ANIMAL PEOPLE FORUM | Conservation Action Trust | Activity https://animalpeopleforum.org/members/catconservation/activity/ Activity feed for Conservation Action Trust. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:22:22 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f2a4ccabcfaf705499d04bd047997b1f Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Breeding and Trading Endangered Wild Animals Is Not Conservation https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=32586 Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:27:10 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 edd2b62d4940a14378b8b0334c9bc9ed Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Ex-Volunteers Expose Cruelty in the Name of Big Cat Conservation https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=32414 Sun, 27 Dec 2020 20:43:29 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 f259efbc7e1fc4b13450ff94ce505321 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, It’s High Time South Africa Shut Down Its Captive Lion Breeding Industry https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=32096 Thu, 05 Nov 2020 22:55:10 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 e60ab25c134502541effd471837afe55 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Over 400 Elephants Perish in Botswana Mystery Mass Die-off https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=30684 Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:47:26 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 301b4f32719e42bbd3820cb5e1bd9235 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Neoliberalism and Sustainable Use Are Cut From the Same Paradigm https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=30464 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:55:33 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 142395f85645d346832c7532e4f3d040 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Living With Wild Animals, Part Two: Eat Them Like There’s No Tomorrow https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29720 Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:17:45 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 59a335829c2c4fac28018f3fc5fb414f Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, There Are Less Harmful Ways to Help People and Elephants Coexist https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29652 Wed, 08 Apr 2020 17:56:47 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 5bd786ad76d3165ab7fd0fb473c9eadb Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Living With Wild Animals, Part One: Cash Cows or Fellow Beings? https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29569 Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:46:04 -0700 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. […]

]]> 0 4a1b811ef1a720f5d1c223b8878ee4ef Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, China’s Ban on Wildlife Consumption is an Overdue Death Knell for Lion Bone Industry https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29108 Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:47:35 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 175a1af8189e7ad9854c0c0e5d58e84f Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Botswana Auctions off the Last of Its Big Tusker Elephants https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=28981 Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:35:08 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 43afd2710159377ab942ac3ff2ab5576 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, UK Must Ban Trophy Hunting Imports https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=28679 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:18:38 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 52e6bb6993dca1cfd3063558ac3ad2d0 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, South Africa's Legal Lion Bone Trade Exploited by Criminals https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=28579 Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:01:05 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 338063c2fc9139280792856905758b42 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, No Place for Trophy Hunting in the Sixth Mass Extinction https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=28126 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 19:15:06 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 dba1f78247b23df57c8b82d9d66cea4f Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, New Rules Change South Africa's Wildlife Interaction Industry https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=27979 Wed, 11 Dec 2019 21:01:49 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 3ddef0ed73b1a60f5e53ad6295eb8961 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, South Africa Reclassifies 33 Wild Species as "Farm Animals" https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=27494 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:22:46 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 cdc7397675033236d0e8df1c0fdba034 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Trophy Hunting: A New Front Opens in the War of Words https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=27439 Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:41:27 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 3f74e77fe182537da4eae8e8f25da2e9 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Trophy Hunting is Not Sustainable https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=26960 Fri, 11 Oct 2019 17:15:11 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 a231e1eacc937d082307ca7a98088af3 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Elephants Taken Out of the Room https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=26780 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 21:06:15 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 b137726581b47752e986e54877371e9c Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Four African Nations Push for Trade in Endangered Wildlife https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=26418 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:18:01 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 0403f571aa4f523040b62376334c29ce Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, US to Support Zimbabwe’s Trade in Baby Elephants https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=26401 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 19:37:50 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 079ff1b53919e67fe082a0171a494ed0 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Video Shows Traumatized Elephants at Johannesburg Zoo https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=26350 Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:38:17 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 68803a5eca54b256b6d76909315a720d Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, The Great Elephant Debate: Myth-Busting Jumbo Fallacies https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=26014 Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:51:22 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 3376983784390c54a836615c707e821e Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Trophy Hunting ‘Imperialistic’ and ‘Unsustainable’ https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=25639 Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:56:15 -0700 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. […]

]]> 0 ed57fc56bf5b147917a8b6f19011c481 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, South Africa's 2019 Lion Bone Export Quota a ‘Big Middle Finger to Conservation’ https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=25589 Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:46:08 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 ff49c99ebfeac7200916452f1af12b0a Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Botswana’s Elephants: Myths vs. Facts https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=25341 Sat, 01 Jun 2019 15:06:27 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 e2f19da2e416bd7b304d633d2b56e872 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Johannesburg Zoo To Get Second Elephant In Spite Of Public Outcry https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=24807 Tue, 07 May 2019 16:47:27 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 cfa4ee681547953698b910ae21409a6e Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Saving Giraffes is a Tall Order https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=24695 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:53:43 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 58b25096a78e1987b9340245c04b39a2 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, US Poll Says ‘No’ to Botswana Plans to Hunt and Cull Elephants https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=24495 Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:02:41 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 6ebd66561784671bbeefe016d14769cc Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Young Elephant Shot 13 Times as Tourists Watched in Horror https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=24356 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:40:34 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 1be9c31ed7c16dda0647b74955c57b91 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Where Wild Things are Under Threat, Wildlife Trade is an Urgent Issue https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=23652 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:32:40 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 da08bb54ba2c573d39e4f24d12de528b Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Zambia Forges Ahead With Hippo Cull Despite Global Backlash https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=23584 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:11:36 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 aa94a65f522648a77227acd1b8a11f03 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Does Trophy Hunting in South Africa Really Benefit Conservation and Local Communities? https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=23411 Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:35:56 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 9fd27aef95e61320473c83990a72f924 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Pangolins in Peril https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=23313 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 20:15:15 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 4bfc4f6ad588b13cb2c35100d5221e3c Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Zoos Need a Radical Rethink: A Plea for Johannesburg's Lammie the Elephant https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=23176 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:20:53 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 45841c064c39e6ca40c271aea885540d Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, No Bright Future for Wildlife with Ineffective CITES in Charge? https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=23051 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 20:32:07 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 6c821805f87937303b59230dec28edab Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Johannesburg Zoo Ignores Calls to Free Lammie the Lonely Elephant https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=22214 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 21:46:54 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 1cde7789652f1eed458608b36bd26bd3 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Why won't South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs stand up for rhinos? https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=21527 Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:36:07 -0800 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 […]

]]> 0 d98febe45f946fa8ad1121d8e03d9886 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, CITES lets world’s worst elephant poaching countries off the hook http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=21065 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:01:44 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 16f4065e2c3442306cc777314be4fe94 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Botswana’s elephant poaching crisis under scrutiny http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=20615 Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:07:56 -0700 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, […]

]]> 0 205e2d4006c5ee09e82d959172dd27f0 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, South Africa reopens leopard hunting season after two year break http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=19538 Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:08:50 -0700 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 […]

]]> 0 731406a46153ea82ef82fd2af97a493a Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, South African cheetah petting programs: exploitative entertainment or conservation? http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=19188 Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:46:26 -0700 At least 600 cheetahs are kept in captivity in South African tourism facilities, offering interactions and cub petting in the name of conservation and education. Do these facilities truly promote the conservation […]

]]> 0 a47c83b0a8d39dfd6118b385f8eb80b3 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Is transformation in South Africa only possible through a consumptive wildlife economy? http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=17206 Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:48:41 -0700 A recent South African Parliamentary wildlife colloquium ignored the benefits of non-consumptive wildlife utilisation as ecological sustainability was obscured by the increasing commodification of wildlife […]

]]> 0 68a73c73e53f48f3438eff290e743ca7 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Xanda, son of Cecil the lion, killed by trophy hunters in Zimbabwe http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=14244 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 21:31:16 -0700 By Adam Cruise

The death of Cecil’s son, Xanda at the hands of trophy hunters on 7 July is mired in confusion. He was shot just outside Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, near the spot his father was killed by […]

]]> 0 a4f01632827dce01dbf725732c87f33c Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Tough choices ahead for South Africa's Kruger National Park http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=13893 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 05:18:23 -0700 By Tony Carnie

What will South Africa’s national parks and game reserves look like ten or 50 years hence? The last bastions of wilderness sheltering remnant animal populations, or crowded and overexploited t […]

]]> 0 7e1de70b556b5bbcd248bd57758e953d Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Botswana Budget Cuts Imperil Anti-Poaching Efforts http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=12218 Sun, 30 Apr 2017 21:35:36 -0700 By Oscar Nkala

Botswana’s world acclaimed anti-poaching success story is being threatened by budget cuts that have forced the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) to curtail patrols of the elite R […]

]]> 0 736d4800c602bc17e973ee13d3cee6d1 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, New trade ruling spells end for rhinos, say conservationists http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=11476 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 03:56:56 -0700 By Janine Avery

With the Sumatran rhinoceros officially extinct in the wild, are South Africa’s rhinos doomed to the same fate? Earlier this month the country’s 2009 moratorium on the domestic trade in rhi […]

]]> 0 6749b2b9e834ec053e2f9efcabbd4b49 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Leopards in the Crossfire: Trophy Hunting and the Seven Year Rule http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=10711 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:35:57 -0700 Cape Town, South Africa – If cats do have nine lives, leopards are on their last. Especially the big, strong males of the species, as the DEA seems set on reintroducing leopard trophy hunting quotas.

The DEA i […]

]]> 0 15ab2ac5e01abcd58ffc56624827d2ca Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, South Africa animal welfare groups devastated after 15-year Lotto lifeline cut off http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=10472 Mon, 27 Mar 2017 02:54:16 -0700 Cape Town – Animal welfare organisations are reeling from an unexpected announcement that they will no longer receive funding from the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) – a decision which could also have dev […]

]]> 0 e84be77b111941fd663de87b2940cd8f Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Timbavati risks tourist backlash to hunt a super tusker http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=10627 Wed, 08 Mar 2017 09:11:16 -0800 By Don Pinnock

“Synecdoce” is an interesting but seldom used word of Greek origin which means a part of some object or action which represents the whole. An example is the Timbavati reserve’s application to […]

]]> 0 0666211e5b1077ec68587040a26c6d48 Conservation Action Trust wrote a new post, Rhino sale bombshell hidden in new draft regulations http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=9850 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:42:09 -0800 By Don Pinnock

The public has until March 10 to respond to draft regulations by the South African Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) which seek to make widespread sale of rhino horn legal and […]

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