| More rhetoric from government won’t save rhino
SA Breaking News | 05 September, 2014 | Cindy Tilney | Free to Republish
In a Parliamentary debate on Tuesday on the rhino poaching crisis, government provided little hope for rhino as speaker after speaker lamented the rhino poaching statistics, repeating the same tired calls to save the rhino but giving few concrete proposals as to how this could be done. Little detail was provided on the promised introduction … Full Story ? |
| News Media, There’s a War on Elephants. Act Like It.
Saturday Star | 30 August, 2014 | Christina M Russo |
The slaughter of Africa’s elephants for their ivory is leaving a devastating number of casualties: some conservationists cite as many as 50,000 are being killed annually. It’s a full-on massacre. It’s a genocide, actually, if you are gutsy enough to call it what it is. Getting ivory from an elephant takes effort, and brutality. Poachers are … Full Story ? |
| Leakey’s Last Stand: The Final Battle of Africa’s Elephant King
Newsweek | 28 August, 2014 | Graham Boynton |
Richard Leakey has returned to the Masai Mara, and one of the first social calls he makes is to the local Maasai elders. He says it is traditional in African society that if a known elder – the Swahili word is mzee – travels into other elders’ territory, he should meet with them. “When I … Full Story ? |
| Rhino poaching takes toll on heritage tourism
Cape Argus | 03 September, 2014 | John Yeld |
Cape Town – President Jacob Zuma should directly engage the heads of South Africa’s neighbouring countries – especially Mozambique – to help bring an immediate end to rhino poaching, says former deputy environment minister Bantu Holomisa. Speaking during Tuesday’s parliamentary debate on rhino poaching and its impact on South Africa’s heritage, the UDM leader warned … Full Story ? |
| ‘Go after poaching kingpins’
Daily News | 01 September, 2014 | Noelene Barbeau |
The portfolio committee on environmental affairs is to provide Parliament with information on how to crack rhino poaching syndicates, its chairman, Jackson Mthembu, revealed on Sunday, saying the aim was to get “back to basics”. Speaking to the Daily News after a series of public meetings across the country, and in Hluhluwe and Durban at … Full Story ? |
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