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Botswana trophy hunting poached 385 elephants
At least 385 elephants were poached in the last year, however the Botswana government has just set an annual quota of…
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SA plans for 2019 lion bone export quota a ‘big middle finger to conservation’
The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries’ determination to set yet another export quota for lion bones flies in the…
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Call for Disney to donate Lion King profits to conservation
A second Lion King movie is due for release this month and wildlife conservationists are urging Disney to share its…
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Octopus fishing in False Bay is putting whales at risk and costing taxpayers
Another dead 12-metre Bryde’s whale was found in False Bay near Cape Town last week after becoming entangled in octopus…
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Despite calls to #FreeLammie, Joburg Zoo takes two more elephants
Two free-roaming elephants from the Eastern Cape have been relocated to a small barren enclosure in Joburg Zoo. The move…
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Zambian pseudo hippo cull cancelled
A controversial contract to hunt at least 1250 hippos under the pretext of culling in Zambia’s world-renowned Luangwa Valley has…
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Botswana shoots itself in the foot
After Barack Obama came Donald Trump, a bigoted populist prone to crass outpourings and some peculiar legislative ideas. His time…
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The elephants in the room – the myths informing Botswana’s hunting policy
Botswana has lifted its ban on hunting based on five myths about that country’s elephant population. The decision has as…
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Botswana brings back trophy hunting
Botswana has now committed to a policy built on myths, while the rest of the world takes stock of the…
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Botswana’s elephants: myths vs facts
Botswana president, Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi, recently hosted a summit in Kasane for five southern African heads of state to forge…
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Kruger poachers get power rifles.
A gun manufacturer in the Czech Republic is implicated in flooding Africa with thousands of high-calibre hunting rifles. Now poachers…
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Botswana lifts ban on elephant hunting
Lifting of ban attributed to ‘political play’. The Botswanan government announced yesterday that it was “lifting the hunting suspension in…
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Elephants reduced to a political football as Botswana brings back hunting
Splashing in the Zambezi River at Botswana’s Chobe National Park. Shutterstock Ross Harvey, University of Cape Town Botswana has reinstated…
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More confusion over the fate of Botswana’s elephants
Elephant poaching, Mozambique President Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana categorically denies that his government would ever cull elephants, contradicting the Parliamentary…
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Shock report about life on Earth: We’re in deep trouble
The United Nations Special Report on Global Warming in 2018 sounded a sharp warning few could disagree with: Earth has…
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Animal cruelty charges laid against lion farmer
Photo credit: Conservation Action Trust The NSPCA has laid criminal charges against Jan Steinman, a lion farmer in North West,…
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Trophy Hunting, Part Two: End of the game
Lions seen at Willie Jacobs’ farm, Ukutula Lodge, on 31 July 2015 in Brits, South Africa. Jacobs’ farm was heavily…
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Trophy Hunting, Part One: The nasty colonial sport of shooting wild animals
A male white lion, part of a rare white lion pack, in the wild in South Africa. (PHOTO: EPA/LIESL EICHENBERGER)…
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Joburg Zoo To Get Second Elephant In Spite Of Public Outcry
Photo: Francis Garrard The Joburg Zoo continues to make unilateral decisions regarding Lammie the elephant’s future while the DA led…
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Tall order to save the giraffe
WILL giraffes survive humanity? They are as iconic as lions, rhinos and elephants and their long-term existence in the wild…