In a joint report published today, the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) and the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) set out findings of a review of the regulation of the welfare of wild animals in South Africa. The report, entitled Fair Game? Improving the Regulation of the Well-being of South African Wildlife finds that there are major gaps in both legislation and the … [Read more...]
730,000 elephants missing from protected areas in Africa
A new study from the Conservation Ecology Research Unit (CERU) at the University of Pretoria predicts how many elephants there should be in 73 protected areas spanning 21 African countries. The research concludes that, largely due to poaching, protected areas are missing 75 per cent of their elephants, some 730,000 individuals. One-third of protected areas have less than five … [Read more...]
Key conservation organisations secure global support to end canned hunting
The fight against canned lion hunting has had a small victory by gathering global support. This support will be formally announced at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, which is taking place in Hawaii from the 1st to 10th September. The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) in association with Wildlands, the South African Wildlife College (SAWC), and a range of other … [Read more...]
Dog fighting must fall
I saw her on the pavement outside Surfside Restaurant in Strand. She was big and black; her coat was drenched in an oily wetness; she crouched as if to resist going further and cringed in a way so horrible that I heard myself asking: “What’s wrong with your dog? Why is she so scared?” Young and tall and lean, tattooed and pierced with earrings across his face, he laughed … [Read more...]
Negative impacts of factory farming
Factory farming is cruel, wreaks havoc on our bodies and accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than all transport combined. Yet, in our profit-driven society, these methods still remain. Intensive farming, also referred to as industrial animal agriculture or factory farming, is a system of raising animals using intensive ‘production line' methods that maximize the … [Read more...]
