Rhino industry insiders in the dock JOHANNESBURG––Startling photos of the September 22, 2010 arraignment of 11 alleged members of an international rhino poaching syndicate reached the world despite the officially unexplained efforts of police to keep photographers out. News photographers Werner Beukes of the South African Press Agency, Herman Verwey of Beeld, and Lewellyn Carstens […]
Gunfire no aphrodisiac for African elephants
Stress believed to suppress fertility HARARE, Zimbabwe (August 2006)––Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force founder Johnny Rodrigues and Presidential Elephant Conservation Project researcher Sharon Pincott contend that the stress associated with gunfire has actually suppressed elephant fecundity. This finding, if verified, would contradict other studies showing that wildlife populations tend to increase their fecundity under hunting pressure. Both coyotes […]
Evictions to clear a park in Ethiopia
New Scientist columnist accuses African Parks Foundation While land invasions and their aftermath destroy the remnants of wildlife protection in Zimbabwe, the African Parks Foundation has reportedly introduced to Ethiopia the heavy-handed relocation of longtime land occupants in the name of conservation that helped to create the pressures leading to the Zimbabwean debacle. “Ethiopia wants […]
Humane Society of the U.S. settles affairs without a Wills
by Merritt Clifton WASHINGTON, D.C.––Humane Society of the United States executive vice president Patricia Forkan is to assume authority over HSUS domestic operations effective on January 1, 1996. HSUS president Paul Irwin, now heading domestic operations, will move over to head the umbrella organization, Humane Society International, while current HSI president John Hoyt, 65, will […]