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Could the COVID Crisis Provide an Opportunity for Thailand’s Captive Elephants?
The pandemic has revealed the truth about Thailand’s unsustainable and exploitative elephant...
WWF targeted over trophy hunts
The nature charity WWF provides lobbying and practical help for the trophy hunting of wild...
Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off
Botswana’s government is yet to test the remains of the dead animals in what has been described as...
Python skin jackets and elephant leather boots: How wealthy Western nations help drive the global wildlife trade
Three-quarters of new and emerging infectious diseases in humans originate in wildlife....
Govt proposal to add rhino, elephants to list of animals that can be slaughtered for consumption
Johannesburg - The government has proposed changes to South Africa’s meat safety legislation,...
South African proposal to breed wildlife for slaughter courts disaster The proposed Meat Safety...
The vultures aren’t hovering over Africa – and that’s bad news
It’s hard to love vultures. Their bare-headed appearance, scavenging habits and reputation as the...
Conservation Leaders Urge UN World Tourism Organisation: Curb Wildlife Exploitation
The thing with keeping wildlife in cages is that it almost always turns around to bite you in the...
The Trump Administration Is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List.
After three years in office, the Trump administration has dismantled most of the major climate and...
Wildlife at risk as hunger encircles Kruger Park
The Kruger National Park is being encircled by a ring of human hunger triggered in part by the...
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...