In January 2021, the ministry of
forestry, fisheries and environmental affairs confirmed that the
population of southern white rhinos in…
It is high time that every southern African country actively and
conclusively settle the wild trade question. It is simple. According…
When it was first introduced, South Africa’s Firearms Control Act was intended to usher in a new era of firearms
control in the newly…
Before habitat damage goes too far, any responsible management programme will reduce the number of elephants to something closer to the…
The MAIN danger that the black rhino finds itself in, is as a consequence of the authorities’ total lack of understanding about the…
The Animal Rights Brigade have been at great pains to tell the world that South Africa’s Captive Breeding of Lions Industry (CBL) has…
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 African continent has all the natural resources such as minerals and timber that the world needs and is willing to pay for. Wildlife…
Ron Thomson writes: "My criticism of SANParks and what I call its mis-management of elephants in Kruger National Park; and its…
The public are often dis-informed (purposefully confused) by the manner in which animal rightist NGOs refer to themselves as being animal…
If wildlife has no value to people in rural communities, it will be eradicated and substituted with other land use options (livestock or…
Botswana’s Elephants are Dying of Starvation.
A glance at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) “Acute Food Insecurity” map reveals an arresting pattern. A huge swathe of…
Dr Solom Joubert writes the following on elephant management in the Kruger National Park: “Since 2010 this is my fourth submission to…
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…
One wonders how many times we must hammer this topic of too many elephants in Botswana and in Kruger before bureaucrats start listening to…
‘Should we rather kill people and leave elephants to run Botswana? We have to look at wildlife against people’s livelihoods. Hunting ...…
Stephen Palos (CHASA CEO) closes his plea to the UK government for common sense in UK concerning this matter, with the following words:…
Parliamentary Committees, DEFF and Animal Rights; The Captive Breeding of Lions (CBL); & A Call to Action
10 Dec 2019
Ron Thomson - open letter to the President and Minister of DEFF on captive bred lion: "My biggest concern about this whole CBL debacle –…
In their Daily Newsletter of 1 November 2019, Game & Hunt writes on reaction against the continueing CITES neo-colonialist approach of…
Emmanuel Koro of True Green Alliance (TGA) fame attended the 2019 COP 18 meeting of CITES in Geneve, Switzerland.
“I hate elephants,” said Lumba Nderiki, a farmer well into her 80s, as she strolled through her modest and barren field in the Chobe…
Introduction:
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…
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…
Ron Thomson of TGA writes:
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…
Follow the informative Email converstation re the management of Elephant numbers in Botswana - the real deal when it comes to conservation…
Parliament, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 – The Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs strongly condemns the actions of South African…
Research conducted by Prof Peet van der Merwe of North West University found that trophy hunters and hunters for meat, contributed a…
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…
Think of Cecil the lion’s death in 2015. Were you horrified? Why?
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 a very welcome decision, the Constitutional Court denied DEA the request to appeal against the High Court's decision to legalise the…
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…
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…
There are clear indications that African countries are considering to disengage from CITES. CITES has clearly been taken over by green…
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…
Ex secretary-general of CITES calls for conservationists to support sustainable use of wildlife
15 Sep 2016
South Africa will soon play host to CoP17 – the 17th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna…
Ron Thomson (True Green Alliance, President) writes the Zimbabwean Minister of Environment a letter regarding the absolute over pupulation…
The Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa has filed an application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court in the matter…
The poaching onslaught on Kruger's Elephant has started. NHSA is on record as warning on this issue due to government's inaction on…
The founding ot the True Green (TGA) is directed at totally discrediting the doctrine of animal rightsism within the public domain. It will…
A scientific study found that banning lion hunting in three West African countries will not benefit lion conservation at all - read full…
DAILY MAVERICK
Despite indications that South Africa will ask CITES to lift the ban on the trade in Rhino horn (our previous News Article), Cabinet has…
Animal rights groups have launched high- profile propaganda campaigns against the sustainable and highly regulated hunting of African…
With the hunting season fast approaching, we are again entering a time in which hunting and the hunter, will come under the severe scruteny…
The decision is contained in National Treasury’s “Estimates of National Expenditure 2016 for Environmental Affairs”, released in February,…
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…
By Aislinn Laing, Klerksdorp, South Africa
A number of press reports would have informed you of the interim stopping of leopard hunting in the country.
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- Black Rhinoceros is in a Dangerous Situation in Kruger
- RANCHED LION HAVE HUGE CONSERVATION VALUE
- Sustainable Use Alliance Aims to Restore Integrity of CITES
- POVERTY-STRICKEN RESOURCE RICH AFRICA
- Mis-Management of Kruger National Park
- IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH IN SOUTH AFRICA’S WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AFFAIRS
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- Botswana’s Elephants are Dying of Starvation.
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- GOOD GOVERNANCE IN THE WILDLIFE SECTOR
- Elephants: A crisis of too many, not too few
- BOTSWANA ELEPHANT MANAGEMENT: SHOULD WE RATHER KILL PEOPLE ?
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