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There are growing concerns around the South African government’s wildlife high-level advisory panel, which will evaluate the captive lion breeding…
Twelve rangers and four civilians were killed late last week in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park,…
The legal global wildlife trade is worth roughly $300 billion. Of more than 31,500 listed terrestrial birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles, approximately…
‘Sustainable use’ ideology ignores the complexity of ecological systems and the impact of repeated over-extraction on the functionality of those…
If anything has become patently clear from the Covid-19 pandemic it is that we need to change the way we…
As the world staggers under the catastrophic impact of eating a wild animal, probably a pangolin, the South African government…
Botswana hides behind national “sovereignty” while selling off its natural heritage to foreign hunters and treating elephants as mere commodities.…
The world is witnessing an unprecedented, human-induced collapse of biodiversity and is in the middle of a global pandemic caused…
SPCA calls for permanent closure of Bloemfontein Zoo after discovering starving animals At least five animals – including a buffalo,…
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…