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The federal government has issued more than three dozen permits allowing hunters to import lion trophies from two African nations…
Dogged by allegations of bribery and unethical operators, a dodgy permitting system, and the contentious hunting of so-called ‘problem animals’…
The Far East’s growing demand for animal body parts will fuel the export of 1,500 lion skeletons from South Africa…
1. The Petition 1.1 On the 7th June 2018, a citizen of the United States of America, named in a recent…
The killing of a lion in the Greater Kruger National Park last week sparked outrage. The lion was shot by…
This is in response to Kruger lions: Who really cares about conservation by Peter Flack. Let’s get this straight. The gratuitous…
Trophy hunting is like the fossil fuel industry. They’re both messy, unsustainable, in need of an alternative approach and, ultimately,…
Criminal syndicates may use the legal trade in lion bones from our captive lion population, as a cover for illegal…
The US will now consider issuing permits to import elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Tanzania on a case by case…
Changes to Cites legislation in 2016 allowing South Africa to establish ‘annual export quotas for trade in bones, bone pieces,…
PREAMBLE Demands for competing land uses that are not compatible with conservation practices, make the need for viable conservation incentives…
The relevance of trophy hunting as a conservation tool in Africa came under the spotlight yet again as American and…
US policy on trophy hunting has descended into a confusion of mixed messages following a tweet by President Donald Trump…
US President Donald Trump and his Department of Interior Affairs Secretary, Ryan Zinke, have halted the reversal of a ban on importation of…
If you were an elephant, you might be puzzling over human behavior this week. On Monday, the animal-rights attorney Steven…
When thousands of people donated nearly R20-million to the Oxford University Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) after the killing of…
The National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA) and Blood Lions® have released a new short film to the public to create…
Two of the only five remaining mature desert elephant bulls that occupied the Ugab region of Namibia have recently been…
Call it Noah’s Ark on lorries. Dozens of trucks rolled over the Zimbabwe savanna carrying elephants, giraffe, African buffalo, zebras,…
As South Africa continues to lose rhinos in the poaching war, it seems that the government is failing those fighting…