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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…
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Wildebeest migrations in East Africa face extinction. What must be done
White-bearded wildebeest migrate through the Mara. Jane Rix/Shutterstock Joseph Ogutu, University of Hohenheim Across the world, migratory animals like wildebeest…
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How a South African hunting resort opened a window to Saudi crown prince’s business empire
An investigation that began with an obscure Limpopo game farm has uncovered a shadowy international network of proxies, offshore firms…
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From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth’s great animal migrations
Wildebeest crossing the Mara River in Tanzania during their annual mass migration. Jane Rix/Shutterstock Bill Laurance, James Cook University and…
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The big cat con: Inside Africa’s shocking battery farms for lions
Some ranches are effectively battery farms CREDIT: FERGUS THOMAS he growing appetite for ‘conservation holidays’ has shone a light on the dark…
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Bloc adopts scientific wildlife management system (African Kavango-Zambezi Trans-Frontier Conservation Area [KAZA-TFCA] countries)
Minister Priscah Mupfumira Kavango-Zambezi Trans-Frontier Conservation Area (KAZA-TFCA) countries have resolved to adopt a scientific wildlife management system in national…
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Kenya on the brink of acquitting ivory trafficker number four
On April 11, Chief Magistrate Francis Kyambia is set to make judgement in a Mombasa, Kenya court on the ivory…
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Government decides to slaughter 25 elephants in Mozambique
The Government of Philip Nyusi, which has as one of its priorities “Ensuring the Sustainable and Transparent Management of Natural…
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Japan’s new rules for curbing ivory trade won’t work, many experts say
Starting July 1, anyone in Japan who wishes to register and sell a whole elephant tusk must first prove its…