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LION FARMING – A HIDEOUS COMPLEXITY
Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has announced: “The Panel identified that the captive lion industry poses risks to the sustainability of wild…
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The planet’s favorite wild creature speed bred and factory farmed for body parts
Tiger Mafia Synopsis The initial 200 hours of footage shot for this documentary came together over a ten year period and a dozen…
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Namibia: Concern for elephants in Okavango Basin grows
Interested and affected parties in the oil exploration activities in the Okavango Basin are deeply concerned about the impacts of…
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We love animals — so why do we treat them so badly?
Before the pandemic, it was one of the best time ever to be a human. We lived longer, fought much…
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Captive lions kept in ‘stressful conditions’ create perfect recipe for disease, experts say
Researchers have identified that captive and wild lions carry 63 pathogens that could result in about 83 diseases and clinical…
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Botswana Government to shoot 287 elephants by the end of September
The elephant hunting season opened on April 6th, 2021 in Botswana. The Botswana authorities have issued permits to kill 287…
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Growing Demand for Vulture Heads Threatens the Birds’ Survival in Africa
Across the continent, traditional healers are increasingly using the body parts of vultures, creating an illegal market that has experts…
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Huge sums of unaccounted for cash in Zimbabwe’s cruel elephant sales
The controversial sale of elephants from Zimbabwe to other countries, mostly China, is again in the spotlight. The renewed scrutiny comes due…
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African elephants only occupy a fraction of their potential range
Many wildlife species are threatened by shrinking habitat. But according to new research, the potential range of African elephants could…
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Seaspiracy shows why we must treat fish not as seafood, but as wildlife
The film gets some things wrong, but it exposes the grim ecological destruction of the Earth’s oceans When the BBC…
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Why the Kruger Park is demolishing artificial water sources
Years of artificial water sources in the park have led to a number of ecological problems and landscape degradation. Strategically…
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40 SANParks employees sacked over rhino poaching
Cape Town – FORTY SANParks employees found guilty of being involved in rhino poaching have been dismissed, Forestry, Fisheries and…
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ZIM DUPED OF US$13MIL IN ELEPHANT EXPORT DEALS TO CHINA, DUBAI
The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority may have misled the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and…
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Why the global wildlife trading system is an absolute sham
The essential and gorgeously diverse array of life on Earth is disappearing fast. That’s a tragedy of Shakespearian proportions*, as a future planet…
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The Covid-19 question: How do we prevent future pandemics?
The EndPandemics alliance brings together various groups working to prevent future zoonotic disease outbreaks by ending the wildlife trade and…
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‘The Sick Five’: Captive lion breeding industry poses public health risk
The captive lion industry is putting the health of tourists, industry workers and communities at risk because of the so-called…
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Two legal challenges expose grave flaws at the heart of global wildlife trading system
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is one of the most important…
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The ‘Enterprise,’ the Burundi Stockpile, and other Ivory Behind the Extradition.
In the morning hours of Monday, January 25th alleged ivory/rhino horn, and drug trafficker, Mansur Mohamed Surur, was led from…
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Test drilling for oil and gas begins in Namibia’s Okavango region
This month, ReconAfrica’s multimillion-dollar drilling rig pierced a riverbed in elephant habitat some 160 miles from the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta.…
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Two thirds of rhinos in South Africa’s Kruger park lost to poachers in a decade
Kruger National Park, home to the world’s largest concentration of rhinoceroses, has lost two thirds of its animals to poaching…