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Captive-breeding lion industry is killing Brand South Africa
Canned lion hunting and trading in lion skeletons is having ever-widening negative ramifications for Brand South Africa. More than 40…
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Skye is the Limit – The Kruger Lion Hunt Saga Continues
Outrage, secrecy, abomination, controversy, suspicion, and cat and mouse game, are some of the verbalisations around the events linked to…
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SA licenses leopard hunting
South Africa has opened hunting season on leopards after two years of grace. The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has…
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OP-ED: Lion bones and predator farming – picking on the carcass of SA tourism
Predator breeding using lions and other species could cost South Africa over R54-billion over the next 10 years in loss…
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Kruger threatens to re-erect game fences over private reserves’ poor governance
A number of the private reserves in the Greater Kruger National Park appear to be violating the protocols and regulations…
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SA’s macabre captive lion breeding industry to be investigated by Parliament
South Africa’s unregulated captive lion breeding industry will shortly be reviewed by the Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs in a…
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Elephant poaching on the increase in Botswana
Last week, the carcass of a 40-year old elephant bull was found in Ngamiland, northern Botswana, partly covered with still…
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Cheetah cub petting offered under the guise of conservation
At least 600 cheetahs are kept in captivity in South African tourism facilities, offering interactions and cub petting in the…
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Bribery in Namibia: Government forced community into silence
Dogged by allegations of bribery and unethical operators, a dodgy permitting system, and the contentious hunting of so-called ‘problem animals’…
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Time to end lion bone trade
A DAMNING report on South Africa’s lion bone trade has called for the end of the trade, a forensic investigation…
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Dodgy skeleton traders and lion slaughterhouses exposed in damning report
The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has increased South Africa’s lion bone export quota from 800 to 1,500 a year,…
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Suspicious tender at heart of Zambian hippo culling scandal
The proposed hippo culling spree in Zambia’s world-renowned Luangwa Valley has a dodgy tender process at its core and appears to…
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Digging for the truth about Skye
The hunting of a lion in Umbabat Reserve alongside the Kruger National Park has been cloaked in secrecy ever since…
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Umbabat’s beloved lion to become trophy hunters’ targets
An extraordinary cat and mouse game is being played out in Mpumalanga over the baiting and shooting of what could…
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Outrage after Kruger lion baited and shot by trophy hunter in neighbouring reserve
An American is believed to have paid R1-million to bring down a Kruger Park lion from a pride beloved…
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SA hunters to shoot 2000 Zambian hippos
South African hunters will take part in the slaughter of 2 000 hippos in the pristine Luangwa Valley in Zambia…
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Lions in limbo at Free State abattoir while DEA and DAFF point fingers
Captive-bred lions at a recently exposed ‘lion-abattoir’ in the Free State are waiting for their fate to be decided as…
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Urgent call to save parks in the North West
EMBATTLED North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo has set his sights on the wildlife reserves within the province, proposing a bill…
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East London Zoo plans to cage endangered Wild Dogs for ‘conservation’
The troubled East London Zoo’s plans to buy Wild Dogs as soon as a moratorium on purchasing animals at the…
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Endangered Species Day – What you need to know to help save SA’s natural heritage
HAVE WE FORGOTTEN THAT WILDERNESS IS NOT A PLACE BUT A SEASON AND THAT WE ARE IN ITS FINAL HOUR? – IAN MCCALLUM, WILDERNESS …