Diagram Beneficiaries of Rhino Poaching

By Rodney Genricks. The diagram was developed for the express purpose of making people aware of who the beneficiaries were in a sustainable way and what is destroying our rhino and wildlife in a unsustainable manner.  View as PDF:

‘NOT GOING EXTINCT’: Court documents claim Canadian polar bear population is thriving

In this file photo taken on November 13, 2007 a polar bear walks in the snow near the Hudson Bay outside Churchill, Mantioba, Canada. PHOTO BY PAUL J. RICHARDS /AFP/Getty Images

By Aidan Wallace. Originally published in the Toronto Sun. The polar bear population is increasing according to federal affidavits submitted by Inuit groups, Blacklock’s Reporter reports. “Inuit have not noticed a significant decline in the health of the polar bears,” the director of wildlife management for the Nunavik Marine Region Wildlife Board wrote in a court affidavit.… Continue reading ‘NOT GOING EXTINCT’: Court documents claim Canadian polar bear population is thriving

Outside the Frame: Looking Beyond the Myth of Garamba’s LRA Ivory–Terrorism Nexus

By Kristof Titeca and Patrick Edmond. Originally published in Conservation and Society. Abstract There have been widespread reports of elephant poaching by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Garamba National Park (GNP) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), presenting a narrative that ivory poaching funds terror and that both can be solved by… Continue reading Outside the Frame: Looking Beyond the Myth of Garamba’s LRA Ivory–Terrorism Nexus

Trade in rhino and tiger products might well save the species

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

Opinion: Animal rights corporations’ attacks on Faroe Islands and Canada are a labyrinth of lies

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

EU, BRITISH AND AMERICAN SEALING POLICY IS HYPOCRITICAL AND ANTI- DEMOCRATIC

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

New rhino conservation approach

Rhinos being bred by John Hume Conservancy

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

Poaching: SA heads for 1,000 rhino killings for the fifth year in a row

Frikkie Rossouw, of the SANParks’ Environmental Crime Investigations Unit, prepares the carcass of a rhino killed for its horn for postmortem, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 04 February 2015. EPA/SALYM FAYAD

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

RhinoAlive.com

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

RHINO HORN TRADE

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