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The documentary Stroop left me numb and devastated. Bonné de Bod and Susan Scott spent 4 years on a fact-finding mission to bring to light all aspects of our rhino poaching crisis.
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We applaud the HAWKS for the arrest of nine members of an illegal joint Vietnamese-South African lion and tiger bone syndicate operating from the North West Province.
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Botswana’s parliament recently passed a motion considering lifting the ban on elephant trophy hunting. In the debate following, unsubstantiated facts and figures concerning Botswana’s elephant population are used to support the hunting agenda.
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55 poached elephant found in Botswana during aerial survey. At what stage do we pull our heads out of the sand and admit we have an elephant poaching problem and do something to stop it?, says Mike Chase.
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When we examine the legal trading of cheetah between breeding farms and tourism facilities in South Africa, we start to understand this growing and worrying trend of prolific captive cheetah breeding.
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Today, I visited a local initiative in Noordhoek organised by Karoline Hanks. She got the local community to pick up rubbish mostly from the road verges and green spaces, and turn the waste into eco-bricks.
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I am taking on the #PlasticFreeJuly challenge by refuse single-use plastic items, such as water bottles, straws, carrier bags and plastic cups. Also drawing attention to the impact of the microbeads in personal care products.
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What leaves me completely and utterly baffled is why Sir David Attenborough, a man who has given his life to wildlife and nature conservation, went along with the suggested Radio Times photo shoot.
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Tented Eco Camp is Gondwana Game Reserve’s new, green kid on the block. The camp offers more down-to-earth accommodation and hands-on and educational activities benefiting conservation.
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Rocherpan Nature Reserve had not been on my radar, but after spending just a few days in this small, but unique CapeNature reserve near Velddrift, I’d fallen head over heels.
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