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OF PROFITS AND POWER: official collusion in Northern Mozambique’s ivory poaching
Two hundred metres from Pemba’s popular Wimbi Beach towers an opulent mansion. Initially it could...
Rhino horn trade debate will fuel poaching
Rhino horn trade debate will fuel poaching: By working on a proposal to CITES to legalise trade in...
The efficacy of trading rhino horn debunked
A group of local and international experts converged in Cape Town on Tuesday to discuss the legal...
New government plan promotes canned lion hunting and trade
The draft Biodiversity Management Plan for the Lion (Panthera Leo) in South Africa was published...
Is SA Seeking to Downlist Lions in Order to Trade Lion Bones?
South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs has released for public comment its first-ever...
Greed drives elephant trade
Zimbabwe’s minister for environment, water and climate, Saviour Kasukuwere, claims Zimbabwe’s...
Conservation’s biggest con job
South Africa’s lion hunting industry has little to do with conservation and everything to do with...
Australia bans importation of Lion trophies
Australia’s Minister for the Environment has banned the importation of lion parts and remains into...
China and Thailand: Size matters, especially in illegal ivory trade
Once upon a time, a fair prince traveled to a distant land – of Dragons and Emperors but equally,...
Murder added to Namibian man’s poaching rap
WINDHOEK chiropractor Gerson Kandjii, already facing criminal charges related to the poaching of...
Mozambique and South Africa drag their feet over rhinos
In April last year South Africa signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with...
Documenting the demise of Africa’s elephants
More than 53,000 elephants have been massacred in the last decade in Tanzania’s Selous game...
Zimbabwe Hunting Revenue down 30% thanks to US ban… or is it?
Zimbabwe recorded a 30% decline in revenue from sport hunting since the United States banned all...
The fight to save SA’s rhinos: What the Minister didn’t say
When listening to Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa discuss tackling the scourge of...
Kunene rhino deaths: Symptomatic of Namibia’s bigger problem
The Save the Rhino Trust (SRT) has launched an internal investigation after the Board was...
Wandering elephants headed home
Conservation officials have been working feverishly with farmers and concerned members of the...
The plight of Zim’s 36 baby elephants
Late last year, dozens of baby elephants in the Hwange Elephant Park were forcibly removed from...
Setback in battle to save wandering elephant bulls
Efforts to relocate two elephants which crossed the border from Botswana into Limpopo province...