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As Department of Agriculture officials file into a meeting with Parliament’s Environmental Portfolio Committee on Friday (August 28) to explain…
It’s World Elephant Day, but clearly not in Zimbabwe, where more than 140 young elephants have been ‘harvested’ by running…
Chimpanzees are our nearest genetic relatives on the tree of life. At this rate, eaten or forced to entertain zoo…
Panel overseeing hunting is loaded with industry representatives. A Parliamentary colloquium passed a resolution in August 2018 to implement legislation…
World Elephant Day: Africa is home to around 415,000 African elephants – a sobering 30% drop in the last decade…
World Lion Day (10 August) celebrates one of South Africa’s most iconic species, yet despite dwindling wild lion numbers, they…
Earlier this month, Niger and Burkino Faso presented CITES with a new report that detailed Zimbabwe’s gross violation of a…
Today (Wednesday 29 July) is International Tiger Day, an event designed to raise awareness to the dire circumstances facing the…
Three people have declined to serve on a government panel. That’s not exactly news. But, given who they are and…
The carcasses of more than 400 elephants have been discovered north of the Okavango Delta and nobody yet knows what’s…
Almost without exception, every single captive-bred lion in South Africa faces a miserable fate – petted and played with as…
Supported by wealthy and powerful organisations like Safari Club International, the Dallas Safari Club and the National Rifle Association and…
Much is being written about the trade of live wildlife for human consumption at wet markets around the world, such…
It’s time to rethink the role of CITES, says its former head, John Scanlon. It has no teeth to enforce…
Where neoliberalism subjugates the natural world and people to the commercial whims of markets and globalisation, sustainable use has ensured…
Experts say the government is ignoring science and dragging its feet in the face of a crisis. According to scientists…
The legal trade in wild animals between SA and China is helping the illegal trade grow, writes environmental investigator Don…
Chimpanzees, Bengal tigers, wolves, wild dogs and lions are among thousands of endangered wild animals exported, sometimes in contravention of…
Wild animals are back. Kangaroos bounding through the streets of Melbourne, elephant herds passing through Indian villages, jackals in Johannesburg,…
Everything a costly high-level panel appointed by the Department of Environmental Affairs is tasked to find out about wildlife is…