It should come as no surprise that humans’ feelings about an animal can determine how protected it is. Foregrounding heartstring-tugging flagship species therefore makes conservation sense for whole ecosystems
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By Lorato Palesa Modongo “Come Kitty. We want to empower you. No, your mother cannot do this. Your government cannot do this. Time cannot do…
Before I kick-off with this, let me state upfront so nobody can miss it: lion breeding in South Africa should be banned. The hunting of…
All of us have that button. That thing that makes us see red, the thing we hate, which if we were in charge we’d ban…
Recently in Zimbabwe while the country was preoccupied with its general elections, the press almost completely ignored a catastrophic chemical poisoning of animals. Ivory poachers…
I recently travelled to the picturesque town of Hamilton, New Zealand, through which the ethereally beautiful Waikato River courses, a body of water deemed sacred…
By Emma Ruby-Sachs This year the poaching of more than 430 rhinos in South Africa has rightly dominated the news. The massacre of these animals…
Developing nations don’t hold much truck with wildlife conservation for sentimental or scientific reasons. In places where human existence itself can be nasty, brutal and…
Many of us are thinking about the changes we want to make this year. For some, these changes will be financial; for others, physical or…