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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Video Shows Traumatized Elephants at Johannesburg Zoo 5 years, 4 months ago
Written by Louzel Lombard Steyn
Lammie the elephant’s 40th birthday celebrations and World Elephant Day at Johannesburg Zoo were marred by scenes of highly stressed elephants.
In a viral video shared on […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, The Great Elephant Debate: Myth-Busting Jumbo Fallacies 5 years, 4 months ago
Written by Ross Harvey
Botswana, as is now clearly documented in peer-reviewed literature, has an elephant poaching problem, not an overpopulation problem. Between 2014 and 2018, the population has remained […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Trophy Hunting ‘Imperialistic’ and ‘Unsustainable’ 5 years, 5 months ago
Written by Ross Harvey
Trophy hunting elephants has negative consequences for conservation and local communities.
A colonial attitude remains pervasive among those who defend the trophy hunting of elephants. […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, South Africa's 2019 Lion Bone Export Quota a ‘Big Middle Finger to Conservation’ 5 years, 5 months ago
Written by Louzel Lombard Steyn
South Africa’s Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) is determined to set yet another export quota for lion bones. This flies in the face of several ongoing […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Botswana’s Elephants: Myths vs. Facts 5 years, 6 months ago
Botswana’s president, Dr. Mokgweetsi Masisi, recently hosted a summit in Kasane, Botswana for five southern African heads of state to forge a common regional elephant conservation policy. Masisi’s administration […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Johannesburg Zoo To Get Second Elephant In Spite Of Public Outcry 5 years, 7 months ago
Written by Louzel Lombard Steyn
‘Lonely Lammie’ has become the poster animal of South Africa’s struggling captive animals since the death of her partner Kinkel in September last year. Experts argue that bringi […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Saving Giraffes is a Tall Order 5 years, 7 months ago
Written by Andreas Wilson-Spath
Will giraffes survive humanity? They are as iconic as lions, rhinos and elephants, and their long-term existence in the wild is under a similar threat. However, the world’s t […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, US Poll Says ‘No’ to Botswana Plans to Hunt and Cull Elephants 5 years, 8 months ago
Written by Don Pinnock
As the Botswana government rumbles towards lifting the ban on hunting its famous wildlife, an authoritative poll in the United States, the country from which the second greatest number of […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Young Elephant Shot 13 Times as Tourists Watched in Horror 5 years, 8 months ago
Written by Louzel Lombard Steyn
Balule Associated Nature Reserve has justified the killing of a young elephant bull in front of tourists as an “act of self-defense,” ignoring eye-witness accounts and […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Where Wild Things are Under Threat, Wildlife Trade is an Urgent Issue 5 years, 9 months ago
Before more exploitation of the natural world is proposed as a way to solve rural poverty in developing African countries, we need to interrogate the nature of corrupt and damaging financial relationships between […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Zambia Forges Ahead With Hippo Cull Despite Global Backlash 5 years, 10 months ago
South African hunting outfitters are eagerly awaiting the end of the Zambian rainy season in April to start a killing spree of up to 1,250 hippopotamuses living in the world-renowned Luangwa Valley.
The […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Does Trophy Hunting in South Africa Really Benefit Conservation and Local Communities? 5 years, 10 months ago
Every year, thousands of tourists visit South African private nature reserves to see wild animals in unspoiled surroundings. But how many of these travelers know that some of the most luxurious safari destinations […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Pangolins in Peril 5 years, 10 months ago
Written by Harriet Nimmo
Slowly, the tiny ball in the wooden crate began to unwind. His scales moved and a pointy nose followed by two black button eyes emerged. Natalie was entranced. The baby pangolin […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Zoos Need a Radical Rethink: A Plea for Johannesburg's Lammie the Elephant 5 years, 10 months ago
Written by Don Pinnock
We need to talk about the future of zoos. There are about 1,500 formal and many more informal zoos in the world, holding between three and four million undomesticated, non-human […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, No Bright Future for Wildlife with Ineffective CITES in Charge? 5 years, 11 months ago
Written by Dr. Lynn Johnson
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the United Nations organization that regulates wildlife trade, meets in Sri Lanka in May […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Johannesburg Zoo Ignores Calls to Free Lammie the Lonely Elephant 6 years ago
Johannesburg Zoo, in Johannesburg, South Africa, refuses to consider releasing Lammie the elephant. This is despite animal welfare specialists’ renewed calls to the Johannesburg City Council to relocate the g […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Why won't South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs stand up for rhinos? 6 years, 1 month ago
South Africa is playing a dangerous double game with rhinos, and it’s time to ask why. The South African Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) doesn’t appear to have a clue how to save these animals from imp […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, CITES lets world’s worst elephant poaching countries off the hook 6 years, 2 months ago
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, China, Thailand and the Philippines, some of the world’s worst countries for elephant poaching and illegal trade in ivory, have been allowed to exit a key international initiative set up t […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Botswana’s elephant poaching crisis under scrutiny 6 years, 2 months ago
Reports of elephant poaching in Botswana are under the spotlight, with various sources in national and international media claiming that the current adverse situation is driven by anti-poaching budget cuts, […]
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Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, South Africa reopens leopard hunting season after two year break 6 years, 3 months ago
After two years of grace, South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has given permission to shoot two leopards in KwaZulu-Natal and five in Limpopo Province. The leopards must be males of seven […]
