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Hand over your lion bone stockpiles for destruction, minister tells breeders
It’s been a long and winding road to ending captive lion breeding — and it begins with bones....
Wild Assertions: Why a legal trade in rhino horn won’t work
Momentum seems to be growing for re-opening an international trade in rhino horn, congruent with...
Eating elephants and the assault on our waning wildlife
Our relationship with the wild animals on our planet, whose numbers are rapidly declining, is...
South Africa exports millions of creatures great and small in shadowy global wildlife trade
Among the top three suppliers to the global wildlife market, South African breeders and exporters...
Namibia: Are Politics and Profit Behind Plans to Cull Elephant
The decisions made by the Namibian and Zimbabwean governments to slaughter hundreds of elephants...
Why we should burn the ivory
Demand reduction campaigns can reduce prices, resulting in a decrease in elephant poaching Between...
How frightful failures and feuding set up KZN elephant herd for destruction
Questions have been raised over why nine elephants including a pregnant cow and calves, were shot...
What the welfare? When industry interest trumps wellbeing
A disturbing challenge has been launched by trophy hunters in the Constitutional Court objecting...
Namibia: Why Is Namibia Going to Kill its Endangered Desert Elephants?
Namibia intends to "cull" 21 elephants in the dry north-west of the country where a small...
Botswana: Sharp Spike in Elephant Poaching – ‘Someone is Dropping the Ball Here’
There has been a dramatic increase in elephant poaching in northern Botswana, with little official...
Killing of five elephants, said to be ‘super-tuskers’ from Kenya’s Amboseli, sparks major row
Given how few big tuskers are left in the world (some estimates suggest fewer than 50), the...
The myth of “Too Many Elephants”
If you’ve had a conversation with anyone recently returned from the Kruger National Park (KNP),...
South Africa’s contradictory plan to open rhino horn trade will encourage poaching
Legalising trade will remove the stigma that rhino horn is illegal and could entice many more...
Botswana: Masisi’s Threat to Send 30,000 Elephants At Odds With Trophy Hunting Threat to Elephants, and People
Botswana has threatened to send 10,000 elephants to the UK and another 20,000 to Germany as UK and...
The Billion Dollar Ivory Illusion
Southern African nations are at it again. Nyasha Chingono reported in late May that those “hosting...
A disturbing journey into the human psyche and trophy hunting
Photographer and artist Roger Ballen’s latest exhibition The End of the Game is an immensely...
Elephant poaching in Africa is on the decline — but there’s no room for complacency
The wave of elephant poaching over the past two decades appears to have substantially subsided...
Biodiversity Bill – a high-water mark for the environment and Minister Barbara Creecy
If Barbara Creecy loses her position as the minister of forestry, fisheries and the environment...