HELVETIA SCI
Botswana's president wants to send 20,000 elephants to Germany. Behind the joke lies anger at the image of Africa held by Western environmentalists.
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Los Angeles residents grieved the death of a wild mountain lion in late December. The cougar, as it is properly known, was put down by veterinarians when it could no longer stalk food or defend its territory.
Rural and urban Kenyan citizens have appealed to the future President of Kenya to “lift the unhelpful international hunting ban” that brought an increase in wildlife poaching and missed opportunities to support wildlife conservation with...
To gain or totally lose respect of African people and wildlife conservationists worldwide?
This is the question that the British Government must answer quickly in view of the somewhat shaky decision that it reportedly made recently, to...
If it was a movie, it would focus on a top British politician’s 21st century moment of madness when he chose not to listen to wildlife management experts but to the clueless animal rights groups fundraising industry; whose figureheads ill-advised...
Kenya has disastrously ‘decided’ to continue losing its lion population to poachers and communities that suffer the costs of co-existing with the lions without benefiting from them, forcing them to embark on revenge killings.
In sharp...
If Kenya had known that its 1977 hunting ban would devalue and massively degrade its wildlife it might have avoided it. Sadly, the damage has already been done. A professor of the US-based University of Florida Centre For African Studies, Dr...
By Emmanuel Koro, Johannesburg, South Africa: If the controversy over international hunting was a third world war between Western animal rights groups and the African hunting communities – animal rights groups would lose it on the ground. Yes, at...
Why should African rural communities co-existing with wildlife and receiving zero benefits from it bother conserving wildlife that damages their crops, kills their livestock, loved ones and destroys their property?
Zambia’s quiet diplomacy in its efforts to convince the Western countries and animal rights groups to stop their trophy hunting imports ban dictatorship over Africa seems to have ended. It broke the silence in May 2021. Last month, the director...
Article posted by FACE in Nature Conservation. Fact-checking the EU's State of Nature report.
Hunting is increasingly being referred to as a high-pressure driving species’ loss and habitat deterioration. This assumption...
Lorsque des critères stricts sont respectés, la chasse aux trophées a tout son rôle dans la conservation de la biodiversité.