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Study reveals the true value of elephants
An assessment of the categories used in existing ecosystem valuation frameworks, incorporating our...
Canadian company exploring for oil in Namibia in battle for credibility
ReconAfrica, a start-up oil exploration company with interests in Namibia and Botswana, is...
As baboons and monkeys are slaughtered in Magaliesberg, we desperately need to find our humanity again
As you read this, global attention is on COP15, the world’s biodiversity conference in Montreal,...
EU moves get praise from telling factions at wildlife conference
The European Union has come under fire from wildlife charities, among others, for some of its...
Battle lines drawn over the future of elephants
Are elephants global treasures in urgent need of protection, or a commodity on the world market?...
Worried about elephant numbers? Quit counting them
That’s the advice of Professor Rob Slotow, who says protected areas need to be sufficiently...
Translocation of SA cheetahs to India — ‘there is going to be a lot of heartache and pain’
Some say sending African cheetahs to India is a brilliant idea, others insist it’s possible but...
Leopard study reveals staggering fact about wildlife trade body CITES
The global wildlife trading body urgently needs to review the assessments it uses to set leopard...
Those who kill animals in a church trophy hunt would do well to read the Green Bible
As an Afrikaner I understand the passion to hunt — it’s what we learnt at our father’s knee. But...
Killing for the House of Jesus — church trophy hunt raises a storm
The Schweizer-Reneke Afrikaanse Protestantse Kerk boosts funds by offering prizes for killing as...
South Africa’s new environmental policy – a positive shift or a licence to kill?
Our much-heralded new White Paper on Biodiversity establishes a much higher duty of care towards...
When will sustainable use activists admit that trophy hunting is destructive?
Another paper has come out highlighting the negative impacts of the trophy hunting but is being...
Creecy’s plan to save plummeting African penguin population is crucial — but it’s not urgent enough
We are urging the minister to immediately close the feeding grounds of South Africa’s African...
Africa: More than 150 vultures poisoned to death, seemingly for ‘muti’
Conservationists in South Africa have sounded the alarm about 150 endangered vultures found dead...
On World Elephant Day 2022, these endangered giants are facing a renewed ivory trade threat
Today (12 August) is World Elephant Day 2022 and, in a year full of important meetings likely to...
IUCN SULi is supporting a narrative-changing ‘hunter advocacy’ program
The Wild Harvest Initiative seeks to normalize hunting with the help of IUCN SULi and trophy...
US trophy hunter one of many spilling blood on “the dark continent”
Trophy hunting is still legal in South Africa, and people like Tom Miranda from the USA represents...
The Long Read: Fishing Industry Lobbies Against CITES Modernisation – Here’s Why
Over the last two years, Nature Needs More has continued to meet with politicians and government...