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Janine Avery is passionate about many things. Among those dabbling in digital marketing, spreading messages on social media, and taking audiences on a journey through her travel stories rank high on her list of priorities, but it’s conservation issues that really tug at her heart strings. Raised by a menagerie of artists, creatives, scientists, researchers, biologists and botanists, it’s fair to say that her blood runs green – and it’s something she is proud of.
Botswana’s proposals to lift its hunting ban and to introduce elephant culling has fuelled political posturing, denials, misinformation, and lobbying…
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, China, Thailand and the Philippines, some of the world’s worst countries for poaching and illegal trade in…
A strategic report on poaching just released by the Department of Environmental Affairs shows that fewer rhinos but more elephants are being…
South Africa has opened hunting season on leopards after two years of grace. The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has…
Dogged by allegations of bribery and unethical operators, a dodgy permitting system, and the contentious hunting of so-called ‘problem animals’…
South African hunters will take part in the slaughter of 2 000 hippos in the pristine Luangwa Valley in Zambia…
DA MP Ross Purdon tabled a parliamentary motion this week calling on government departments to revisit this national rhino poaching crisis with…
A split in the ranks as some professional hunters still side for canned lion hunting and the debate continues in…
Parliament’s Environment Committee has called for criminal charges against top North West officials following a R183m (€11,1m) donation of rare…
The South African government has formed an alliance with organisations which kill wildlife for gain to the exclusion of those…
126 captive elephants in 26 facilities. All used for human entertainment of which 14 facilities offer elephant back riding and…
With the Department of Environmental Affairs stalling the first legal rhino horn auction actually happening remains to be seen. Update…
“Our primary mandate is to protect these animals (leopards) so that we don’t open them up to a situation where…
Rhino poaching might be on the decrease, elephant poaching is on the rise, but without up to date poaching figures…
The threat posed by illegal bushmeat hunting to the Okavango Delta‘s tourism industry in Botswana has been exposed in a…
As South Africa continues to lose rhinos in the poaching war, it seems that the government is failing those fighting…
With the Sumatran rhino officially extinct in the wild, are South Africa’s rhino doomed to the same fate? With the…
Cape Town – If cats do have nine lives, leopards are on their last. Especially the big, strong males of…