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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Breeding and Trading Endangered Wild Animals Is Not Conservation 3 years, 10 months ago
People involved in the commercial breeding and trade of wild animals would have us believe that they are conservationists, that their industry – a growing and increasingly influential player in South Africa – con […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Ex-Volunteers Expose Cruelty in the Name of Big Cat Conservation 3 years, 11 months ago
Thousands of lions, tigers, leopards and other species of big cats live out their lives in squalor, but a fortunate few have found sanctuary at Panthera Africa outside the quiet village of Stanford in South […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, It’s High Time South Africa Shut Down Its Captive Lion Breeding Industry 4 years, 1 month ago
Will the South African government and its high-level panel finally accept the overwhelming evidence that captive lion breeding should be stopped?
A small number of people breeding lions in captivity is holding […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Over 400 Elephants Perish in Botswana Mystery Mass Die-off 4 years, 5 months ago
The carcasses of more than 400 elephants have been discovered north of Botswana’s Okavango Delta and nobody yet knows what’s killing them. The government appears to be dragging its heels in pursuit of a […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Neoliberalism and Sustainable Use Are Cut From the Same Paradigm 4 years, 5 months ago
Where neoliberalism subjugates the natural world and people to the commercial whims of markets and globalization, sustainable use has ensured the international commercialization of biodiversity, and determined […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Living With Wild Animals, Part Two: Eat Them Like There’s No Tomorrow 4 years, 8 months ago
As the world staggers under the catastrophic impact of eating a wild animal, probably a pangolin, the South African government has reclassified 130 wild animals as meat. The next pandemic could be round the […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, There Are Less Harmful Ways to Help People and Elephants Coexist 4 years, 8 months ago
Irked by widespread local and international opposition to its decision to reopen elephant trophy hunting, the Botswanan government has become increasingly strident and populist in defense of its actions.
In […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Living With Wild Animals, Part One: Cash Cows or Fellow Beings? 4 years, 8 months ago
The world is witnessing an unprecedented, human-induced collapse of biodiversity and is in the middle of a global pandemic caused by the consumption of wild species often kept in cruel, unsanitary conditions. […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, China’s Ban on Wildlife Consumption is an Overdue Death Knell for Lion Bone Industry 4 years, 9 months ago
The Chinese government has placed an immediate ban on the illegal trading of wildlife and the consumption of wild animals. This follows a link between pangolin meat and the coronavirus outbreak.
Despite […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Botswana Auctions off the Last of Its Big Tusker Elephants 4 years, 10 months ago
Botswana’s government has again demonstrated to the world that it either does not understand or does not care that elephants play a critical role in maintaining healthy ecological systems, nor does it understand […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, UK Must Ban Trophy Hunting Imports 4 years, 10 months ago
On January 25th, 2020, the UK government closed its public consultation on whether to ban trophy imports into the country.
Trophy hunting is a deeply controversial topic and the consequences of ending the pr […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, South Africa's Legal Lion Bone Trade Exploited by Criminals 4 years, 11 months ago
Through what appear to be willfully ignorant policies, South Africa is facilitating illegal trade in lion bones. This is not only enabling the activities of notorious international crime syndicates, but also […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, No Place for Trophy Hunting in the Sixth Mass Extinction 4 years, 12 months ago
We are living in the sixth mass extinction. Birds are disappearing from North America, the Amazon is on fire and biodiversity is disappearing at a rapid rate. Droughts are becoming more frequent, extreme weathe […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, New Rules Change South Africa's Wildlife Interaction Industry 5 years ago
Interactions with all infant wildlife, walking with predators or elephants, interacting with predators and the riding of wild animals are no longer acceptable practices, according to the South African Tourism […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, South Africa Reclassifies 33 Wild Species as "Farm Animals" 5 years, 1 month ago
By the stroke of a legislative pen, a list of iconic and in some cases endangered wild animals can now be manipulated as farming stock. What happens next is anyone’s guess.
Lions, cheetahs, rhinos and zebras w […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Trophy Hunting: A New Front Opens in the War of Words 5 years, 1 month ago
Using the pages of one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, a group of authors have recently suggested that trophy hunting in Africa, while perhaps repugnant, is a necessary evil without which w […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Trophy Hunting is Not Sustainable 5 years, 2 months ago
A recent letter published in the journal Science argues that banning trophy hunting imperils biodiversity, which simply doesn’t stack up.
The letter’s authors present arguments which, in their opinions, of […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Elephants Taken Out of the Room 5 years, 2 months ago
The overwhelming conclusion of a captive elephant conference held in the South African town of Hermanus earlier this month was that no new elephants should be placed in captivity and elephants currently in […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Four African Nations Push for Trade in Endangered Wildlife 5 years, 3 months ago
The governments of South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Namibia and Zimbabwe are proposing measures which, if enacted, could open the door to international trade in elephant ivory, rhino horn […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, US to Support Zimbabwe’s Trade in Baby Elephants 5 years, 3 months ago
United States zoos now plan to import baby elephants from Zimbabwe, undeterred by the international uproar over their 2016 import of 18 wild elephants from Swaziland.
The US Association of Zoos and Aquariums […]
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