PREAMBLE For more than a decade, South Africa has been actively supporting and growing the international trade in big cat bones, despite local and international outrage and...
THE EXTINCTION BUSINESS South Africa’s ‘Lion’ Bone Trade
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SA plans for 2019 lion bone export quota a ‘big middle finger to conservation’
The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries’ determination to set yet another export quota for lion bones flies in the face of several ongoing processes ...
Big-game hunting group ‘using influence on conservation watchdogs to undermine protections for endangered animals’
Exclusive: Organisation has been heavily involved in Cites and IUCN for up to 20 years, winning campaigns to allow African lions and other species to still be killed. Trophy...
Trophy Hunting, Part One: The nasty colonial sport of shooting wild animals
A male white lion, part of a rare white lion pack, in the wild in South Africa. (PHOTO: EPA/LIESL EICHENBERGER) Trophy hunting has historically been the preserve of...
Dereck Joubert sets the record straight about trophy hunting impact on lions and refutes claims of so-called benefits
© Dereck and Beverly Big Cat Conservation Opinion post by Dereck Joubert I’ve been asked to respond to the following remarks that came up in a discussion following the...
OP-ED: Lion bones and predator farming – picking on the carcass of SA tourism
Predator breeding using lions and other species could cost South Africa over R54-billion over the next 10 years in loss of tourism brand attractiveness. This is according to a...
Big cats worldwide threatened by SA lion bone trade
Cape Town - Asian demand for tiger wine and other products is creating a crisis for big cats across the world, according to a study just released by the Environmental...
Op-Ed: Molewa’s lion bone quota sends the wrong conservation message
The Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, has permitted an annual sale of 800 skeletons of captive-bred lions. Conservation organisations say the quota has been...
What is the Real Reason Behind Bubye’s Proposed Lion Cull?
Recent reports say that one of Zimbabwe’s largest private wildlife areas, Bubye Valley Conservancy, is suffering from an overpopulation of lions. The conservancy has more than...
Hunters: Killers or saviours?
The oft asked question is: are trophy hunters protectors of biodiversity or are they heartless killers of defenceless wild animals? To make any headway with this question, we...
Proof Trophy Hunters Don’t Save A Single Animal
Are trophy hunters protectors of biodiversity, as hunting associations and some conservationists claim, providing funds and a reason to protect wild areas? Or are they heartless...
Hunters Bagged 10,000 Lions in Africa Since 2003, Trophy Data Show
Given that in Africa wild lions are in catastrophic decline–the latest International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) figures suggest that fewer than 20,000 remain–it...
Trophy hunting fuels Asian lion bone trade
New research suggests things are getting worse for South Africa’s declining wild lion population as the trophy hunting industry is boosting the Asian trade in lion bones. Tiger...
Playing with words while captive lions die
In an article published in the Sunday Times a week ago [May 31], Edna Molewa, the minister of environmental affairs, admonishes conservationists to “put the lid on” what she...
Europeans opposed to canned hunting explore ways of banning trophies from SA
Conservationist Ian Michler met European lawyers, politicians, NGOs and the media this month to discuss ways of introducing a ban on the importation of canned lion hunting...