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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.
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…
Plans by the Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) to capture and sell off 170 of the last…
The majority of South Africa’s snakes that are exported are wild-sourced and, along with most indigenous lizards, are not CITES-listed,…
Despite overwhelming worldwide opposition, including a parliamentary resolution to close down the captive lion breeding industry, SA’s government is ignoring…
A vet has been found guilty of extreme cruelty to a vervet monkey and awaits sentencing in the Nigel Magistrate’s…
Will the government and its high-level panel finally accept the overwhelming evidence that captive lion breeding should be stopped? A…
While government, wildlife farmers and NGOs remain locked in discussion about the future of lions, elephants, rhinos and leopards, the…
Wild lions can kill you, but farmed lions pose a far greater threat in terms of more than 80 zoonotic…
One of the world’s worst wildlife scams is being permitted by the United Nations organisation formed to protect wild animals…
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…