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A strategic report on poaching just released by the Department of Environmental Affairs shows that fewer rhinos but more elephants are being…
As long as consumers want rhino horn, South Africa will lose its rhinos to the slow, agonising blows of the…
DA MP Ross Purdon tabled a parliamentary motion this week calling on government departments to revisit this national rhino poaching crisis with…
The small decrease in overall poaching in 2017 has been overshadowed by a growing concern for the increase and broadening…
CAPE TOWN — If you thought our courts were the last redoubt in the defence of our Constitutional democracy, consider…
Wildlife crimes – like rhino poaching, overfishing or the harvesting of cycads – were once considered a “green” matter. But…
Private rhino horn owner John Hume recently held South Africa’s first online rhino horn auction, a major event in the…
A South African court has ordered the government to release a permit to the world’s largest rhino breeder, John Hume.…
The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) is watching with trepidation the brazen online rhino horn auction (www.rhinohornauction.com) that was supposed to…
With the Department of Environmental Affairs stalling the first legal rhino horn auction actually happening remains to be seen. Update…
The unprecedented growth of Chinese immigration has brought with it the feared Chinese organised crime syndicates called triads, who are…
At least 295 rhinos have been killed so far this year in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP), including four…
OPINION: Rhino – a commodity for sale? South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs is increasingly seeing wildlife as a commodity…
As South Africa continues to lose rhinos in the poaching war, it seems that the government is failing those fighting…
RECOMMENDATIONS SOUTH AFRICA SHOULD APPOINT A SPECIAL COURT TO DEAL WITH ALL RHINO HORN CASES SOUTH AFRICA SHOULD VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTE…
Last month Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa made two announcements relating to rhinos in South Africa. The big news was…
A 10% fall in poaching last year is not the good news it appears to be — especially considering SA…
This statement covers the period January through December 2016, which is inclusive of the period September to December 2016. …
Minister onverskillig en slu, sê drukgroepe Enigiemand sal voortaan twee renosterhorings “vir persoonlike doeleindes” mag landuit neem as voorgenome regulasies…