NEWS
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...
Reaserch conducted by Prof Peet van der Merwe of North Weste Uiversity found that trophy and biltong hunters 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 (consumptive wild...
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...