Photo: Francis Garrard The Joburg Zoo continues to make unilateral decisions regarding Lammie the elephant’s future while the DA led City council turns a blind eye. The zoo...
Joburg Zoo To Get Second Elephant In Spite Of Public Outcry
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The Sad Story of Lammie the Solitary Elephant at Johannesburg Zoo: Factsheet
Lammie’s mother, Dolly, was captured from the wild in Botswana aged about 3 and arrived at the zoo in 1966. She was euthanised in 2000, aged about 37, when during what should...
Time to end lion bone trade
A DAMNING report on South Africa’s lion bone trade has called for the end of the trade, a forensic investigation into the affairs of lion breeders and a restriction on the...
Dodgy skeleton traders and lion slaughterhouses exposed in damning report
The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has increased South Africa’s lion bone export quota from 800 to 1,500 a year, despite being aware that some skeletons are being...
The Extinction Business – South Africa’s ‘Lion’ Bone Trade
This Report examines and investigates substantial problems and endemic loopholes in the CITES permitting, enforcement and oversight system. It further demonstrates the failings...
Facilities (farms and individuals) keeping and breeding Asian big cats in captivity in South Africa: Under decision 17.229
David H.W. Morgan Chief, Governing Bodies and Meeting Services CITES Secretariat c/o Pascal Perraud (pascal.perraud@cites.org 28 February 2018 FACILITIES (FARMS AND INDIVIDUALS)...