
A hunter recently shot and killed a female elephant whilst trying hunt a bull elephant at Mabalingwe Nature Reserve near…
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A hunter recently shot and killed a female elephant whilst trying hunt a bull elephant at Mabalingwe Nature Reserve near…
In April last year South Africa signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mozambique covering the thorny issue of rhino poaching. At the…
More than 53,000 elephants have been massacred in the last decade in Tanzania’s Selous game reserve. In Chad’s Zakouma National…
Conservation officials have been working feverishly with farmers and concerned members of the public to ensure the safety of two…
Efforts to relocate two elephants which crossed the border from Botswana into Limpopo province have received a blow with the…
Limpopo Nature Conservation officer Gerhard De Beer is working feverishly with concerned conservationists to save two bull elephants from Botswana…
Earlier this year horrific photographs and graphic video footage showing baby elephants being abused at an elephant sanctuary in the…
While Africa is losing an elephant every 15 minutes to ivory poachers, trophy hunters are targeting the cross-border population of…
The Department of Environmental Affairs is clearly scratching around for the ‘good story’ in relation to rhinos. In its latest…
Tourism’s role in combatting the scourge of rhino and elephant poaching was touched on briefly at last week’s international conference…
Ignoring the hard lessons learned by the global conservation community in its battle against ivory poaching will effectively sign a…
Has a highly suspicious plan to develop an open-cast copper mine in the heart of Zambia’s Lower Zambezi National Park…
The enormous donation by US entrepreneur, philanthropist, conservationist and all-round global good-guy Howard G Buffett to help in the battle…
The State of the Nation address provided a perfect smokescreen to hide South Africa’s real reasons for not attending last…
In his rebuttal of my previous story on ivory poaching and some of the hotly debated statistics currently in use…
In 2011 tourism contributed R83,4-billion to South Africa’s GDP and last year more than 9-million tourists splashed out R76,4-billion across…
Do we have to know how many elephants there are in Africa to combat the scourge of ivory poaching? It’s…
Hans Vermaak’s lamentation of the demise of trophy hunting in Botswana (Farmer’s Weekly 22 November 2013) and profound concern for…
South African National Parks (SANParks) has been warned that the scourge of ivory poaching currently affecting the rest of Africa…
PRETORIA: South Africa is pushing hard for the legalisation of trade in rhino horn. And understandably so. With more than…