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Over the past year, leopards were captured alive in cage traps without the required permits in three separate incidents. The National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) failure to apply the correct law is not a correctable error — it becomes a permanent constitutional outcome. Photos: Supplied
CAPE NATURE

The NPA’s war on leopards and the wildlife laws

In three separate incidents across the Western Cape in the past year — in Piketberg, Bot River and Bredasdorp—landowners or their agents captured leopards alive in cage traps…

  • Bool Smuts
16 min read
BOOL SMUTS

Freedom of speech wins over right to privacy in court battle over unethical wildlife killings

The supreme court of appeal says an animal rights activist had the right to ‘out’ a farmer on Facebook.

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
A lion attempts to jump the fence of its enclosure, at a lion breeding farm near Tosca, in the North West Province. (Photo by Naashon Zalk/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
BARBARA CREECY

Wildlife owners may target state

South Africa has about 350 facilities with 8 000 to 12 000 lions bred in captivity for commercial use in cub petting, canned hunting and the lion bone and other body parts trade.

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read