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Court battle: South African Predator Association is seeking an order to set aside minister’s failure to set export quotas.
ANIMAL PROTECTION ACT 71 OF 1962

Legal fight deepens over lion bone trade

The NSPCA and EMS Foundation have been admitted as intervening respondents in a High Court case that could determine whether the Minister is legally required to set export quotas…

  • Sheree Bega
4 min read
The South African Predators Association (Sapa) is fighting tooth and nail to reopen the controversial lion bone industry in the country. (Image via The Hawks)
BAN ANIMAL TRADING

South African Predators Association fights to reopen controversial lion bone industry

No quota has been set for the international trade in lion skeletons since 2019

  • Sheree Bega
9 min read
The Hawks has cracked a transnational wildlife trafficking syndicate at the centre of one of South Africa’s biggest rhino horns fraud schemes. Photo: Supplied
GOVERNMENT STOCKPILES

South Africa perpetuates rhino horn black market by stockpiling, report says

Official figures on rhino horn stockpiles are ‘conflicting, inconsistent, untrustworthy and cannot be verified’, the report says

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
The writer says Mining became an economic pillar because South Africa chose to develop it. Offshore oil and gas could do the same if we choose to.
DRILLING

TotalEnergies’ project to drill exploration wells on southwest coast hits pushback

Concentrate on renewable energy, rather than putting the sensitive habitats and species, whales at risk by drilling exploration wells

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
The House of Lords is expected to pass legislation that will make it illegal for citizens to bring home any animal body part. (JENS-ULRICH KOCH/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)
ALBI MODISE

UK decision to ban trophy-hunting imports disregards South Africa’s conservation success, government says

Animal rights groups say trophy hunting is unsustainable in sub-Saharan Africa, but research finds a ban on imports could have negative socioeconomic consequences

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
South Africa has split the animal welfare mandate between the department of forestry, fisheries and the environment (DFFE) and the department of agriculture, land reform and rural development. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)
ANIMAL PROTECTION ACT

Animal welfare bill being developed in isolation

Two government departments are working separately and animal rights groups are not being consulted, concerned groups say

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read