Officials on the horns of a dilemma
The conservation of wild animals is a wrangle that has divided opinion into two diametrically opposed camps, writes Adam Cruise. As today is World Nature Conservation Day, it is fitting to bring up the...
View ArticleLegalizing Rhino Horn Trade Won’t Save Species, Ecologist Argues
Southern white rhinos could go extinct in the wild in less than 20 years. Conservation efforts saved the species from an earlier brush with extinction. There were no more than 50 white rhinos in South...
View ArticleNatural born hunters?
There’s a huge difference between killing an animal for sustenance or subsistence, and hunting it for a trophy or for ‘sport’ (show me the sportsperson who would willingly agree to any contest in which...
View ArticleOfficials on the horns of a dilemma
The conservation of wild animals is a wrangle that has divided opinion into two diametrically opposed camps, writes Adam Cruise. As today is World Nature Conservation Day, it is fitting to bring up the...
View ArticleLegalizing Rhino Horn Trade Won’t Save Species, Ecologist Argues
Southern white rhinos could go extinct in the wild in less than 20 years. Conservation efforts saved the species from an earlier brush with extinction. There were no more than 50 white rhinos in South...
View ArticleNatural born hunters?
There’s a huge difference between killing an animal for sustenance or subsistence, and hunting it for a trophy or for ‘sport’ (show me the sportsperson who would willingly agree to any contest in which...
View ArticleIs transformation only possible through a consumptive wildlife economy?
Image: istock Parliamentary wildlife colloquium ignores benefits of non-consumptive wildlife utilisation as ecological sustainability is obscured by the increasing commodification of SA’s wildlife...
View ArticleOfficials on the horns of a dilemma
The conservation of wild animals is a wrangle that has divided opinion into two diametrically opposed camps, writes Adam Cruise. As today is World Nature Conservation Day, it is fitting to bring up the...
View ArticleLegalizing Rhino Horn Trade Won’t Save Species, Ecologist Argues
Southern white rhinos could go extinct in the wild in less than 20 years. Conservation efforts saved the species from an earlier brush with extinction. There were no more than 50 white rhinos in South...
View ArticleNatural born hunters?
There’s a huge difference between killing an animal for sustenance or subsistence, and hunting it for a trophy or for ‘sport’ (show me the sportsperson who would willingly agree to any contest in which...
View ArticleGovernment kicks the can forward yet again as the fate of thousands of lions...
Two lionesses rub against a cage fence at a captive breeding centre for large predators at an undisclosed location in South Africa’s Free State Province in an undated picture released 16 November 2005...
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