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Illegal collared elephant hunt in Greater Kruger – warden convicted
On 13 August this year a scheduled elephant hunt was conducted illegally in Balule Nature Reserve, a private reserve within…
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CITES lets world’s worst elephant poaching countries off the hook
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, China, Thailand and the Philippines, some of the world’s worst countries for poaching and illegal trade in…
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Captive lion breeding for hunting in South Africa colloquium Day 1, with Minister present
Chairperson: Mr M Mapulane (ANC) Meeting Summary The Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs hosted a two-day colloquium on captive lion…
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OP-ED: Lion bones and predator farming – picking on the carcass of SA tourism
Predator breeding using lions and other species could cost South Africa over R54-billion over the next 10 years in loss…
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Bribery in Namibia: Government forced community into silence
Dogged by allegations of bribery and unethical operators, a dodgy permitting system, and the contentious hunting of so-called ‘problem animals’…
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The Controversial Lion Hunt in Umbabat – South Africa
1. The Petition 1.1 On the 7th June 2018, a citizen of the United States of America, named in a recent…
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Do Conservation Strategies Need to Be More Compassionate?
Some scientists and ethicists are criticizing traditional conservation strategies, which they say focus on saving valued species while discounting the…
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African vultures under the gun as lead ammunition takes a toll
Fragments of lead ammunition in abandoned animal carcasses may be poisoning Africa’s vultures, a new study has found. Researchers found…
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East London Zoo plans to cage endangered Wild Dogs for ‘conservation’
The troubled East London Zoo’s plans to buy Wild Dogs as soon as a moratorium on purchasing animals at the…
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Like the fossil fuel industry, trophy hunting is unsustainable
Trophy hunting is like the fossil fuel industry. They’re both messy, unsustainable, in need of an alternative approach and, ultimately,…
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The debate is over: Earth’s sixth great extinction has arrived
Limiting climate change is just the start of what we need to do to forestall a runaway cascade of species…
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Major trader Rakuten to ban ivory sales as major sales route closes after mounting international criticism
A major online retailer of ivory is to ban its sale, closing a major marketplace for the controversial trade. Japanese website…
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A mass extinction is on the cards, and humans are responsible
Is it too late to stop this extinction? We are teetering on the brink of a sixth mass extinction according…
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Secret footage obtained of the wild elephants sold into captivity in Chinese zoos
Animal welfare advocates have filmed some of the wild elephants captured in Zimbabwe last year and shipped to China Last…
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Neglected reserve’s truant elephant shot (South Africa)
A wandering elephant on an Eastern Cape reserve owned by a wealthy Arab sheik was shot dead at the weekend…
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Zimbabwe hostile to conservationists
Zimbabwe seems to have degenerated into a nation hostile to conservationists that preach the environmental protection gospel. The hostility is…
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Southern Africa’s Wildlife Trade: An analysis of CITES trade in SADC countries
Southern Africa is losing protected wild plants and animals at an alarming rate. Between 2005 and 2014, around 18,000 individual…
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CITES Alone Cannot Combat Illegal Wildlife Trade
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) will address the growing…
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Without wildlife there is no tourism
“Without wildlife there is no tourism,” said Grace Nderitu, Ecotourism Kenya’s respected CEO. Wildlife tourism is the cornerstone of the…
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Botswana sells fracking rights in national park
Licences for more than half of the Kgalagadi transfrontier park, one of Africa’s largest conservation areas, have been granted to…