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IUCN SULi is supporting a narrative-changing ‘hunter advocacy’ program
The Wild Harvest Initiative seeks to normalize hunting with the help of IUCN SULi and trophy hunting industry groups. IUCN…
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US trophy hunter one of many spilling blood on “the dark continent”
Trophy hunting is still legal in South Africa, and people like Tom Miranda from the USA represents a R1.4 billion…
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The Long Read: Fishing Industry Lobbies Against CITES Modernisation – Here’s Why
Over the last two years, Nature Needs More has continued to meet with politicians and government agencies in our push…
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Trophy hunting incentivises killing of endangered animals, warns Zambian environmentalist
Germany has become the latest European country to announce a potential ban on the import of hunting trophies. The move comes as…
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Report on captive lions raises huge welfare, health red flags, and a zoonosis warning
Zoonosis, where disease jumps from animals to humans, caused the Covid-19 pandemic. Apart from welfare concerns, the huge number of…
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Inside how Botswana’s trophy hunting is making the rich richer and the poor poorer
Botswana’s trophy hunting which was supposed to benefit local communities is instead shifting wealth from them to the country’s big…
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Uproar over plan to litter Botswana’s Chobe National Park with lodges
Chobe National Park’s goose that lays the golden egg of Botswana tourism is under threat of being killed by eight…
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CHARLIE THE ELEPHANT HELD IN CAPTIVITY IN THE NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS
EMS FOUNDATION PUBLIC STATEMENT OF CONCERN THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT FAILS CHARLIE, THE ELEPHANT HELD IN CAPTIVITY AT THE NATIONAL…
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Desperate land invasions condemn South Africa’s wild lands to ‘death by a thousand cuts’
Expanding croplands, human settlement, plantation forestry and mining are speeding up habitat loss in game and nature reserves across the…
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Media release: Namibia exports 22 Wild elephants in blatant disregard of international law
On the 6th March 2022, the Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) finally admitted in an emailed statement…
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Wildlife trade body branded ‘toothless paper tiger’ amid ongoing elephant-related scandals
Elephants are going to be the talk of France in the coming days. The international wildlife trading body has a meeting…
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NAMIBIAN WILD ELEPHANTS SENT INTO CAPTIVITY IN THE UAE: THE CITES TREATY – A PAPER TIGER AND AN ACTIVE ENABLER OF CRUELTY
PUBLIC STATEMENT SATURDAY 5TH MARCH 2022 The EMS Foundation has been informed that rare wild caught Namibian desert adapted elephants,…
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In Nigeria, a decade of payoffs boosted global wildlife trafficking hub
An investigation by Nigeria’s Premium Times and Mongabay has found evidence of systematic failure by Nigerian law enforcement and the…
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To hell in a gift basket: The deceptions and dangers of corporate conservation and philanthrocapitalism
In July 2021, the Born Free Foundation (BFF) published another in a series of reports that challenge the claims, and public perception,…
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Namibia’s wild elephants are being rounded up for international sale
Namibia is in the process of capturing 57 wild elephants sold last year at auction, according to a statement today from the…
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Great sadness for Botswana
Today, the last two introduced white rhinos at Mombo are being captured and moved to a sanctuary. It is maybe…
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Latest rhino poaching statistics are beyond alarming: We are facing annihilation of the species
The reality is that rhino numbers in SANParks reserves have decreased by 75% over the past 10 years. In a…
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Polar bear auctions and declining elephant numbers: the trophy hunting industry’s latest scandals
The trophy hunting lobby group Safari Club International (SCI) attracted media attention in January. This was for auctioning off killing trips for a…
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Creecy under fire over proposed law change – Is there a sinister plan to strip civil society of legal recourse in environmental disputes?
On 31 December, when much of the country was on holiday or gearing up for the New Year’s Eve jollies,…
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Hunting trophy ban must be backed by a global fund to support communities living with wildlife
The issue of trophy hunting is highly emotive, and the UK government plans to ban the import of trophies. But…