Mosquito season in southern Africa: tonic water and vitamins won’t protect you but knowing where the hotspots are will. READ GOOD…
In recent discussions surrounding trophy hunting, various myths have been perpetuated, often leading to misconceptions about its impact on…
A legal analysis commissioned by the CIC in Germany reveals
that national trophy import bans in EU countries like Belgium, Finland,
France,…
Richard York of WRSA on conservation value hunting
Debunking Myths About Hunting: Separating Fact from Fiction
Trophy hunting is not threatening a single species with extinction. It is actively contributing to the conservation of many endangered…
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The Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill: The risks to conservation, rights and livelihoods
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…
There is nothing ‘natural’ about wildlife management. It is man
conceived, man designed, man applied, man implemented, man manipulated
and…
The Scourge of Animal Rightism: Banning Trophy Hunting Will Not Stop the Killing of Wild Animals
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…
An Early Obituary In Memory of the One-time Great Biological Diversity of Kruger National Park
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…
An exceptionally factual and objectively written book on Trophy Hunting. Written by Nikolaj Bichel of the Wildlife Conservation Research…
An Early Obituary In memory of the one-time great biological diversity of Kruger National Park
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…
Because they interfere (often stop)
many “best practice” ecosystem management programmes that are essential
for the maintenance of wild…
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…
For more than a decade, Kruger National Park has faced a relentless onslaught of rhino poaching. But today its greatest threat is internal…
Ask a wildlife enthusiast how to fund conservation in Africa without
hunting tourism, or trophy hunting as some like to call it and they…
Ron Thomson of True Green Alliance asks: "Who is Barbara Creecy, a South African Government Minister or a Public Liability?"
The animal rights fundraising industry lies were exposed
again this year when the U.S. courts decided to listen to the truth
coming from…
INTERIM INTERDICT STOPS HUNTING QUOTA FOR LEOPARD, RHINO AND ELEPHANT FROM BE3ING IMPLEMENTED
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…
Despite all-inclusive anti-poaching initiatives since 2013, poaching for rhino horn continues to pose a significant threat to the…
What is the life-span of an African elephant? Sixty years the scientists will tell you. That means its four life-quarters equate to…
CHASA, CEO, Stephen Palos on the fact that Pongola Game Reserve had to let their elephant go because bureaucracy makes it impossible to…
TGA on demise of Kruger National Park under Minister Creecy:
The American environmental historian Roderick Nash speaks of ‘wilderness’ as driving an economy made up of importers and exporters of a…
In August 2021, Kiambwa Lekitony, an
11-year-old boy from Tanzania, witnessed how a lion killed and ate his
three younger brothers. He…
Botswana hunting communities in the wildlife-rich Chobe District have
decided to further improve wildlife and habitat conservation as well…
The Bontebok is one of the most extraordinary examples of species
population recovery and habitat protection brought about by the…
Read this exceptional paper by Prof. Brian Child on the realities of people and conservation in southern Africa and how misinformation and…
Human-elephant
conflict in Namibia has had a significant impact on the production potential of
farms, and has become a serious threat to…
Hardly a moment goes by these days, without
some ridiculous claim being made by an ignorant animal rightist; by some
idiotic foreign…
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
Ivo Vegter writes: It was almost inevitable that a minister with no experience
of conservation or environmentalism would get railroaded by…
Africa's hunting culture, including that of Botswana, will never die, no matter how much Western animal rights groups try to influence…
This TGA statement is long overdue.
In January 2021, the ministry of
forestry, fisheries and environmental affairs confirmed that the
population of southern white rhinos in…
Before habitat damage goes too far, any responsible management programme will reduce the number of elephants to something closer to the…
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…
It is high time that every southern African country actively and
conclusively settle the wild trade question. It is simple. According…
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
HUNTING NEWS
A number of press reports would have informed you of the interim stopping of leopard hunting in the country.
Recent Posts
- MALARIA-POSSIBLY AFRICA'S MOST DANGEROUS DISEASE
- FACTS ON TROPHY HUNTING DO NOT CEASE TO EXIST JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE IGNORED
- CIC LEGAL ANALYSIS: TROPHY IMPORT BANS VIOLATE EUROPEAN LAW
- HUNTING IS CONSERVATION: ROCKS VERSUS DIAMONDS
- DEBUNKING MYTHS ABOUT HUNTING: SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION
- TROPHY HUNTING UNDERMINES CONSERVATION ? WRONG
- The Profile and Soci-Economic Impact of Local Hunters in South Africa
- The Profile and Socio-Economic Impact of Game Farms in South Africa
- The Profile and Soci-Economic Impact of International Hunters in South Africa
- The Profile and Soci-Economic Impact of the Taxidermy Industry of South Africa
- The Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill: The risks to conservation, rights and livelihoods
- "CONSERVATION” EXPLAINED. FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICIAN AND NATURE-LOVER
- The Scourge of Animal Rightism: Banning Trophy Hunting Will Not Stop the Killing of Wild Animals
- An Early Obituary In Memory of the One-time Great Biological Diversity of Kruger National Park
- TROPHY HUNTING
- An Early Obituary In memory of the one-time great biological diversity of Kruger National Park
- Why are Animal Rightists so Bad for Wildlife?
- Why hunting will not be stopped in Africa despite foreign opposition
- Crime, Corruption and Murder in Greater Kruger
- How ecotourists kill wildlife with their cameras