The department of environmental affairs has put forward a paper suggesting that rhino horn be allowed to be traded on the Johannesburg bourse.
Animal rights activists have criticised proposals by Angola’s government to start culling seals in what it claims is a bid to protect fish stocks.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare has called for a ban on the ivory trade after Malaysia seized a shipment of illegal tusks from Cape Town.
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/ 16 January 2008
The anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd scored a victory on Wednesday in its high-seas campaign to obstruct a Japanese whale hunt in the Antarctic, forcing the fleet to a standstill while officials tried to unload two protesters who had boarded a harpoon vessel from their rubber boat.
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/ 29 November 2007
Four rare gorillas at the centre of a five-year international tussle are due to fly from South Africa just after midnight on Friday to a wildlife sanctuary in Cameroon. Tinu, Izan, Oyin and Abbey were all lightly tranquillised as they were loaded into giant wooden crates on Thursday for the 18-hour journey to their new home.