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World Elephant Day Photo Competition Winners
In the build up to this day, Conservation Action Trust, Wilderness Safaris and Africa Geographic...
US Upholds Ban on Elephant Trophies from Rogue States
The US government has upheld its earlier ban on the importation of elephant trophies from Tanzania...
Officials on the horns of a dilemma
The conservation of wild animals is a wrangle that has divided opinion into two diametrically...
Elephant poachers penetrate South African borders again
A second elephant has been butchered for its tusks by poachers in Parfuri, northern Kruger...
Rhino Trade Panel: Window dressing by the DEA
The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has finally issued an invitation to stakeholders to...
Desert elephant controversy reignited after hunter trampled
The trampling of a Namibian trophy hunter by an elephant has reignited the heated debate around...
Call for trade embargo against Mozambique for failure to address poaching issues
Two international environmental organisations have called on the US government to implement trade...
Are rhinos now a liability to South Africa?
I have recently read the May/June South African Journal of Science report on a Kruger National...
More desert elephants to be shot
Namibia: Concerns have been heightened by the Namibian Ministy of Environment and Tourism’s (MET)...
Regardless of resistance, SA will still trade horns
The South African Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has been having a difficult time of...
Egg-dancing on a bloodied horn
In debates about whether or not to lift the ban on trade in rhino horn, the real puzzle is the...
Farming: Lethal vs non-lethal control – the economic comparison
Guardian animals offer far better livestock protection than lethal methods, according to new...
Controversy grows as first desert elephant shot
With the world still reeling from the tragic poaching death of Satao, the iconic Kenyan tusker,...
Banning the sale of ivory in the USA: A Moral Dilemma
A moral dilemma has emerged following an online debate to an article in Forbes Magazine discussing...
High-level report calls SA wildlife trade policy reckless
TWO top international economists say those who advocate trade in rhino horn and ivory fail to...
Leonardo’s sailors: Seeking new solutions to SA’s rhino poaching crisis
It was Leonardo da Vinci, the great Renaissance-era mathematician, architect and artist, who said:...
Hunting desert elephants for meat raises a storm – and denials
To see the desert-adapted elephants of Namibia's north-eastern Kunene region, you have to travel...
Ruvuma’s success points way to battle the poaching scourge
A community elephant project in Tanzania has reduced elephant poaching numbers by more than half...