana elephant hunt
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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SA reclassifies 33 wild species as farm animals. A list of iconic and in some cases endangered wild animals can now be manipulated as farming stock.
By the stroke of a legislative pen, a list of iconic and in some cases endangered wild animals can now…
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Joburg Zoo Threatens To Sue Animal Rights Group Over ”Distressed” Elephants Video
The Johannesburg Zoo finds itself embroiled in another legal controversy after three elephants were caught on video in seeming distress…
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Court victory for NSPCA over welfare of captive lions, bone exports
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ruled in favour of the NSPCA regarding the welfare of lions in captivity…