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What is the wildlife trade? And what are the answers to managing it?
The legal global wildlife trade is worth roughly $300 billion. Of more than 31,500...
Wildlife trade: The unsustainability of ‘sustainable use’ (Part 1)
‘Sustainable use’ ideology ignores the complexity of ecological systems and the impact of repeated...
In urgent need of an environmental ethic
If anything has become patently clear from the Covid-19 pandemic it is that we need to change the...
Living with wild animals (Part Two): Eat them like there’s no tomorrow
As the world staggers under the catastrophic impact of eating a wild animal, probably a pangolin,...
Elephant Hunts for Sale During a Pandemic
Botswana hides behind national “sovereignty” while selling off its natural heritage to foreign...
Living with wild animals, Part One: Cash cows or fellow beings?
The world is witnessing an unprecedented, human-induced collapse of biodiversity and is in the...
Animals starved to death in Bloemfontein Zoo
SPCA calls for permanent closure of Bloemfontein Zoo after discovering starving animals At least...
Botswana government won’t let the truth get in the way of its trophy hunting narrative
Symptomatic of the Botswana government’s shaky relationship with reality is its letter to the...
There are less harmful ways of ensuring people and elephants can live together
Irked by widespread local and international opposition to its decision to reopen elephant trophy...
Conservationist killed by elephants in KwaZulu-Natal, but family pleads with authorities to spare herd
Beyers Coetzee had a dream to see the elephants of Mawana Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal live out...
China’s ban on wildlife consumption is an overdue death knell for lion bone industry
The Chinese government yesterday placed an immediate ban on the illegal trading of wildlife and...
Botswana auctions off the last of its big tusker elephants
The Botswana government has again demonstrated to the world that it either does not understand or...
Hunting auction: Botswana government rides roughshod over conservationists
The Botswana government has auctioned off the last of its big tuskers to hunters despite offers...
Botswana: Raffled Elephant Hunts Backfire on Community – Conservationists
Cape Town — Unethical hunting has exposed a community to dangerous, aggressive elephants...
Government ignored its own science task team by redefining 32 wild species as farm animals
In listing 32 wild animal species as farm animals under the Animal Improvement Act in 2019, the...
UK must ban trophy hunting imports
The evidence suggests that ethical, economic and ecological problems with trophy hunting warrant a...
Headless sharks, scarce great whites and the danger of fish and chips Down Under
It was a bizarre and disturbing sight. About 100 sharks – beheaded, finned and gutted – dumped on...
South Africa’s legal lion bone trade exploited by criminals
Through what appear to be wilfully ignorant policies, South Africa is facilitating the illegal...