Big cats are poached for their hides, organs and bones, while the other animals are hunted for their meat.   Kruger spokesperson Isaac Phaahla. Snaring in the Kruger...

The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area (GLTFCA), which includes Kruger National Park, in South Africa, and Limpopo National Park, in Mozambique, is one of the last ten...

VANISHING TREASURES The remnant natural forests of Zululand have enjoyed legal protection for several decades – on paper at least. But there is a different picture on the ground....

The move imperils countless threatened creatures, from elephants and primates to sea turtles. An elephant at Amboseli National Park in Kenya.Media Drum World/ZUMA This story was...

The recent years-long drought may have tipped parts of the Northern Cape towards an irreversible dust bowl, following decades of heavy grazing and mining. As Earth’s average...

Vietnam’s apparent reluctance to share DNA samples of smuggled horns with South Africa – the country with the largest remaining populations of rhinos in the world, albeit...

What the Research Says About Elephant Numbers   All we know is that change is certain, and elephants have and will continue to change the ecosystems in which they occur even...

A new study has highlighted the potential of separate water points for elephants, located away from villages, to significantly reduce human-elephant interactions in Namibia’s...

Some four years after the mysterious death of nearly 400 African elephants in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, remote sensing and spatial analysis suggest that the massive die-off was...

In a discussion with Mike Wills, Sam Ferreira, a Large Mammal Ecologist at SANParks, highlights the complexities of managing elephant populations in Kruger Park, where...

Substantive wildlife tourism potential should be producing rapid broad-based development in all southern African countries.     Of the world’s remaining African...

WHY MINISTER GEORGE MUST OPPOSE THE APPLICATION BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN HUNTERS AND GAME CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION TO REMOVE WELL-BEING CLAUSES FROM ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION EMS...

It was only a matter of time before hunters challenged former environment minister Barbara Creecy’s new laws on the treatment of wild animals. The first salvo has just been fired...

The Human Elephant Foundation is concerned over the recent killing of nine elephants on a farm near Vryheid, in northern KwaZulu-Natal.
The foundation said there was no legal permission for this action, which is required by law.
However, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife refuted the claims that there was no permit.

Reining in the unruly global trade in wild species could help mitigate the climate emergency, experts say.   According to trade records, people plucked more than 400,000...

I have been working across three spheres of the ecotourism sector for the past 33 years. Principally, I am a co-owner of a safari company, and at times, I accompany guests as a...

The EPI Foundation, the secretariat to the 24 African member states of the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), has expressed its strong opposition to the reopening of domestic...

A generation ago, farming with animals like lions, rhinos and crocodiles would have seemed bizarre. Today, millions of wild animals are raised on farms to supply a burgeoning...

Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has barred fishing around key African Penguin breeding colonies, but conservation bodies say the closures fail to...

The Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) and Mozambique Tax Authority (AT) yesterday intercepted a 20-foot container containing 651 pieces of elephant tusk ivory at the port...

  BACKGROUND: We approached Michel Mantheakis – chairman of the Tanzanian Hunting Operators Association (TAHOA) – before publishing our report on the recent trophy...

 An international shortage of lab monkeys is driving prices higher, with concerns that this is fuelling the hidden market. (Photo: Nature Needs More)   Every year,...

  Two bottlenose dolphins cavort in the sea, jumping high out of the water, off the coast of False Bay, Western Cape. (Photo: Gallo Images / Deaan Vivier) As food fish...

Only when South Africa commits to implementing a phase-out of the entire captive big cat industry, with time-bound goals and objectives, can it begin to piece together its...

  In a striking development, American national Derek Lewitton was arrested by the Hawks, South Africa’s elite police unit, following the unearthing of 26 unreported rhino...

  South Africa’s limited protected-area estate is increasingly coming under threat from mining. This is facilitated by an enabling regulatory environment that permits mining...

Importing iconic African animal parts is no longer acceptable in Canada – but in the UK, peers blocked a similar ban. The Canadian government has banned domestic trade in...

      Chemicals in Cape Town's coastal waters could be affecting the breeding of endangered penguins. Research showed that contaminants around penguin colonies...

Since 2020, snaring has tripled in the crown jewels of South Africa’s Big Five reserves. This suggests economic hardship, although it is not the sole factor to blame. Snared...

A draft government policy proposes to end the keeping of lions for commercial purposes, as well as phasing out intensive commercial breeding of rhinos and regulating leopard...

The debate over trophy hunting has been raging in the UK again. As Sian Sullivan previously wrote for the Canary, pro-trophy hunting lobbyists turned...

Far from benefitting the lives of indigenous people and rural communities, trophy hunting activities trap them in a never-ending cycle of impoverishment and social...

NG13 is a remote, largely unpopulated 2,907km2 (290,000ha) region in the northern Botswana, zoned for multiple uses, including photographic tourism and trophy hunting. It shares...

South African National Parks has confirmed that lions have been targeted in a poisoning campaign in the northern Kruger Park by poachers seeking the animals’ body parts,...

Inside the cheetah black market, from poachers to messaging apps. For different reasons and in different black markets, the value of animals and animal parts varies. In...

    Ahead of the House of Lords’ 16 June debate on the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill, pro-trophy hunting group Resource Africa sent peers...

An elephant has been found dead after it was shot eight times during a trophy hunt in South Africa. The "deeply distressing and tragic trophy hunt" took place September 3 at the...

  A trustee, whose husband was killed by an elephant from Mawana Game Reserve, tried to have 3,600 of its wild animals culled ‘to get some cash flow going’. By the time the...

    A multinational and interdisciplinary team of scientists has published new research that provides critical insights into the damage that the legal wildlife trade...

Overwhelmed by the sheer number of bleeding soldiers at the Battle of Metz in 1793, a French military surgeon was forced to develop a rapid classification system to determine...

 One of three elephants shot and killed early in 2021 after escaping from Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park. (Photo: Supplied)   On paper, there are more than 400 provincial parks...

While official rhino poaching numbers are down, a lack of conservation personnel – specifically rangers – could see the small gains in numbers disappear. Warning bells on the...

It’s World Wildlife Day on 3 March. This year, the event coincides with the 50th anniversary of the global wildlife trading body. World Wildlife Day is an annual celebration of...

A tiger escaped from a residence and roamed the countryside outside Johannesburg, South Africa, for four days this month. It attacked a man and killed several animals,...

From 2008 to 2018, South Africa permitted the export of captive-bred lion skeletons. The well-being of a lion in captivity is irrelevant when all you want is its bones. This has...

Tourists viewing elephants from a boat on the Jozini/Pongolapoort Dam in northern KwaZulu-Natal ducked for cover on Wednesday as suspected elephant poachers opened fire. Eight...

An assessment of the categories used in existing ecosystem valuation frameworks, incorporating our additional elements. Categories are taken from the Common International...

ReconAfrica, a start-up oil exploration company with interests in Namibia and Botswana, is fighting for survival as its auditors resign, a cash crunch looms and a New York court...

As you read this, global attention is on COP15, the world’s biodiversity conference in Montreal, Canada. We are using the resources of 1,6 Earths and the ecosystems that sustain...

The European Union has come under fire from wildlife charities, among others, for some of its actions at the World Wildlife Conference. Not everyone is displeased with the trade...

Are elephants global treasures in urgent need of protection, or a commodity on the world market? According to positions being taken at the UN wildlife trade organisation Cites...

That’s the advice of Professor Rob Slotow, who says protected areas need to be sufficiently diverse and robust to bounce back from a range of major disturbances such as storms,...

Some say sending African cheetahs to India is a brilliant idea, others insist it’s possible but with warnings, and some say it’s an absolute disaster. If the 20 African cheetahs...

The global wildlife trading body urgently needs to review the assessments it uses to set leopard trophy hunting quotas, according to a recent study. The review is necessary to...

As an Afrikaner I understand the passion to hunt — it’s what we learnt at our father’s knee. But justifying it by the Bible and for pleasure is a step too far. I read the...

The Schweizer-Reneke Afrikaanse Protestantse Kerk boosts funds by offering prizes for killing as many wild animals as possible. The prizes? The licence to kill even bigger wild...

Our much-heralded new White Paper on Biodiversity establishes a much higher duty of care towards wild animals, but another strategy document makes a mockery of the minister’s...

Another paper has come out highlighting the negative impacts of the trophy hunting but is being spun by sustainable use activists in defense of trophy hunting. A Strampelli et...

We are urging the minister to immediately close the feeding grounds of South Africa’s African penguin colonies to the sardine or anchovy fishing industry for as long as necessary...

Conservationists in South Africa have sounded the alarm about 150 endangered vultures found dead in two separate poisoning incidents. Body parts were removed, seemingly with a...

Today (12 August) is World Elephant Day 2022 and, in a year full of important meetings likely to impact elephant conservation, we’re taking the opportunity to flag up key issues....

The Wild Harvest Initiative seeks to normalize hunting with the help of IUCN SULi and trophy hunting industry groups. IUCN SULi (Sustainable Use and Livelihood) and Oxford...

Trophy hunting is still legal in South Africa, and people like Tom Miranda from the USA represents a R1.4 billion sector that has many up in arms. Along with the bloody fate...

Over the last two years, Nature Needs More has continued to meet with politicians and government agencies in our push for modernising CITES. During this time, it has become clear...

Germany has become the latest European country to announce a potential ban on the import of hunting trophies. The move comes as those who support the practice have...

Zoonosis, where disease jumps from animals to humans, caused the Covid-19 pandemic. Apart from welfare concerns, the huge number of pathogens in caged and farmed lions is a time...

Botswana’s trophy hunting which was supposed to benefit local communities is instead shifting wealth from them to the country’s big businessmen- Sunday Standard investigations...

Chobe National Park’s goose that lays the golden egg of Botswana tourism is under threat of being killed by eight 75-bed lodges planned for its prime riverfront. If it goes...

EMS FOUNDATION PUBLIC STATEMENT OF CONCERN THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT FAILS CHARLIE, THE ELEPHANT HELD IN CAPTIVITY AT THE NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, PRETORIA This statement...

Expanding croplands, human settlement, plantation forestry and mining are speeding up habitat loss in game and nature reserves across the country.  Small groups of people...

On the 6th March 2022, the Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) finally admitted in an emailed statement that it has exported 22 wild-caught elephants...

Elephants are going to be the talk of France in the coming days. The international wildlife trading body has a meeting there from 7 to 11 March, and it has a...

PUBLIC STATEMENT SATURDAY 5TH MARCH 2022 The EMS Foundation has been informed that rare wild caught Namibian desert adapted elephants, as part of a clearly commercial...

An investigation by Nigeria’s Premium Times and Mongabay has found evidence of systematic failure by Nigerian law enforcement and the judicial system to hold wildlife poachers...

In July 2021, the Born Free Foundation (BFF) published another in a series of reports that challenge the claims, and public perception, of zoos as venerable...

Namibia is in the process of capturing 57 wild elephants sold last year at auction, according to a statement today from the country’s Ministry of Environment, Forestry...

Today, the last two introduced white rhinos at Mombo are being captured and moved to a sanctuary. It is maybe the last toll of the bell for Botswana’s enthusiastic programme to...

The reality is that rhino numbers in SANParks reserves have decreased by 75% over the past 10 years. In a few years’ time, private reserve owners may well be guarding the only...

The trophy hunting lobby group Safari Club International (SCI) attracted media attention in January. This was for auctioning off killing trips for a polar bear and...

On 31 December, when much of the country was on holiday or gearing up for the New Year’s Eve jollies, Environment Minister Barbara Creecy quietly proposed some seemingly...

The issue of trophy hunting is highly emotive, and the UK government plans to ban the import of trophies. But if it goes ahead, it must look at establishing a global conservation...

Do you have any desire to stalk and kill an elephant? Probably not, but some relish the idea. Recently the world’s largest trophy hunting convention took place in Las...

Wildlife Justice Commission says South Korea-China shipping route should be flagged as ‘high risk’ for traffickingWJC says case involving Chinese family shows criminals are...

When vast areas of northern Botswana are denuded of trees, elephants almost always get the blame. We need to start looking elsewhere. The debate on what to do about elephants in...

BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- China has seen a significant decline in ivory smuggling, as efforts to clamp down on the practice intensified, the General Administration of Customs...

The Kruger National Park has a major rhino-poaching crisis, but that’s just one of many mounting problems — and it’s extremely worrying. Crags of ancient rock and twisting...

Delayed legislation includes ban on trophy hunting imports and stricter sentences for puppy thieves. Some of the government’s most prized new animal welfare...

Dr Bool Smuts of the Landmark Foundation is known in the environmental field for his willingness to fight for ethical conduct towards wildlife, particularly leopards. He doesn’t...

Hong Kong has been accused of playing an oversized role in the ivory industry.  A ban on selling most ivory products in Hong Kong came into effect Friday, the culmination of a...

Male elephants are more aggressive when fewer older males are present, new research suggests. The research, by the University of Exeter, suggests that the removal of...

RUNDU, NAMIBI Canadian oil and gas exploration company Reconnaissance Energy Africa has bulldozed land for a test oil well inside a protected wildlife area in northeastern...

Namibia’s Community-Based Natural Resource Management is seen as a global gold standard for conservation. But a probe has found that it’s falling apart. An investigation into...

A giraffe that was decapitated in 2014 when a transporting vehicle moving the animal to a game farm drove under a low bridge in Pretoria; captive lions found neglected...

There should be a “zero hunting quota” put in place for elephant, black rhino and leopards. That was the comment from Humane Society International Africa (HSI) as public...

Johannesburg - Global animal welfare organisation Four Paws have urged government to consider legislative changes to stop the commercial trade of all big cats in South Africa....

A number of concerns related to trophy hunting have come to the fore recently. South Africa has faced criticism for releasing killing quotas that lack scientific evidence to back...

Grassroots opposition to the relentless deluge of applications for offshore oil and gas exploration and drilling will continue until extractive industries leave our shores. he...

DURBAN - EZEMVELO Wildlife is facing escalating threats from communities around some of its parks who are demanding full-time employment and are threatening to invade the parks...

While South Africa’s national crime statistics make it evident why the country is seen as one of the worst places in the world for violent crime, the latest Global...

Thirty captive lions on a private breeding farm in the Free State, South Africa, have had to be euthanised after the farm owner apparently left them suffering for days after...

Tour operators and guides encourage visitors to buy illegal ivory, tiger ‘glue’ and other products Tourist guides and information centres in Southeast Asia have been fuelling the...

SINGAPORE, Sept 21 (Reuters) - After a drastic reduction in wildlife trafficking during the pandemic, authorities in Southeast Asia must act swiftly to stop smugglers getting...

The estimated rhino population in Africa is about 18,000, which represents a 12% decline in the past decade, according to the latest State of Rhino report, published by the...

 A 53-year-old warrant officer within the South African Police Service (SAPS) was on Friday appearing in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court, with a female accomplice, on...

Criminal networks in Somaliland smuggle cubs out of Africa to wealthy buyers abroad. Now the breakaway African state is fighting back. Do you know these animals? The question...

Cites regulations prohibit Namibia from exporting elephants, except to conservation programmes within the species range The non-governmental organisation Foundation Franz Weber...

James A. Baker III was secretary of state under President George H.W. Bush. Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state under President Barack Obama. As the world watches...

Parliament invites the public to comment on the Draft Policy Position on the Conservation and Ecologically Sustainable Use of Elephant, Lion, Leopard and Rhino. CALL FOR ACTION:...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna, based in Geneva, was set up to protect endangered species, but it has as many holes as Swiss...

It has been six years since the death of Cecil, a male lion who was a popular individual for wildlife viewing tourists visiting Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. The...

Canadian company ReconAfrica is currently digging for oil in Namibia, with further exploration in Botswana moving forward too. Ultimately, the company aims...

The Kasanka National Park in Zambia – home to the world’s largest mammal migration – is under immediate threat from agricultural development. Up to ten million fruit bats migrate...

Durban - Dr Audrey Delsink was afraid of elephants when she started out in the field of natural sciences, but now has a real passion for them, as well as managing and conserving...

Allowing the manipulation of the genes of indigenous wildlife species through their listing as domesticated wildlife under the Animal Improvement Act will erode the...

When one of South Africa’s worst environmental disasters unfolded 21 years ago, Lauren Waller made her way to the Salt River warehouse in Cape Town, donned rubber gloves and...

A whistleblower complaint to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cites “egregious” violations by ReconAfrica and executives. ReconAfrica, a Canadian company exploring for...

Lie detector tests are to be introduced for staff at Kruger National Park amid fears that international poaching gangs have infiltrated the ranger force in South Africa’s...

Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has announced: “The Panel identified that the captive lion industry poses risks to the sustainability of wild lion conservation resulting...

Tiger Mafia Synopsis The initial 200 hours of footage shot for this documentary came together over a ten year period and a dozen trips to SE Asia and several to South Africa....

Before the pandemic, it was one of the best time ever to be a human. We lived longer, fought much less and had extra alternatives than our ancestors. This is the world that we...

Researchers have identified that captive and wild lions carry 63 pathogens that could result in about 83 diseases and clinical symptoms.Drawing on this research, conservationists...

The elephant hunting season opened on April 6th, 2021 in Botswana. The Botswana authorities have issued permits to kill 287 pachyderms by the end of the season in September 2021....

Across the continent, traditional healers are increasingly using the body parts of vultures, creating an illegal market that has experts alarmed.  Last year, at dawn on...

The controversial sale of elephants from Zimbabwe to other countries, mostly China, is again in the spotlight. The renewed scrutiny comes due to author...

Many wildlife species are threatened by shrinking habitat. But according to new research, the potential range of African elephants could be more than five times larger than its...

The film gets some things wrong, but it exposes the grim ecological destruction of the Earth’s oceans When the BBC made a film about the crisis in our oceans, it somehow managed...

Years of artificial water sources in the park have led to a number of ecological problems and landscape degradation.   Strategically placed boreholes to cope with...

Cape Town - FORTY SANParks employees found guilty of being involved in rhino poaching have been dismissed, Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has...

The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority may have misled the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna (CITES) when it reported having sold 97 baby...

The essential and gorgeously diverse array of life on Earth is disappearing fast. That’s a tragedy of Shakespearian proportions*, as a future planet without...

The EndPandemics alliance brings together various groups working to prevent future zoonotic disease outbreaks by ending the wildlife trade and the destruction of nature, and...

The captive lion industry is putting the health of tourists, industry workers and communities at risk because of the so-called 'Sick Five'. You’ve heard about the Big Five, but...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is one of the most important international bodies in the world right now. Its actions...

In the morning hours of Monday, January 25th alleged ivory/rhino horn, and drug trafficker, Mansur Mohamed Surur, was led from his Nairobi jail cell to a waiting vehicle. He was...

This month, ReconAfrica’s multimillion-dollar drilling rig pierced a riverbed in elephant habitat some 160 miles from the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta. WALVIS BAY, NAMIBIAThe...

Kruger National Park, home to the world’s largest concentration of rhinoceroses, has lost two thirds of its animals to poaching over the past decade, according to new data....

The idea of being able to put a price on nature is dividing opinion, but the financial value of ‘ecosystem services’ is increasingly guiding policy In 1996, Prof Shahid Naeem was...

Flemming Emil Hanson (Zenger, 26 January 2021) reports that “A hunter is facing up to five years in jail for killing an endangered tiger in South Africa, importing it to...

After years of silence about Kruger National Park rhino populations from South Africa’s Ministry of Forestry and Fisheries and Environmental Affairs, we can now confirm that...

Heavily-pregnant animals among species transported across continents, lawyers say China and the world’s wildlife trade watchdog are facing legal questions over the...

https://youtu.be/ECzGSOco1sg In the United Arab Emirates, the possession and trafficking of wild animals have been officially banned since 2017. Yet every day on social media,...

Eleven years ago, out in the cool, coastal waters of Gansbaai on the Western Cape’s Atlantic seaboard, Dr Sara Andreotti was awed by how many great white sharks she...

Environmental activists warn that plans to drill in Namibia and Botswana pose significant ecological risks. “The day we die a soft breeze will wipe out our footprints in the...

Should the undoubted intelligence of octopuses change the way we treat them? This question has been asked a lot of late because of the documentary My Octopus Teacher. ...

2020 was a bumpy year for the wildlife trade and the UN body that is meant to oversee the buying and selling of wild lives on an international level. The coronavirus...

llegal wildlife ads have increased on Facebook despite its steps to combat animal trafficking. Crime watch groups are calling for broad legal reforms. WHEN A SQUAD of...

Pangolins are considered the most trafficked mammal in the world and one of the major threats facing them is the demand for their scales, primarily in China.  The legal...

Two prolific British trophy hunters are unmasked today as a network of trolls targets Boris Johnson’s government for threatening to clamp down on big-game hunting. Abigail Day, a...

Pesticide lobby group CropLife SA, which represents major manufacturers, wants to oversee the licensing of scientists responsible for testing its members’ pesticides, leaked...

Conservation and animal welfare organisations, Humane Society International-Africa (HSI-Africa) and Blood Lions on Monday called for a ban of South Africa’s captive lion breeding...

Once again, a scientific paper is presented in a way to disparage critics of the trophy hunting community despite its shortcomings and potentially contradictory interpretations....

Hundreds of oil wells could come to cover a huge expanse in Namibia and Botswana, in what has been called possibly the “largest oil play of the decade.” Conservationists and...

Empathy in conservation is hotly debated. Still, the world needs more stories like My Octopus Teacher IMDb Kathryn Williams, University of Melbourne; Christopher McCormack,...

Zimbabwe sold 32 baby elephants to China in October 2019, after tearing them away from their wild families in 2018, for the latter country’s use in zoos. The...

Content warning: The following article contains images and descriptions of animal abuse that readers might find distressing. Tigers are in a very precarious situation, with only...

Michael ‘t Sas-Rolfes told me know that he thinks some of my more recent posts were verging into “QAnon territory.” He is presumably referring my claims about the Property and...

Trophy hunting advocates love to argue that those who disagree with their views on wildlife conservation are incapable or unwilling to understand science. Yet, trophy hunting...

Climate change appears to be disrupting the yield of fruit trees, a critical food source for many large mammals in Central Africa.A new study warns that endangered forest...

We are working with conservation charity Space for Giants to protect wildlife at risk from poachers due to the conservation funding crisis caused by Covid-19. Help is desperately...

In 1996, Safari Club International and their African Chapter held a series of visits and meetings around the African continent. The result was a report called the SCI...

“The price of the private dining room would be included in the price of the pangolin, along with the rest of the dinner”. In this excerpt, Peirce recounts a trip to Vietnam...

In the relatively shallow waters of the upper Gulf of California in Mexico a ghostly menace has driven the world’s smallest porpoise to the brink of extinction: gill nets. Only...

Three years ago, a friend and I went to the Two Oceans aquarium in Cape Town and witnessed the damage plastic causes to endangered species such as turtles. The aquarium rescues...

Two months after the entire board of the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife conservation agency packed their bags to go on suspension, the organisation remains in limbo – with no clear...

Lawmakers in Beijing are currently revising the Wildlife Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China, the country’s most important piece of legislation covering...

Last year, Born Free released The Bitter Bond—a multi-award-winning animated short film depicting the callous exploitation of lions from birth to premature death by the...

The formal protection of Hwange in Zimbabwe dates from 1928. At that time most game species were at low concentrations and elephants in particular were very rare.  From the...

In a press conference today, the Deputy Director and Chief Veterinary Officer of the Botswana Department of Wildlife and National Parks presented little convincing information to...

At least 26 great apes illegally removed from the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been seized in Zimbabwe, where four suspected traffickers have been arrested....

With its pastel-colored skin and mouth that seems fixed into a smile, the web-footed gecko (Pachydactylus rangei) is a charming-looking creature. The species, which is endemic to...

Old male elephants play a key role in leading all-male groups, new research suggests. Trophy hunters justify targeting older bull elephants on the grounds they are...

The Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife conservation agency is in the news again for all the wrong reasons after the entire board of directors was suspended last week following ‘prima facie...

The entire board of Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife has been suspended, bringing into sharp focus the deep management problems within the entity that is responsible for 80 game...

Some conservationists and activists in South Africa are concerned that criminal syndicates are making it even more difficult to protect rhinos from poachers. “GO NOW!...

In their latest marketing ploy, the trophy hunting industry co-opted the Black Lives Matter movement to fight California’s proposed trophy hunting import ban....

The EU’s new Green Deal strategy offers ‘guidance’ to African countries but does nothing to stop Europe’s own ivory market, Rosei Awori writes As part of its plans to be the...

How can anyone be proud of killing such magnificent creatures, asks leading primatologist Jane Goodall. The natural world is becoming increasingly threatened as we move into...

We are protecting wildlife at risk from poachers due to the conservation funding crisis caused by Covid-19. Help is desperately needed to support wildlife rangers, local...

The pandemic has revealed the truth about Thailand’s unsustainable and exploitative elephant tourism sector — and a chance to rethink the relationship between humans and...

The nature charity WWF provides lobbying and practical help for the trophy hunting of wild animals, a former campaign staffer has disclosed in a book. The Worldwide Fund for...

Botswana’s government is yet to test the remains of the dead animals in what has been described as a ‘conservation disaster’ More than 350 elephants have died in...

Three-quarters of new and emerging infectious diseases in humans originate in wildlife. COVID-19, SARS and Ebola all started this way. The COVID-19 global pandemic has drawn...

Johannesburg - The government has proposed changes to South Africa’s meat safety legislation, suggesting that threatened species such as rhinos, elephants and giraffes end up on...

South African proposal to breed wildlife for slaughter courts disaster The proposed Meat Safety Act will see more wild animals landing on dinner plates. GettyImages Chris Alden,...

It’s hard to love vultures. Their bare-headed appearance, scavenging habits and reputation as the refuse disposal workers of the bird world rarely endear them to a public who...

The thing with keeping wildlife in cages is that it almost always turns around to bite you in the behind. The current global pandemic is case-in-point and going forward, a new...

The Kruger National Park is being encircled by a ring of human hunger triggered in part by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Mozambican and Zimbabwean regions that border the park on...

South African traders with China are illegally selling thousands of wild animals threatened with extinction and endangered, under the guise of legal exports, according...

Throughout their range leopards are in rapid decline, having disappeared from North Africa, much of the Middle East and Asia. Declines have been so severe that the species...

DA spokesperson on Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs, Heinz de Boer, has called for an urgent portfolio committee investigation into the state of affairs at...

Netflix's "Tiger King" makes for good television drama but it fails miserably in exposing the truth about captive tigers and other animals in captivity. Netflix’s “Tiger King”...

Captive lions in South Africa could face starvation or euthanization as tourist revenues disappear amid the COVD-19 pandemic, according to animal welfare groups.Conservationists...

COVID-19 is one of countless emerging infectious diseases that are zoonotic, meaning they originate in animals. About 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic,...

South Africa is replicating China’s policies that resulted in the Covid-19 outbreak, including mandates promoting domesticating and breeding wild species. South Africa’s captive...

China’s latest ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals will wipe out wet markets, but they are just the tip of the icebergTo avoid simply driving the problem...

Despite a scientific consensus pointing to China’s wildlife trade as the most likely cause of the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s Government is currently touting a treatment...

South Africa is turning towards the implementation of new laws that fully allows the economic exploitation of wildlife. The intention is to market the use of all kinds of wild...

When Botswana banned hunting in 2014, proponents of ‘sustainable utilisation’ of wildlife claimed the government was pandering to emotions and ignoring science. The decision,...

The flip side to Covid-19 is first the understanding that we are not invincible and are just another species on this planet. That the world is round and a crisis in one place can...

A refugee is by definition a human—but should elephants and other animals qualify, too? Consider what life is like for so many African elephants: family and friends killed,...

Peacocks, porcupines and pangolins among species bred on 20,000 farms closed in wake of virus Nearly 20,000 wildlife farms raising species including peacocks, civet cats,...

A coalition of 35 conservation organizations, in a letter to the Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA), requests the removal of Dries van Coller, president of the...

China today announced a ban on buying and selling wild animals for food, taking its most decisive action yet to halt a trade that has been implicated in the global coronavirus...

GENEVA — Giraffes may well tower over all other animals in the natural world — but in the wild, their numbers are rapidly dwindling, and they are desperately in need of...

As the death toll climbs in the China pandemic, researchers reveal new origins for the coronavirus in Earth’s most threatened mammal. The deadly novel coronavirus pandemic has...

In a world where global understanding of true conservation and the interconnectedness of all life on the planet is growing at an exponential rate, Botswana cannot afford to be...

TheGovernmentGazette No.42464 dated 17 May 2019 amended Table 7 of the Animal Improvement Act (Act no.62of 1998), which lists breeds of animals, to include at least 32 new wild...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities temporarily banned the trade of wild animals Sunday following a viral outbreak in Wuhan, saying they will “severely investigate and punish”...

Trophy hunting is reinforcing deep apartheid-era social and racial inequalities in Africa, an economist will tell the UK government this week as it...

The concept of carrying capacity gets thrown around a lot when countries and parks complain about having too many elephants. However, carrying capacity has no relevance in highly...

Eleven elephants were successfully transferred from Blaauwbosch Private Game Reserve to their new home near Makhanda on Thursday. After being darted and loaded at Blaauwbosch,...