09 Jun 2023
The UK
Parliament recently decided to initiate a legal process of stopping the
import of hunting trophies into the UK. Purportedly because…
02 Jun 2023
There is nothing ‘natural’ about wildlife management. It is man
conceived, man designed, man applied, man implemented, man manipulated
and…
25 May 2023
THE ANIMAL RIGHTS
BRIGADE seems to have bamboozled the whole world into believing that if they
succeed in banning trophy hunting, they will…
05 May 2023
It seems that South Africa has now agreed to set aside, for
biodiversity protection reasons, land equivalents that are twice the size…
16 Apr 2023
An exceptionally factual and objectively written book on Trophy Hunting. Written by Nikolaj Bichel of the Wildlife Conservation Research…
11 Apr 2023
It seems that DFFE is going to strive to double the size of South Africa’s protected areas (on land and in the sea), and that it will be…
29 Mar 2023
Because they interfere (often stop)
many “best practice” ecosystem management programmes that are essential
for the maintenance of wild…
24 Feb 2023
Despite opposition to the import of hunting trophies into UK, there is a lot to say why this should not happen. Read Emmanuel Koro's…
23 Feb 2023
For more than a decade, Kruger National Park has faced a relentless onslaught of rhino poaching. But today its greatest threat is internal…
03 Nov 2022
Ask a wildlife enthusiast how to fund conservation in Africa without
hunting tourism, or trophy hunting as some like to call it and they…
18 Sep 2022
Ron Thomson of True Green Alliance asks: "Who is Barbara Creecy, a South African Government Minister or a Public Liability?"
16 Apr 2022
The animal rights fundraising industry lies were exposed
again this year when the U.S. courts decided to listen to the truth
coming from…
27 Mar 2022
Cape Town, 26 March 2022, 16:00: In what can only be described as a shock decision, the Western Cape High Court granted an urgent relief to…
05 Mar 2022
Despite all-inclusive anti-poaching initiatives since 2013, poaching for rhino horn continues to pose a significant threat to the…
25 Feb 2022
What is the life-span of an African elephant? Sixty years the scientists will tell you. That means its four life-quarters equate to…
28 Jan 2022
CHASA, CEO, Stephen Palos on the fact that Pongola Game Reserve had to let their elephant go because bureaucracy makes it impossible to…
28 Jan 2022
TGA on demise of Kruger National Park under Minister Creecy:
14 Nov 2021
The American environmental historian Roderick Nash speaks of ‘wilderness’ as driving an economy made up of importers and exporters of a…
02 Nov 2021
In August 2021, Kiambwa Lekitony, an
11-year-old boy from Tanzania, witnessed how a lion killed and ate his
three younger brothers. He…
16 Sep 2021
Botswana hunting communities in the wildlife-rich Chobe District have
decided to further improve wildlife and habitat conservation as well…
14 Sep 2021
The Bontebok is one of the most extraordinary examples of species
population recovery and habitat protection brought about by the…
30 Aug 2021
Read this exceptional paper by Prof. Brian Child on the realities of people and conservation in southern Africa and how misinformation and…
30 Aug 2021
Human-elephant
conflict in Namibia has had a significant impact on the production potential of
farms, and has become a serious threat to…
02 Jul 2021
Hardly a moment goes by these days, without
some ridiculous claim being made by an ignorant animal rightist; by some
idiotic foreign…
14 May 2021
It seems the UK government is set on putting animal rights into law in that country. Read John Nash's explanation of that serious folly HERE
05 May 2021
Ivo Vegter writes: It was almost inevitable that a minister with no experience
of conservation or environmentalism would get railroaded by…
18 Mar 2021
Africa's hunting culture, including that of Botswana, will never die, no matter how much Western animal rights groups try to influence…
17 Mar 2021
This TGA statement is long overdue.
19 Feb 2021
In January 2021, the ministry of
forestry, fisheries and environmental affairs confirmed that the
population of southern white rhinos in…
11 Feb 2021
Before habitat damage goes too far, any responsible management programme will reduce the number of elephants to something closer to the…
11 Feb 2021
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…
11 Feb 2021
It is high time that every southern African country actively and
conclusively settle the wild trade question. It is simple. According…
01 Feb 2021
The MAIN danger that the black rhino finds itself in, is as a consequence of the authorities’ total lack of understanding about the…
19 Nov 2020
The Animal Rights Brigade have been at great pains to tell the world that South Africa’s Captive Breeding of Lions Industry (CBL) has…
11 Oct 2020
Animal rights NGOs are currently exploiting the Covid-19 pandemic to close down animal farms and prohibit all trade in wildlife. I am on…
07 Oct 2020
The African continent has all the natural resources such as minerals and timber that the world needs and is willing to pay for. Wildlife…
07 Oct 2020
Ron Thomson writes: "My criticism of SANParks and what I call its mis-management of elephants in Kruger National Park; and its…
28 Jun 2020
The public are often dis-informed (purposefully confused) by the manner in which animal rightist NGOs refer to themselves as being animal…
17 Jun 2020
If wildlife has no value to people in rural communities, it will be eradicated and substituted with other land use options (livestock or…
06 Jun 2020
Botswana’s Elephants are Dying of Starvation.
20 May 2020
A glance at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) “Acute Food Insecurity” map reveals an arresting pattern. A huge swathe of…
11 May 2020
Dr Solom Joubert writes the following on elephant management in the Kruger National Park: “Since 2010 this is my fourth submission to…
04 May 2020
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…
03 Apr 2020
One wonders how many times we must hammer this topic of too many elephants in Botswana and in Kruger before bureaucrats start listening to…
20 Feb 2020
‘Should we rather kill people and leave elephants to run Botswana? We have to look at wildlife against people’s livelihoods. Hunting ...…
27 Jan 2020
Stephen Palos (CHASA CEO) closes his plea to the UK government for common sense in UK concerning this matter, with the following words:…
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 –…
01 Nov 2019
In their Daily Newsletter of 1 November 2019, Game & Hunt writes on reaction against the continueing CITES neo-colonialist approach of…
12 Sep 2019
Emmanuel Koro of True Green Alliance (TGA) fame attended the 2019 COP 18 meeting of CITES in Geneve, Switzerland.
16 Jul 2019
“I hate elephants,” said Lumba Nderiki, a farmer well into her 80s, as she strolled through her modest and barren field in the Chobe…
09 Jul 2019
Introduction:
02 Jul 2019
Latest Conservation Frontlines publication - read HERE
02 Jul 2019
Read Rowan Martin real elephant management expert on the real need for sustainable use of these large animals in southern-Africa. Read…
18 Jun 2019
READ THE ARTICLE OF RON THOMSON HERE
10 Jun 2019
The Botswana Government has lifted the ban on hunting - an action appluaded by NHSA - read BELOW
09 Apr 2019
In response to SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (SAIIA) Dispatches of March 2019 re the purported negatives of Captive…
08 Mar 2019
Ron Thomson of TGA writes:
05 Mar 2019
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…
05 Mar 2019
Follow the informative Email converstation re the management of Elephant numbers in Botswana - the real deal when it comes to conservation…
19 Feb 2019
Parliament, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 – The Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs strongly condemns the actions of South African…
18 Nov 2018
Research conducted by Prof Peet van der Merwe of North West University found that trophy hunters and hunters for meat, contributed a…
29 Oct 2018
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…
17 Nov 2017
Think of Cecil the lion’s death in 2015. Were you horrified? Why?
29 Aug 2017
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…
06 Apr 2017
In a very welcome decision, the Constitutional Court denied DEA the request to appeal against the High Court's decision to legalise the…
03 Apr 2017
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…
21 Nov 2016
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…
05 Oct 2016
There are clear indications that African countries are considering to disengage from CITES. CITES has clearly been taken over by green…
21 Sep 2016
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…
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…
04 Aug 2016
Ron Thomson (True Green Alliance, President) writes the Zimbabwean Minister of Environment a letter regarding the absolute over pupulation…
09 Jun 2016
The Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa has filed an application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court in the matter…
07 Jun 2016
The poaching onslaught on Kruger's Elephant has started. NHSA is on record as warning on this issue due to government's inaction on…
02 Jun 2016
The founding ot the True Green (TGA) is directed at totally discrediting the doctrine of animal rightsism within the public domain. It will…
30 May 2016
A scientific study found that banning lion hunting in three West African countries will not benefit lion conservation at all - read full…
27 May 2016
DAILY MAVERICK
28 Apr 2016
Despite indications that South Africa will ask CITES to lift the ban on the trade in Rhino horn (our previous News Article), Cabinet has…
28 Apr 2016
Animal rights groups have launched high- profile propaganda campaigns against the sustainable and highly regulated hunting of African…
28 Mar 2016
With the hunting season fast approaching, we are again entering a time in which hunting and the hunter, will come under the severe scruteny…
22 Mar 2016
The decision is contained in National Treasury’s “Estimates of National Expenditure 2016 for Environmental Affairs”, released in February,…
09 Mar 2016
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…
26 Feb 2016
By Aislinn Laing, Klerksdorp, South Africa
25 Feb 2016
HUNTING NEWS
23 Feb 2016
A number of press reports would have informed you of the interim stopping of leopard hunting in the country.