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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…
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Living with wild animals (Part Two): Eat them like there’s no tomorrow
As the world staggers under the catastrophic impact of eating a wild animal, probably a pangolin, the South African government…
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Elephant Hunts for Sale During a Pandemic
Botswana hides behind national “sovereignty” while selling off its natural heritage to foreign hunters and treating elephants as mere commodities.…
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Living with wild animals, Part One: Cash cows or fellow beings?
The world is witnessing an unprecedented, human-induced collapse of biodiversity and is in the middle of a global pandemic caused…
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Animals starved to death in Bloemfontein Zoo
SPCA calls for permanent closure of Bloemfontein Zoo after discovering starving animals At least five animals – including a buffalo,…
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Botswana government won’t let the truth get in the way of its trophy hunting narrative
Symptomatic of the Botswana government’s shaky relationship with reality is its letter to the United Kingdom’s Department of Environment, Food…
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There are less harmful ways of ensuring people and elephants can live together
Irked by widespread local and international opposition to its decision to reopen elephant trophy hunting the Botswanan government has become…
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Conservationist killed by elephants in KwaZulu-Natal, but family pleads with authorities to spare herd
Beyers Coetzee had a dream to see the elephants of Mawana Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal live out their days in…
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China’s ban on wildlife consumption is an overdue death knell for lion bone industry
The Chinese government yesterday placed an immediate ban on the illegal trading of wildlife and the consumption of wild animals.…
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Botswana auctions off the last of its big tusker elephants
The Botswana government has again demonstrated to the world that it either does not understand or does not care that…