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South Africa traffics thousands of endangered wild animals to China in ‘corrupt and growing’ trade, investigation finds
South African traders with China are illegally selling thousands of wild animals...
Exploitation changes leopard behaviour with long-term genetic costs
Throughout their range leopards are in rapid decline, having disappeared from North Africa,...
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MISSING SIX HOURS? KWAZULU NATAL WILDLIFE AUTHORITY UNDER FIRE FOR KILLING A LONE ELEPHANT BULL.
DA spokesperson on Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs, Heinz de Boer, has...
‘TIGER KING’ AND THE TRUTH ABOUT CAPTIVE TIGERS
Netflix's "Tiger King" makes for good television drama but it fails miserably in exposing the...
Coronavirus is a crisis for South Africa’s captive lions, campaigners warn
Captive lions in South Africa could face starvation or euthanization as tourist revenues disappear...
Coronavirus: WHO urges China to close ‘dangerous’ wet market as stalls in Wuhan begin to reopen
'75 per cent of emerging infections come from the animal kingdom... It’s partly the...
The new coronavirus emerged from the global wildlife trade – and may be devastating enough to end it
COVID-19 is one of countless emerging infectious diseases that are zoonotic, meaning they...
The captive lion breeding industry puts conservation and public health at risk
South Africa is replicating China’s policies that resulted in the Covid-19 outbreak, including...
China’s coronavirus battle may be ending but its war on eating wild animals has just begun
China’s latest ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals will wipe out wet markets, but...
Unbelievable: Chinese Gov’t recommends injections containing bear bile to treat coronavirus
Despite a scientific consensus pointing to China’s wildlife trade as the most likely cause of the...
South Africa wants to promote wildlife consumption
South Africa is turning towards the implementation of new laws that fully allows the economic...
Scales tip in favour of pangolins as hosts of Coronavirus ‘transition’
As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads its tentacles across all continents except Antarctica, scientists...
Botswana’s conservation policies driven by profit, not science
When Botswana banned hunting in 2014, proponents of ‘sustainable utilisation’ of wildlife claimed...
Covid-19: Planet Earth fights back
The flip side to Covid-19 is first the understanding that we are not invincible and are just...
Should elephants be considered refugees?
A refugee is by definition a human—but should elephants and other animals qualify, too? Consider...
Coronavirus closures reveal vast scale of China’s secretive wildlife farm industry
Peacocks, porcupines and pangolins among species bred on 20,000 farms closed in wake of virus...
Canned lions: Remove van Coller from TBCSA board
A coalition of 35 conservation organizations, in a letter to the Tourism Business Council of South...
As coronavirus spreads, China bans trade in wild animals for food
China today announced a ban on buying and selling wild animals for food, taking its most decisive...