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These articles were produced with the support of Conservation Action Trust and may be republished free of charge in the interest of wildlife conservation, requiring only that the author and Conservation Action Trust are credited.
The welfare of wild animals in South Africa is being thrown under a bus by dithering departments and inappropriate legislators.…
Last month, with little publicity, the Department of Environmental Affairs gave the public 30 days to object to or comment…
Namibia and Zimbabwe are likely to exploit the loopholes created by the UN wildlife trade organisation’s conflicting advisories on the…
The title of the book I compiled with Colin Bell, ‘The Last Elephants’, was less predictive than a warning —…
A new policy paper signals a more humane approach to the treatment of wild animals and an end to cruelty…
Environment Minister Barbara Creecy’s report on the use and protection of SA’s iconic wildlife was groundbreaking. But is there the…
The Department of Agriculture is about to introduce a new Animal Welfare Act, but all non-agricultural stakeholders have been excluded…
Two government approaches to our relationship with wild animals, two opposing views. One could chart the path to South Africa’s…
In a seismic shift that will send shock waves through many areas of SA’s wildlife industry, the Cabinet has endorsed…
The values of Zimbabwe’s and Namibia’s ivory stockpiles have been grossly overstated, and their proposed sale would lead to another…
The Auditor-General’s annual review of the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries’ finances has uncovered irregular, wasteful and unaccounted for…
Wildlife and weaponised disinformation: the path of least disclosure There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are…
Conservationists have demonstrated that legalised trade and commercial breeding of wild animals stimulates demand, encourages poachers and smugglers and ultimately…
Specialists from around the world have petitioned Environment Minister Barbara Creecy to release into a sanctuary a Pretoria Zoo elephant…
The Namibian government will put 170 wild elephants up for sale on 29 January, justified by false population statistics and…
For a distance of some 150km, Canadian company ReconAfrica’s oil and gas prospecting concessions border the Kavango River, a crucial…
Two women thought they were helping by hand-rearing cubs, until they learnt some sinister truths. Now their Panthera Africa is…
Ever since the film ‘Jaws’, with its creepy music, sharks have had bad press as nightmarish super-predators. But sharks are…
The light sentence handed out to the vet who mutilated a monkey is a travesty of justice says the National…
In November 2010, two men in Lenasia attempted to kill two camels as part of an Islamic ritual. They were…