Over the past few years, Ban Animal Trading and the EMS Foundation have been conducting extensive investigation and research into South Africa’s trade in live wild animals, publishing their results in The Extinction Business Investigative Report Series.
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Wildlife ranchers have accused Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Dion George of “hiding behind a process of his own making” by failing to set and allocate annual trophy hunting quotas for African elephants, black rhinos and leopards.
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The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction.
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Every month, Facebook attracts 2.89 billion active users. Every minute there are hundreds of thousands of comments and status updates. Each could be discussing anything, including extremist views, or the sale of endangered wildlife across continents.
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The classification of giraffes has proved surprisingly contentious over the past few decades.
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Culling, hunting and quick-fix solutions dominate policy talk, but without reliable national figures on human-elephant conflict, South Africa risks sacrificing both elephants and communities to politics and profit.
