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The vultures aren’t hovering over Africa – and that’s bad news
It’s hard to love vultures. Their bare-headed appearance, scavenging habits and reputation as the refuse disposal workers of the bird…
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Conservation Leaders Urge UN World Tourism Organisation: Curb Wildlife Exploitation
The thing with keeping wildlife in cages is that it almost always turns around to bite you in the behind.…
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The Trump Administration Is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List.
After three years in office, the Trump administration has dismantled most of the major climate and environmental policies the president…
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Wildlife at risk as hunger encircles Kruger Park
The Kruger National Park is being encircled by a ring of human hunger triggered in part by the Covid-19 pandemic.…
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South Africa traffics thousands of endangered wild animals to China in ‘corrupt and growing’ trade, investigation finds
South African traders with China are illegally selling thousands of wild animals threatened with extinction and endangered, under the guise of legal…
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Exploitation changes leopard behaviour with long-term genetic costs
Throughout their range leopards are in rapid decline, having disappeared from North Africa, much of the Middle East and Asia. Declines…
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MISSING SIX HOURS? KWAZULU NATAL WILDLIFE AUTHORITY UNDER FIRE FOR KILLING A LONE ELEPHANT BULL.
DA spokesperson on Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs, Heinz de Boer, has called for an urgent portfolio committee investigation…
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‘TIGER KING’ AND THE TRUTH ABOUT CAPTIVE TIGERS
Netflix’s “Tiger King” makes for good television drama but it fails miserably in exposing the truth about captive tigers and…
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Coronavirus is a crisis for South Africa’s captive lions, campaigners warn
Captive lions in South Africa could face starvation or euthanization as tourist revenues disappear amid the COVD-19 pandemic, according to…
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Coronavirus: WHO urges China to close ‘dangerous’ wet market as stalls in Wuhan begin to reopen
’75 per cent of emerging infections come from the animal kingdom… It’s partly the markets, but it’s also other places where humans…
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The new coronavirus emerged from the global wildlife trade – and may be devastating enough to end it
COVID-19 is one of countless emerging infectious diseases that are zoonotic, meaning they originate in animals. About 75% of emerging infectious…
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The captive lion breeding industry puts conservation and public health at risk
South Africa is replicating China’s policies that resulted in the Covid-19 outbreak, including mandates promoting domesticating and breeding wild species.…
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China’s coronavirus battle may be ending but its war on eating wild animals has just begun
China’s latest ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals will wipe out wet markets, but they are just…
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Unbelievable: Chinese Gov’t recommends injections containing bear bile to treat coronavirus
Despite a scientific consensus pointing to China’s wildlife trade as the most likely cause of the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s…
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South Africa wants to promote wildlife consumption
South Africa is turning towards the implementation of new laws that fully allows the economic exploitation of wildlife. The intention…
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Scales tip in favour of pangolins as hosts of Coronavirus ‘transition’
As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads its tentacles across all continents except Antarctica, scientists in China and the US are racing…
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Botswana’s conservation policies driven by profit, not science
When Botswana banned hunting in 2014, proponents of ‘sustainable utilisation’ of wildlife claimed the government was pandering to emotions and…
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Covid-19: Planet Earth fights back
The flip side to Covid-19 is first the understanding that we are not invincible and are just another species on…
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Should elephants be considered refugees?
A refugee is by definition a human—but should elephants and other animals qualify, too? Consider what life is like for…