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The Animal Rights Brigade have been at great pains to tell the world that South Africa’s Captive Breeding of Lions Industry (CBL) has absolutely no ‘conservation value’. By that, they mean, wild lions gain no survival benefits from the practice of breeding lions in captivity. ...
Animal rights NGOs are currently exploiting the Covid-19 pandemic to close down animal farms and prohibit all trade in wildlife. I am on the frontline of that battle. From 1982 to 1990, I headed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Today I spe...
The African continent has all the natural resources such as minerals and timber that the world needs and is willing to pay for. Wildlife and its products such as stockpiled ivory, elephant skins and rhino horn are in high demand. Ironically, the African continent remains frustratingly paralysed in ...
Ron Thomson writes: "My criticism of SANParks and what I call its mis-management of elephants in Kruger National Park; and its mis-management of the national park itself, has various facets. One of those facets concerns the organisation’s total disregard of the fact that KNP has (or had...
The public are often dis-informed (purposefully confused) by the manner in which animal rightist NGOs refer to themselves as being animal welfare in orientation, when animal rights and animal welfare are two totally different things. So, let us put the record straight. READ THE TRUTH HERE...
If wildlife has no value to people in rural communities, it will be eradicated and substituted with other land use options (livestock or crops) that can allow for the subsistence living of rural people. Read why the title of this PHASA report is spot-on !!...
Botswana’s Elephants are Dying of Starvation. The Journal of African Elephants, in a news release dated 2nd June 2020, under the heading “Botswana Elephant Deaths Mystery Deepens as Toll Rises”. The report by Mqondisi Dube (Voice of America) states: GABARONE, BOTSWANA: Th...
A glance at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) “Acute Food Insecurity” map reveals an arresting pattern. A huge swathe of Mozambique, including the border areas with the Kruger Park, are shaded orange. That represents the “crisis” level of hunger. The next l...
Dr Solom Joubert writes the following on elephant management in the Kruger National Park: “Since 2010 this is my fourth submission to Skukuza on the topic of elephant management. For the first three no response was received. They were also submitted for consideration in the revisi...
Is South Africa practising good governance in the wildlife sector? Or has it allowed itself to be led by the nose by the international and local animal rights community? Read Ron Thomson's Open TGA Letter to the Minister of Environmental Affairs on the topic HERE...
One wonders how many times we must hammer this topic of too many elephants in Botswana and in Kruger before bureaucrats start listening to facts ?? Read Prof Brain Child's take on this HERE ...
‘Should we rather kill people and leave elephants to run Botswana? We have to look at wildlife against people’s livelihoods. Hunting ... protects human life and wildlife’. READ FURTHER......
Stephen Palos (CHASA CEO) closes his plea to the UK government for common sense in UK concerning this matter, with the following words: "Your decision must, of course, be in the best interests of the United Kingdom. But as much as you are a nation of islands, you do not function as an island. In fa...
Ron Thomson - open letter to the President and Minister of DEFF on captive bred lion: "My biggest concern about this whole CBL debacle – and it IS a ‘debacle’ - is the mannerin which the parliamentary committee ‘teamed up’ with local and international animalright...
In their Daily Newsletter of 1 November 2019, Game & Hunt writes on reaction against the continueing CITES neo-colonialist approach of telling SADC countries how they should manage their wildlife Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe are going to submit protest documents that will allow them to legal...
Emmanuel Koro of True Green Alliance (TGA) fame attended the 2019 COP 18 meeting of CITES in Geneve, Switzerland. Emmanuel confirms the continued vote buying of animal rightist and green movements through delegates and delegations of less wealthy African countries. Especially focussed agains...
“I hate elephants,” said Lumba Nderiki, a farmer well into her 80s, as she strolled through her modest and barren field in the Chobe enclave, a strip of mostly farmland between the river and national park of the same name. “Two simple reasons: They have widowed me, and they have l...
Introduction: In the never-ending debate on the elephant carrying capacity of the Kruger National Park, and the results of habitat destruction due to the over population of elephant in the park, it seems no-one has considered that Kruger is not really different from a very large game ranch ...
Latest Conservation Frontlines publication - read HERE
Read Rowan Martin real elephant management expert on the real need for sustainable use of these large animals in southern-Africa. Read Article HERE ...
READ THE ARTICLE OF RON THOMSON HERE
The Botswana Government has lifted the ban on hunting - an action appluaded by NHSA - read BELOW...
In response to SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (SAIIA) Dispatches of March 2019 re the purported negatives of Captive Bread Lion, Ron Tomson of TGA responds as follows, and rectifies their errors in judgement: READ HERE...
Ron Thomson of TGA writes: I am amazed at how many elephant management experts there are in the Western World. Gauged by the number of letters of advice that land upon the desk of the Botswana President, Mr Mokgweetsi Masisi, there must be thousands. Now we have more advice from a well...
Dr Patrick Moore explains why he helped to create Greenpeace, and why he decided to leave it. What began as a mission to improve the environment for the sake of humanity had become a political movement in which humanity became the villain and hard science a non-issue. THIS IS A MUST LI...
Follow the informative Email converstation re the management of Elephant numbers in Botswana - the real deal when it comes to conservation through sustainable hunting Read HERE...
Parliament, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 – The Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs strongly condemns the actions of South African National Parks (SANParks) in proceeding to sign the cooperative agreement between the Kruger National Park and the Association of Private Nature Reserves de...
Research conducted by Prof Peet van der Merwe of North West University found that trophy hunters and hunters for meat, contributed a combined R13.6 billion ($909 million) to the South African economy in 2016/2017 season. This is only the direct contribution. The research found that hunters (consum...
This is the third report of the Broken Blue Line project – the first having been published by the IRR in 2011 andthe second in 2015. As with the two previous reports, this document examines the extent to which the policeare involved in perpetrating criminal violence. As we stated in the previ...
Think of Cecil the lion’s death in 2015. Were you horrified? Why? For many, the outrage over Walter Palmer’s decision to hunt the lion and then pose with his dead ‘trophy’ simply stemmed from the idea that this majestic creature had been needlessly killed when it may be soo...
There is no scientific study that has so far proved that safari hunting in Botswana was carried out in unsustainable basis to warrant a ban in 2014. Conversely, there is evidence that safari hunting in Botswana was regulated particularly through the quota system to promote sustainability. The wildl...
In a very welcome decision, the Constitutional Court denied DEA the request to appeal against the High Court's decision to legalise the sale of rhino horn in South Africa. Although this does not mean that rhino horn may be sold internationally, at least it brings some relief for South African...
The plight of the world’s rhinoceros species is one that should never have been allowed to happen. Yet, in Africa, the Northern white rhino is virtually extinct, the feisty Black rhino is critically endangered and the placid Southern white rhino has had to be rescued from the brink of extinct...
African Indaba » Sustainable Use » The Hunter’s Image November 2016, Volume 14-4&5 Yes, a lion got killed. Yes, he had a name and was a favorite at a well-known photographic installation in Hwange National Park. He was killed in a place with no lion permit and ...
There are clear indications that African countries are considering to disengage from CITES. CITES has clearly been taken over by green movements and by animal rightists NGOs and seems to no longer support the African focus of conservation through sustainable use. CITES has thus become j...
With the nearing CITES Cop in South Africa later in September 2016, the issue of lion conservation is on the forefront. See and listen how the ban on lion hunting descimated the species in Botswana - see the talk on video - a must see item (a little slow download) ...
South Africa will soon play host to CoP17 – the 17th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. The fact that CITES’ 12-day global gathering is being held in the Southern African region is the best opportunity yet for the wider c...
Ron Thomson (True Green Alliance, President) writes the Zimbabwean Minister of Environment a letter regarding the absolute over pupulation of Elephant in Southern Africa (Zimbabwe specifically), due to the USA Department of Fish & Wildlife's ban on the import of Elephant ivory into the USA.&nbs...
The Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa has filed an application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court in the matter involving the moratorium on the domestic trade in rhino horn. It is NHSA's opinion that this is just another nail in the Rhino coffin, as the current procedures...
The poaching onslaught on Kruger's Elephant has started. NHSA is on record as warning on this issue due to government's inaction on legalising trade in Rhino horn and Elephant ivory. In any other manner these animals have no chance of surviving the poaching onslaught. Poaching is ...
The founding ot the True Green (TGA) is directed at totally discrediting the doctrine of animal rightsism within the public domain. It will best be able to achieve this from the periphery; and that is where we wish to remain because that is where our attentions will be focussed. We intend to...
A scientific study found that banning lion hunting in three West African countries will not benefit lion conservation at all - read full text HERE...
How ‘endangered species’ destroy the environment IVO VEGTER 25 MAY 2016 10:47 (SOUTH AFRICA) DAILY MAVERICK Animal rights activists, most of whom live in wealthy urban comfort, far from the realities of nature and its conservation, are destroying the ecosystems of Africa. Fo...
Despite indications that South Africa will ask CITES to lift the ban on the trade in Rhino horn (our previous News Article), Cabinet has decided to not ask for the opening of the legal trade in Rhino horn at the coming CITES meeting to be held in South Africa a little later this year. Weep with us...
Animal rights groups have launched high- profile propaganda campaigns against the sustainable and highly regulated hunting of African elephants, using them to push a sweeping political agenda. Despite the incessant trumpeting from these activists that they’re “speaking for” the in...
With the hunting season fast approaching, we are again entering a time in which hunting and the hunter, will come under the severe scruteny of the anti-hunting lobby. In so many instances, however, we as hunters are ourselves to blame for the severe critisism hunting and the hunter is subjected to...
The decision is contained in National Treasury’s “Estimates of National Expenditure 2016 for Environmental Affairs”, released in February, which states “South Africa will submit its rhino horn trade proposal at Cites COP17”, The Citizen reported. It says the pro...
It is clear that the persistant ban on the legal trade in Elephant ivory and in Rhino horn is not working and that the massive amounts of money to be made in the Black Market for these products will keep on driving the poaching of these animals. Read the Article here...
Why the world's largest rhino farmer is cutting off their horns South African farmer John Hume says he would be "happy" to supply the criminal poaching networks driving the animals to extinction with a legal alternative and the money raised would help him protect his own he...
Reportedly the issue of Cecil the Lion has created a situation where international hunters do not want to hunt lion in Zimbabwe. The upshoot thereof is that Zimbabwe will possibly have to cull a large number of lions. Read here - Zimbabwe Park to Cull 200 Lions...................... &n...
A number of press reports would have informed you of the interim stopping of leopard hunting in the country. The current stopping of the hunting of leopard is an interim measure of the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) and the Scientific Authority of South Africa to be able to make informe...