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Originally published on Daily Maverick. China has declared it will permit limited trade in rhino and tiger products from farmed animals, for use in research or traditional Chinese medicine. Opponents of legal trade had a collective apoplexy, but their oft-repeated mantras are not supported by fact. China’s decision to permit limited import, export and domestic trade… Continue reading Trade in rhino and tiger products might well save the species
By Jim Winter. BANG…………….. One dead seal out of a population of about 7 million 500 thousand. For over 50 years Canadian marine mammal scientists have studied the Harp seal herd off the east coast of Canada so we have a very, very good understanding of them. From this science the government of Canada sets… Continue reading Opinion: Animal rights corporations’ attacks on Faroe Islands and Canada are a labyrinth of lies
By Jim Winter, founding president, Canadian Sealers Association. The European Union recently announced that products made from seals hunted by Inuit people can continue to be sold in the EU despite the 2009 ban that prevents the importation or sale of all other seal products. It is impossible to imagine a sealing policy that would… Continue reading EU, BRITISH AND AMERICAN SEALING POLICY IS HYPOCRITICAL AND ANTI- DEMOCRATIC
By Emmanuel Koro. Originally published in The Herald. Against a background where it has been losing approximately 3 394 rhinos annually to poaching, with one rhino being killed every eight hours, South Africa has taken the lead in a new rhino conservation approach that no one can stop now and in the future. The unprecedented… Continue reading New rhino conservation approach
Author Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet USA The reasons for Big Oil’s (now more accurately Big Energy’s) focus on fisheries – and on demonizing fishing and fisher- men – has been fairly obvious since a coalition of fishermen and environmentalists successfully stopped energy exploration on Georges Bank in the early 80s. Using a handful of ocean oriented… Continue reading “Fish Wars” or a Regime Shift in Ocean Governance?
By TONY CARNIE. Originally published in Daily Maverick. For the fifth year in a row, South Africa is set to record a grisly killing rate of more than 1,000 rhinos poached each year (nearly three rhinos each day).The latest statistics – the first official information released by government in six months – show that at… Continue reading Poaching: SA heads for 1,000 rhino killings for the fifth year in a row
FOREWORD by Dr Peter Oberem – President of Wildlife Ranching South Africa (WRSA) “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” Winston Churchill said. His adage those who care, that there is no longer any more room or time left for mistakes. The very existence of the species is under serious… Continue reading RhinoAlive.com
By Michael EUSTACE I am writing this on the banks of the Bua River in Malawi. There were Black Rhino here in the 1960s. The only record of a White Rhino having occurred in Malawi was one shot on the Bua in 1896 and the horn, on an inscribed silver base, was recently on auction… Continue reading RHINO HORN TRADE
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