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World Lion Day: No reason to celebrate in South Africa
World Lion Day (10 August) celebrates one of South Africa’s most iconic species, yet despite dwindling wild lion numbers, they…
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Zimbabwe slated for live elephant export in contravention of treaty
Earlier this month, Niger and Burkino Faso presented CITES with a new report that detailed Zimbabwe’s gross violation of a…
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International Tiger Day: Still no protection for these majestic cats under SA law
Today (Wednesday 29 July) is International Tiger Day, an event designed to raise awareness to the dire circumstances facing the…
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Wildlife experts spurn invite to serve on environmental panel, indicating bias and co-option
Three people have declined to serve on a government panel. That’s not exactly news. But, given who they are and…
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Over 400 Botswana elephants killed in mystery mass die-off
The carcasses of more than 400 elephants have been discovered north of the Okavango Delta and nobody yet knows what’s…
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‘Unfair Game’ reveals the cruel reality of canned lions
Almost without exception, every single captive-bred lion in South Africa faces a miserable fate – petted and played with as…
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Are trophy hunters serial killers? Book review.
Supported by wealthy and powerful organisations like Safari Club International, the Dallas Safari Club and the National Rifle Association and…
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The Breaking Point: Could this report spell the end of SA’s wildlife trade?
Much is being written about the trade of live wildlife for human consumption at wet markets around the world, such…
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Why the wildlife trade convention failed to prevent Covid-19
It’s time to rethink the role of CITES, says its former head, John Scanlon. It has no teeth to enforce…
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Neoliberalism and sustainable use are cut from the same paradigm
Where neoliberalism subjugates the natural world and people to the commercial whims of markets and globalisation, sustainable use has ensured…
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How overfishing is threatening SA’s shark eco-tourism industry
Experts say the government is ignoring science and dragging its feet in the face of a crisis. According to scientists…
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Enabling the dealers in death
The legal trade in wild animals between SA and China is helping the illegal trade grow, writes environmental investigator Don…
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Horrific scale of SA’s live wild animal trade to China exposed
Chimpanzees, Bengal tigers, wolves, wild dogs and lions are among thousands of endangered wild animals exported, sometimes in contravention of…
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How the Coronavirus changes poaching strategies
Wild animals are back. Kangaroos bounding through the streets of Melbourne, elephant herds passing through Indian villages, jackals in Johannesburg,…
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Is the environment minister captured by vested interests?
Everything a costly high-level panel appointed by the Department of Environmental Affairs is tasked to find out about wildlife is…
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Why SA’s courts place ecological sustainability ahead of government’s reductionist sustainable use – Part 2
There are growing concerns around the South African government’s wildlife high-level advisory panel, which will evaluate the captive lion breeding…
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12 rangers from Virunga park killed while trying to save civilians from FDLR ambush
Twelve rangers and four civilians were killed late last week in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park,…
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What is the wildlife trade? And what are the answers to managing it?
The legal global wildlife trade is worth roughly $300 billion. Of more than 31,500 listed terrestrial birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles, approximately…
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Wildlife trade: The unsustainability of ‘sustainable use’ (Part 1)
‘Sustainable use’ ideology ignores the complexity of ecological systems and the impact of repeated over-extraction on the functionality of those…
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In urgent need of an environmental ethic
If anything has become patently clear from the Covid-19 pandemic it is that we need to change the way we…