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It’s hard to love vultures. Their bare-headed appearance, scavenging habits and reputation as the refuse disposal workers of the bird…

The thing with keeping wildlife in cages is that it almost always turns around to bite you in the behind.…

After three years in office, the Trump administration has dismantled most of the major climate and environmental policies the president…

The Kruger National Park is being encircled by a ring of human hunger triggered in part by the Covid-19 pandemic.…

South African traders with China are illegally selling thousands of wild animals threatened with extinction and endangered, under the guise of legal…

Throughout their range leopards are in rapid decline, having disappeared from North Africa, much of the Middle East and Asia. Declines…

DA spokesperson on Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs, Heinz de Boer, has called for an urgent portfolio committee investigation…

Netflix’s “Tiger King” makes for good television drama but it fails miserably in exposing the truth about captive tigers and…

Captive lions in South Africa could face starvation or euthanization as tourist revenues disappear amid the COVD-19 pandemic, according to…
’75 per cent of emerging infections come from the animal kingdom… It’s partly the markets, but it’s also other places where humans…

COVID-19 is one of countless emerging infectious diseases that are zoonotic, meaning they originate in animals. About 75% of emerging infectious…

South Africa is replicating China’s policies that resulted in the Covid-19 outbreak, including mandates promoting domesticating and breeding wild species.…

China’s latest ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals will wipe out wet markets, but they are just…

Despite a scientific consensus pointing to China’s wildlife trade as the most likely cause of the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s…

South Africa is turning towards the implementation of new laws that fully allows the economic exploitation of wildlife. The intention…

As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads its tentacles across all continents except Antarctica, scientists in China and the US are racing…

When Botswana banned hunting in 2014, proponents of ‘sustainable utilisation’ of wildlife claimed the government was pandering to emotions and…

The flip side to Covid-19 is first the understanding that we are not invincible and are just another species on…

A refugee is by definition a human—but should elephants and other animals qualify, too? Consider what life is like for…