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Female elephant killed at Mabalingwe in botched hunt for bull elephant
A hunter recently shot and killed a female elephant whilst trying hunt a bull elephant at Mabalingwe Nature Reserve near…
Author Sharon Gilbert-Rivett
Sharon Gilbert-Rivett
Sharon is an award-winning conservation writer and wildlife documentary maker. Sharon was born in the UK and has been involved in mainstream journalism and media for 30 years, starting out as writer/production editor in music magazines in the 1980s and progressing to daily newspapers in the 1990s. She is a freelance travel writer and has her own media consultancy.
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Mozambique and South Africa drag their feet over rhinos
In April last year South Africa signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mozambique covering the thorny issue of rhino poaching. At the…
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Documenting the demise of Africa’s elephants
More than 53,000 elephants have been massacred in the last decade in Tanzania’s Selous game reserve. In Chad’s Zakouma National…
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Wandering elephants headed home
Conservation officials have been working feverishly with farmers and concerned members of the public to ensure the safety of two…
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Setback in battle to save wandering elephant bulls
Efforts to relocate two elephants which crossed the border from Botswana into Limpopo province have received a blow with the…
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Conservationists move to save wandering bull elephants
Limpopo Nature Conservation officer Gerhard De Beer is working feverishly with concerned conservationists to save two bull elephants from Botswana…
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Suffering for sale: how tourism tramples ethics
Earlier this year horrific photographs and graphic video footage showing baby elephants being abused at an elephant sanctuary in the…
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Trophy hunting threatens Mapungubwe elephants
While Africa is losing an elephant every 15 minutes to ivory poachers, trophy hunters are targeting the cross-border population of…
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Minister’s panel of experts all favour the selling of rhino horn
The Department of Environmental Affairs is clearly scratching around for the ‘good story’ in relation to rhinos. In its latest…
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Tourism – the missing link in the rhino poaching debate
Tourism’s role in combatting the scourge of rhino and elephant poaching was touched on briefly at last week’s international conference…
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Lessons The Rhino Trade Lobby Cannot Ignore
Ignoring the hard lessons learned by the global conservation community in its battle against ivory poaching will effectively sign a…
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Was Axing of Zambian Minister Linked to Mine in National Park?
Has a highly suspicious plan to develop an open-cast copper mine in the heart of Zambia’s Lower Zambezi National Park…
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Rhino poaching: Will government action match Howard Buffett’s R255-million?
The enormous donation by US entrepreneur, philanthropist, conservationist and all-round global good-guy Howard G Buffett to help in the battle…
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SA’s rhinos: Not worth the price of a ticket to London?
The State of the Nation address provided a perfect smokescreen to hide South Africa’s real reasons for not attending last…
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Follow the ivory to get to the root cause of the poaching scourge in Africa
In his rebuttal of my previous story on ivory poaching and some of the hotly debated statistics currently in use…
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Tourism – poaching’s silent witness
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…
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Elephants – The Numbers Game
Do we have to know how many elephants there are in Africa to combat the scourge of ivory poaching? It’s…
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Response to “Botswana’s hunting ban fallout” commentary by Hans Vermaak
Hans Vermaak’s lamentation of the demise of trophy hunting in Botswana (Farmer’s Weekly 22 November 2013) and profound concern for…
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‘Ivory poaching will hit us like avalanche’
South African National Parks (SANParks) has been warned that the scourge of ivory poaching currently affecting the rest of Africa…
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A lone voice in a wilderness of greed?
PRETORIA: South Africa is pushing hard for the legalisation of trade in rhino horn. And understandably so. With more than…