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OP-ED: Lion bones and predator farming – picking on the carcass of SA tourism
Predator breeding using lions and other species could cost South Africa over R54-billion over the next 10 years in loss…
Author Ian Michler
Ian Michler
Ian has spent the last 24 years working as a specialist guide, safari operator, photo-journalist and consultant across Africa, including a stint of 13 years based in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. His writing covers topics on conservation, wildlife management, ecotourism, and the environment in general, and he has been a regular contributor, columnist and blogger for Africa Geographic over the past two decades. Ian is a member of the International League of Conservation Writers and is the author and photographer of seven natural history and travel books on Africa. Prior to his life in the wilderness, he spent eight years practicing as a stockbroker in Cape Town and Johannesburg. He currently lives along the Garden Route where he runs Invent Africa, an inbound safari company that takes guests to 15 countries across Africa.
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Like the fossil fuel industry, trophy hunting is unsustainable
Trophy hunting is like the fossil fuel industry. They’re both messy, unsustainable, in need of an alternative approach and, ultimately,…
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Who carries the can?
Commerical exploitation is holding lions, conservation and brand South Africa captive, writes Ian Michler. Read his article here: Who carries the…
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Is the SA government preparing for a legal trade proposal in 2019?
At the CITES CoP17 held in South Africa during September/October 2016, it was clear that the vast majority of member…
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The Captive Lion Industry: A Sustainability Scam?
The notion of ‘sustainability’ has become the most overused and consequently meaningless phrase within conservation and wildlife circles. Used…
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Leonardo’s sailors: Seeking new solutions to SA’s rhino poaching crisis
It was Leonardo da Vinci, the great Renaissance-era mathematician, architect and artist, who said: “He who loves practice without theory…
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SA government absent from important rhino conference
There is no denying the debate around trade in rhino horn and elephant ivory has polarised the conservation community in…
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Rhino economics discredited
The recently held London Conference on the illegal wildlife trade has made headlines for a number of reasons, not least…
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Truth can be stranger than fiction: the horn and ivory trade paradigm
It was Mark Twain who observed that “truth is stranger than fiction”, although some will suggest his shrewd comment on…
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Horn of Contention: Pro-trade thinking comes in for severe criticism
Those that oppose the legalization of trade in rhino horn as the panacea for the continent’s rhino poaching crisis have…
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Missing the point on elephants (letter)
In the piece recently published in The Ngami Times titled ‘A missed opportunity on elephants’ it’s patently clear that the…
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Demand reduction can work
Recent positive feedback regarding the onslaught on sharks is also extremely encouraging news for advocates of non-trade solutions to the…
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Possibility of trade fuels rhino poaching
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has just released some revealing analysis that would seem to support those fighting against the…
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Pirates and poaching in East Africa
A recent report on Transnational Organized Crime in East Africa confirms the shocking statistics pertaining to the elephant poaching crisis in…
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A-Grade Ecotourism
Simply put, habitat destruction occurs when functioning natural habitats or ecosystems are degraded to the extent that they can no…
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We could live in a world that has only the Big Three
The African elephant is facing its gravest crisis since the 1980s when between 600 000 and 800 000 animals were killed in a poaching spree. Surveys and data…
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Dispelling Misconceptions
The trophy hunting industry’s dismissal of its opponents as ‘animal rightists’ is just one of several misconceptions that do it…
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Sable Shenanigans
In Zambia’s newest national park, on the outskirts of its capital Lusaka, live more than 200 sable antelope. Coralled in…