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Their Future Is Dark. The Rhino Horn Trade in 2019
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Molewa outlines plans to sell rhino horn and wildlife
OPINION: Rhino - a commodity for sale? South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs is increasingly seeing wildlife as a commodity to be marketed rather than protected and...
Don’t get us wrong about rhinos says Environmental Affairs
Author: Don Pinnock The DEA is concerned that we’re getting it wrong about the legalization of domestic rhino horn trade. But it is they who are getting it wrong about the...
How SA can lose the second rhino war
As South Africa continues to lose rhinos in the poaching war, it seems that the government is failing those fighting it. Although there has been some success in protecting rhinos...
FAILURE TO PROSECUTE AND MIXED MESSAGES: How South Africa can single-handedly lose the second rhino war – Report
RECOMMENDATIONS SOUTH AFRICA SHOULD APPOINT A SPECIAL COURT TO DEAL WITH ALL RHINO HORN CASES SOUTH AFRICA SHOULD VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTE MIDDLEMEN AND KINGPINS SOUTH AFRICA SHOULD...
FAILURE TO PROSECUTE AND MIXED MESSAGES: How South Africa can single-handedly lose the second rhino war – Summary of Findings
KEY FINDINGS & RECOMMENDATIONS KEY REPORT FINDINGS Lack of prosecutions • South Africa’s rhino crisis has been “stimulated by organized crime” and...
Draft Regulations on Rhino Trade
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS NOTICE 74 OF 2017 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: BIODIVERSITY ACT 2004 (ACTO NO. 10 OF 2004) DRAFT REGULATIONS FOR THE DOMESTIC TRADE IN...
South Africa opens the door to the sale of wildlife parts
Photo by Don Pinnock. There’s a thin line between the marketing of, and the genuine conservation of, wildlife. In the past few weeks that line was definitively crossed by the...
Calling out Ivo Vegter’s fractious fulminations
Ivo Vegter passes himself off as an environmental journalist, but consistently backs the right of those with money and power to destroy the environment. I have no other choice...
DEA Draft Statement – Chair of the Committee of Inquiry feedback
The Committee of Inquiry was tasked with investigating the feasibility of a trade in rhino horn. Minister of Environmental Affairs, Members of the media, Thank you for the...
DEA Minister Statement – Committee of Inquiry into the feasibility of a legal trade in rhino horn, or not
STATEMENT: Ladies and Gentlemen, You may recall that the Committee of Inquiry was established as South Africa was experiencing continuously increasing levels of poaching despite...
Swaziland accuses SA of backtracking on rhino horn trade
Swaziland conservation authorities have accused South Africa of reneging on an agreement to propose the legalization of rhino horn trade, which draws into question South Africa’s...
Will SA legalise rhino horn trade?
This week, investigative journalist and author Julian Rademeyer revealed that the decision to submit a rhino horn trade proposal to the Convention on International Trade in...
Rhino Poaching in South Africa Declining, But Still Too Soon to Celebrate
South Africa has announced its first decrease in rhino poaching since 2007: “We are pleased to announce that for the first time in a decade the poaching situation in South Africa...
Rhino horn trade central to draft government policy
A legal trade in rhino horns lies at the heart of a proposed new government policy for the conservation of white rhinos in South Africa, despite the fact that an official...
International Statement sent to the Committee of Inquiry into a Possible Trade in Rhino Horn
To: Ms. M.E. Nana Magomola, Chairperson, Committee of Inquiry Cc: Minister Edna Molewa, Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) All rhinoceros species are threatened by...