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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...
Outrage over ‘unethical’ Botswana elephant hunt
When President Mokgweetsi Masisi opened up Botswana’s rich wildlands to hunting, it helped gain...
No place for trophy hunting in the sixth extinction
For a Western hunter to pay to kill an African animal and expatriate its parts is a form of...
New ‘expert’ panel may be weighted to duck Parliament’s call to shut down canned hunting
In the matter of guarding the chicken run, there’s a big difference between giving the job to a...
Radical changes rattle the cage of SA’s wildlife interaction industry
Interactions with all infant wildlife, walking with predators or elephants, interacting with...
Trophy hunting of Elephants in Botswana has no place in conservation
Tony Weaver has defended Botswana President, Mokgweetsi Masisi, who decided to reintroduce trophy...
Trophy hunting: A new front opens in the War of Words
The trophy hunting lobby and its ideological hangers-on will do whatever they can to defend the...
Trophy hunting of elephants in Botswana has no place in conservation: A reply to Tony Weaver
Tony Weaver has defended Botswana’s decision to reintroduce trophy hunting. Personally, he doesn’t...