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Zoos need a radical rethink — a plea for Joburg’s Lammie the elephant
Image supplied. We need to talk about the future of zoos. There are about 1,500 formal and many more informal…
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NSPCA quits Joburg Zoo ethics committee in protest over Lammie the elephant
The furore over the zoo’s solitary elephant has increased as the NSPCA (National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to…
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CITES – The trade system that doesn’t know that it doesn’t know
A picture made available Wedensday 22 September 2004 shows young black rhinoceros staring at the camera in this undated file…
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Pangolins in Peril
Slowly, the tiny ball in the wooden crate began to unwind. Its scales moved and a pointy nose followed by…
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East London Zoo animals remain confined in small barren enclosures
East London Zoo – Photo: SABC News This is a story about a lonely bear in a pit, a jaguar…
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Young Balule Elephant shot 13 times before horrified visitors
Just as the furore about the trophy hunting of the pride male named Skye began abating, another incident has highlighted…
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Confusion over Botswana’s elephant population
Botswana’s parliament recently passed a motion considering lifting the ban on elephant trophy hunting, citing an increase in both the…
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Parliament moves to put the brakes on ‘unethical’ captive lion breeding and bone trade
Are we about to see the end of one of South Africa’s most infamous practices – captive lion breeding for…
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Johannesburg Zoo ignores calls to free Lammie the Lonely Elephant
This is despite animal welfare specialists’ renewed calls on The Johannesburg City Council to relocate the grieving elephant from the…
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Selling rhino horn: It’s time to ask hard questions about the Department of Environmental Affairs
South Africa is playing a dangerous double game with rhinos and it’s time to ask why. The department doesn’t appear…
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Reserve shoots roaming elephant, despite admitting its fences are not secure
Dinokeng Game Reserve’s dominant elephant bull was recently shot as a ‘problem animal’ for breaking fences and escaping from the…
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DAFF ignores science, wastes public funds in appealing High Court Rock Lobster ruling
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries (DAFF) plans to appeal the recent Western Cape High Court ruling against fishing…
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CITES lets world’s worst elephant poaching countries off the hook
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, China, Thailand and the Philippines, some of the world’s worst countries for poaching and illegal trade in…
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NSPCA heads for court to halt trade in lion skeletons
The NSPCA has made an urgent application to the Gauteng High Court which contains photographic evidence of alarming and persistent…
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Has rhino poaching decreased, or are we running out of rhinos?
A strategic report on poaching just released by the Department of Environmental Affairs shows that fewer rhinos but more elephants are being…
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Do test tube lions help conserve wild lions?
Lion experts dispute conservation value of test tube lions questioning whether this merely supports lion breeders’ claims that they contribute…
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Botswana’s elephant poaching crisis under scrutiny
Reports of elephant poaching in Botswana are under the spotlight with various claims in national and international media that the…
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Controversy over Skye the lion
THE controversy deepens around the death of a magnificent male lion in Umbabat Private Nature Reserve (PNR) as Parliament was…
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Permitting authority shows Parliament photo of dead lion it claims is not famous pride male – but experts say it is
The authority that licensed the lion trophy hunt which became the focus of a parliamentary inquiry last week has been…
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Free captive-born Lammie the Elephant now: Experts’ plea to Joburg Zoo
While Lammie the elephant languishes alone since the recent death of her partner, Kinkel, elephant experts are calling for her…