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Wildlife experts spurn invite to serve on environmental panel, indicating bias and co-option
Three people have declined to serve on a government panel. That’s not exactly news. But, given who...
Over 400 Botswana elephants killed in mystery mass die-off
The carcasses of more than 400 elephants have been discovered north of the Okavango Delta and...
‘Unfair Game’ reveals the cruel reality of canned lions
Almost without exception, every single captive-bred lion in South Africa faces a miserable fate –...
Are trophy hunters serial killers? Book review.
Supported by wealthy and powerful organisations like Safari Club International, the Dallas Safari...
The Breaking Point: Could this report spell the end of SA’s wildlife trade?
Much is being written about the trade of live wildlife for human consumption at wet markets around...
Why the wildlife trade convention failed to prevent Covid-19
It’s time to rethink the role of CITES, says its former head, John Scanlon. It has no teeth to...
Neoliberalism and sustainable use are cut from the same paradigm
Where neoliberalism subjugates the natural world and people to the commercial whims of markets and...
How overfishing is threatening SA’s shark eco-tourism industry
Experts say the government is ignoring science and dragging its feet in the face of a crisis....
Enabling the dealers in death
The legal trade in wild animals between SA and China is helping the illegal trade grow,...
Horrific scale of SA’s live wild animal trade to China exposed
Chimpanzees, Bengal tigers, wolves, wild dogs and lions are among thousands of endangered wild...
How the Coronavirus changes poaching strategies
Wild animals are back. Kangaroos bounding through the streets of Melbourne, elephant herds passing...
Is the environment minister captured by vested interests?
Everything a costly high-level panel appointed by the Department of Environmental Affairs is...
Why SA’s courts place ecological sustainability ahead of government’s reductionist sustainable use – Part 2
There are growing concerns around the South African government’s wildlife high-level advisory...
12 rangers from Virunga park killed while trying to save civilians from FDLR ambush
Twelve rangers and four civilians were killed late last week in the eastern Democratic Republic of...
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,...