Conservation Action Trust news updates

6 December 2016 | iafrica.com | Andreas Wilson-Späth| FREE TO PUBLISH CREDIT CAT

A file image of a jackal. Credit: pixabay.com   Draft legislation proposes cruel and unethical methods for dealing with problem wild animals, including the use of poison, hunting dogs, gin traps as well as extermination in their burrows by flooding them with  toxic gas. These methods are often indiscriminate, causing the deaths of many other animals. … Full Story ?

5 December 2016 | TakePart | Richard Conniff |

(Photo: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images) Though China has earned much of the blame for the massive slaughter of elephants across Africa over the past decade, Japan has been an equal partner in this continuing environmental crime—and a stubbornly determined one. When delegates to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species voted in October … Full Story ?

1 December 2016 | Traveller24 | Selene Brophy |

Cape Town – South Africa’s waters are rich with ocean wildlife but it won’t stay that way if our mapped marine protected areas are ignored – as was the case in the Paulsberg Marine Protected Area, part of the Table Mountain National park on the False Bay coast recently. According to wildlife and conservation photographer … Full Story ?

3 December 2016 | The Japan Times | Philip Brasor |

In October, a new documentary produced by Leonardo DiCaprio premiered on Netflix. “The Ivory Game” is a dramatic study of the illegal trade in elephant tusks that includes conservationists battling poachers, investigative journalists following the money trail and black market merchants in China. Experts say if the killing of African elephants continues apace, the species … Full Story ?

4 December 2016 | OFM | Don Pinnock | FREE TO PUBLISH CREDIT CAT

People around the world celebrate cheetahs annually on 4 December. These beautiful animals have paced and graced human existence for thousands of years. There are not many of them left and it’s a good time to take stock. In South Africa the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) estimates there to be about 700 free-roaming 600 in … Full Story ?

30 November 2016 | Namibian Sun | Jana-Mari Smith |

Contact details provided on an application for exports of live marine animals to China have led to millionaire Jack Huang’s Sun Investment Group in Windhoek. FISHY: The fact that the fisheries ministry is dragging its feet on making a decision has raised suspicions about the application to export live marine animals. PHOTO: CONTRIBUTED Telephone calls … Full Story ?