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Mega climate shocks for SA biodiversity — government report
Ninety scientific institutions led by the South African National Biodiversity Institute have released a shock report that unveils waves of…
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Anti-hunting groups seek to oust big-game hunters from global conservation body
Anti-hunting campaigners have said they will seek the expulsion of pro-safari groups from the world’s most authoritative conservation organisation after…
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BornFree: The Great Betrayal (video).
Join the movement to stop lion farming and canned hunting. South Africa’s lions should be born free and stay wild.…
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Trump Admin Grants First Lion Trophy Import Permit Since Listed as Threatened
A Florida man has been allowed to import a Tanzanian lion’s skin, skull, claws and teeth, a first since the…
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What is our true heritage?
Swati Thiyagarajan is a conservation journalist and author of book Born Wild: Journeys in the Wild Hearts of India and Africa (Bloomsbury…
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Ships’ risky fuel transfers are threatening African Penguins
The African Penguin is in serious trouble. Its population has fallen by more than 95% over the last century and, despite ongoing…
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Plunder in the wild: We need to scale up on pangolin protection
Pangolin numbers are dwindling at alarming rates – in South Africa and across the globe – and the future appears…
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How to stop trophy hunting? Buy up all the licences
A B.C. conservation group is on a mission to purchase all the commercial hunting licences in the Great Bear Rainforest,…
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THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH ABOUT NAMIBIA’S CONSERVATION MODEL
The hunting of Voortrekker, an iconic Namibian desert elephant, for just R120 000 has sparked the debate on whether Namibia’s…
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Trophy-hunting firms banned from gun show after protests (UK)
Trophy-hunting businesses targeting big-game hunters in Britain have been banned from a shooting show after public objections. The NEC in…
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FEATURE Zoos Called It a ‘Rescue.’ But Are the Elephants Really Safe?
Despite mounting evidence that elephants find captivity torturous, some American zoos still acquire them from Africa — aided by a…
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Should zoos exist?
Should the future of educating the public about exotic animals be in sanctuaries and virtual zoos, not places where animals…
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Over 500 Critically Endangered Vultures Die in Botswana After Eating Poisoned Elephant Carcasses
Poachers are known to poison carcasses to target vultures as the birds circle in the sky and help rangers to…
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African Elephant Coalition (AEC): Japan your ivory market !
The Council of Elders of the African Elephant Coalition (AEC) comprising 32 African countries and the majority of African elephant…
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Big-game hunting group ‘using influence on conservation watchdogs to undermine protections for endangered animals’
Exclusive: Organisation has been heavily involved in Cites and IUCN for up to 20 years, winning campaigns to allow African lions and other species…
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Sam Wasser pours his intense passion for protecting wildlife into research and catching poachers
The carcass of a poisoned elephant decomposes in the Masai Mara. The National Academy of Sciences published a report in…
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Trophy hunting in Africa: the case for viable, sustainable alternatives
Photographic camps are more beneficial to communities than hunting. Shutterstock Muchazondida Mkono, The University of Queensland For decades, the public…
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Elephants pay the price for politics
Photo credit: ISS Today Are Southern African governments allowing resentment against perceived Western finger-wagging to cloud their judgement? If Botswana’s…
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Could YouTube help save the Pangolin?
View the film trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QKPJC0CQY Eye of the Pangolin, the ground-breaking new documentary about the most trafficked mammal on earth, will…
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Tiger farms in Laos fuel demand for tiger parts on black market
THA BAK, Laos — He was up there somewhere, at the top of the hill, the man Karl Ammann had come…