
There are growing concerns around the South African government’s wildlife high-level advisory panel, which will evaluate the captive lion breeding…
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There are growing concerns around the South African government’s wildlife high-level advisory panel, which will evaluate the captive lion breeding…
The legal global wildlife trade is worth roughly $300 billion. Of more than 31,500 listed terrestrial birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles, approximately…
‘Sustainable use’ ideology ignores the complexity of ecological systems and the impact of repeated over-extraction on the functionality of those…
Botswana hides behind national “sovereignty” while selling off its natural heritage to foreign hunters and treating elephants as mere commodities.…
Symptomatic of the Botswana government’s shaky relationship with reality is its letter to the United Kingdom’s Department of Environment, Food…
The Botswana government has again demonstrated to the world that it either does not understand or does not care that…
The Botswana government has auctioned off the last of its big tuskers to hunters despite offers from conservationists to buy…
The evidence suggests that ethical, economic and ecological problems with trophy hunting warrant a trophy import ban. Trophy hunting is…
For a Western hunter to pay to kill an African animal and expatriate its parts is a form of objectification,…
Tony Weaver has defended Botswana President, Mokgweetsi Masisi, who decided to reintroduce trophy hunting to that country ahead of the…
Tony Weaver has defended Botswana’s decision to reintroduce trophy hunting. Personally, he doesn’t ‘quite understand what motivates hunters’, but intellectually,…
The continual poaching of rhinos in southern Africa for their horns, in particular in Botswana, has raised the argument yet…
A Chinese ground crew has just arrived to prepare 33 baby elephants for imminent shipment to China, according to sources…
The arguments for trophy hunting contained within a recent letter published in the journal Science simply don’t stack up. A…
Cape Town — The overwhelming message from a global conference on elephants in captivity, hosted in Hermanus on September 6, was…
Debunking myths about the impact of elephants on large trees African elephant in Kruger national park, South Africa. PACO COMO/Shutterstock…
Welfare problems have always characterised the captive lion industry, but have proliferated over the past few years due to a…
A new report by global NGO, World Animal Protection, provides a damning indictment on the captive predator breeding industry. Big cats are…
Botswana has a growing population of humans and cattle, not elephants. Outside protected areas, desertification caused by cattle over-grazing too…
The Botswana government recently reintroduced trophy hunting after a five-year moratorium. It did so on the pretext that Botswana has “too many elephants”. But…