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SA at a crossroads on wildlife welfare and sentience
Two government approaches to our relationship with wild animals, two opposing views. One could...
Canned hunting canned: Minister Creecy announces ‘new deal’ for South Africa’s wildlife industry
In a seismic shift that will send shock waves through many areas of SA’s wildlife industry, the...
Southern Africa’s Ivory Delusion
The values of Zimbabwe’s and Namibia’s ivory stockpiles have been grossly overstated, and their...
Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries blows nearly R3bn in irregular expenditure
The Auditor-General’s annual review of the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries’...
Something to hide? Department of Environment takes the path of least disclosure
Wildlife and weaponised disinformation: the path of least disclosure There can be no...
Breeding and trading endangered wild animals is not conservation – it threatens their survival
Conservationists have demonstrated that legalised trade and commercial breeding of wild animals...
No shade, no company, no exercise – that’s no life for sad elephant Charlie
Specialists from around the world have petitioned Environment Minister Barbara Creecy to release...
Namibia selling 170 wild elephants despite outcry
The Namibian government will put 170 wild elephants up for sale on 29 January, justified by false...
Paradise is closing down: The ghastly spectre of oil drilling and fracking in fragile Okavango Delta
For a distance of some 150km, Canadian company ReconAfrica’s oil and gas prospecting concessions...
Ex-volunteers expose cruelty in the name of big-cat conservation
Two women thought they were helping by hand-rearing cubs, until they learnt some sinister truths....
Are we starving great whites to death?
Ever since the film ‘Jaws’, with its creepy music, sharks have had bad press as nightmarish...
NSPCA slams ‘slap on the wrist’ sentence for Dr convicted of amputating monkey’s limbs
The light sentence handed out to the vet who mutilated a monkey is a travesty of justice says the...
Redefining the right of the NSPCA to prosecute for cruelty
In November 2010, two men in Lenasia attempted to kill two camels as part of an Islamic ritual....
Namibia To Sell Wild Elephants
Plans by the Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) to capture and sell off...
Unregulated international trade in reptiles threatens South Africa’s vulnerable species
The majority of South Africa’s snakes that are exported are wild-sourced and, along with most...
Captive lion breeding damages SA’s tourism reputation
Despite overwhelming worldwide opposition, including a parliamentary resolution to close down the...
The sad story of a one-limbed monkey and the battle to hold vets accountable
A vet has been found guilty of extreme cruelty to a vervet monkey and awaits sentencing in the...
It’s high time SA shut down the captive lion breeding industry
Will the government and its high-level panel finally accept the overwhelming evidence that captive...