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Symptomatic of the Botswana government’s shaky relationship with reality is its letter to the United Kingdom’s Department of Environment, Food…
Irked by widespread local and international opposition to its decision to reopen elephant trophy hunting the Botswanan government has become…
Beyers Coetzee had a dream to see the elephants of Mawana Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal live out their days in…
The Chinese government yesterday placed an immediate ban on the illegal trading of wildlife and the consumption of wild animals.…
The Botswana government has again demonstrated to the world that it either does not understand or does not care that…
The Botswana government has auctioned off the last of its big tuskers to hunters despite offers from conservationists to buy…
Cape Town — Unethical hunting has exposed a community to dangerous, aggressive elephants rather than solving Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) Following…
In listing 32 wild animal species as farm animals under the Animal Improvement Act in 2019, the Department of Agriculture…
The evidence suggests that ethical, economic and ecological problems with trophy hunting warrant a trophy import ban. Trophy hunting is…
It was a bizarre and disturbing sight. About 100 sharks – beheaded, finned and gutted – dumped on Strandfontein beach…
Through what appear to be wilfully ignorant policies, South Africa is facilitating the illegal trade in lion bones, not only…
When President Mokgweetsi Masisi opened up Botswana’s rich wildlands to hunting, it helped gain him the essential rural votes he…
For a Western hunter to pay to kill an African animal and expatriate its parts is a form of objectification,…
In the matter of guarding the chicken run, there’s a big difference between giving the job to a chicken or…
Interactions with all infant wildlife, walking with predators or elephants, interacting with predators and the riding of wild animals are…
Tony Weaver has defended Botswana President, Mokgweetsi Masisi, who decided to reintroduce trophy hunting to that country ahead of the…
The trophy hunting lobby and its ideological hangers-on will do whatever they can to defend the right of members to…
Tony Weaver has defended Botswana’s decision to reintroduce trophy hunting. Personally, he doesn’t ‘quite understand what motivates hunters’, but intellectually,…
By the stroke of a legislative pen, a list of iconic and in some cases endangered wild animals can now…
The Southern Africa Tourism Services Association (SATSA) has welcomed the move from global tourism heavyweights Airbnb and TripAdvisor to shun…