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This is in response to Kruger lions: Who really cares about conservation by Peter Flack. Let’s get this straight. The gratuitous…
Johannesburg, South Africa (June 2018) – Humane Society International/Africa and the African Pangolin Working Group have received donations from four…
After Cecil the lion was shot and killed by an American dentist three years ago, YouTube was flooded with searches…
Some scientists and ethicists are criticizing traditional conservation strategies, which they say focus on saving valued species while discounting the…
Given the importance of wildlife in South Africa’s tourism industry and its international reputation, it may come as a surprise…
Fifty-six years after Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” warned of bird die-offs from pesticides, a new biocrisis may be emerging. A study…
The online sale of endangered and threatened wildlife is rife across Europe, a new investigation has revealed, ranging from live…
Fragments of lead ammunition in abandoned animal carcasses may be poisoning Africa’s vultures, a new study has found. Researchers found…
Elephants are in an extremely precarious state in both Africa and Asia. Demand for ivory from Africa has caused significant…
On Mother’s Day 2018, Sharon Pincott (known during her years in Hwange as Mandlovu, ‘Mother Elephant’) urges President Mnangagwa and…
Pangolins are the most trafficked mammal in the world, with more than a million snatched from the wild in the…
11 May 2018 Attention: Dr Edna Molewa Minister of Environmental Affairs Department of Environmental Affairs Environment House Cnr. Steve Biko…
As long as consumers want rhino horn, South Africa will lose its rhinos to the slow, agonising blows of the…
China deserves credit for shutting down the illegal trading in elephant ivory that has contributed in recent years to the…
“Cuddle Me, Kill Me” started off as the fourth book in a Struik Nature (Penguin Random House) published series telling…
China’s new domestic ban on the ivory trade presents all the makings of an excellent global public-relations exercise. But it…
The trade of items made from ivory will be banned in the UK in a bid to help protect elephants,…
Wildebeest rarely stay still for long. With sloping hindquarters, and an easy loping gait, their bodies are designed to move.…
In 2016, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) shifted the conservation status of giraffes from species of “least…
A large bull elephant has been shot dead by a Russian trophy hunter in Zimbabwe despite wearing a research tag. …