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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?
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
By Tanya Jacobsen. Originally published on RhinoAlive.com. Rhinos throughout South Africa are being brutally killed for their horns. In this article, I would like to focus on some of the positive contributions by the private (non-governmental) sector and the trials and tribulations that they face in trying to keep rhinos safe. This article follows our… Continue reading Rah-rah for rhino reserves!
By Emmanuel Koro. Originally published on the THE CITIZEN NEWSPAPER. Those who take rhino conservation very seriously must rethink if the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) international ban on rhino horn is really working. About a week ago, eight rhinos were poached in iMfolozi Game Reserve… Continue reading International rhino horn trade ban failing stop poaching
Originally published on RhinoAlive.com. Hello We often meet people who have gathered perspectives on the rhino poaching situation primarily from press articles or friends and Facebook groups. We would like to offer an overview of the rhino crisis from our own perspective, with facts and figures that clearly demonstrate how the ban on trade has… Continue reading Overview of the rhino crisis & ivory auctions vs rhino horn sales
Author Nils Stolpe/FishNet USA Choking On Good Intentions In multispecies fisheries, regulators must distinguish between stocks that are truly threatened or endangered and those that are simply fished harder than would be optimal on a single-species basis. It may be best to not try to rebuild some overfished stocks (so long as they do not… Continue reading Fisheries are choking on good(?) intentions
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