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Elephant trophy auction covers for opening bushmeat trade

February 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Global warming intensifies pressure to profit from wildlife before habitat loss depletes species GABERONE,  Botswana;  HARARE,  Zimbabwe;  DAR ES SALAAM,  Tanzania––Big as they are,  the 60 elephants whose lives were auctioned at Bobonong Kgotla,  Botswana on February 7,  2020 may be the least of the casualties from attempts by the governments of Botswana and Tanzania […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, African wildlife, Botswana, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Meat issues, Sub-Saharan, Tanzania, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Antony Sguazzin, Boniface Keakabetse, Cyril Zenda, Dereck Joubert, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Merritt Clifton, Mokgweetsi Masisi, Tinashe Farawo

Elephants, giraffes, sharks, Asian otters & seahorses fare well in Switzerland

August 28, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

African elephants win protection near where exports for display began             GENEVA, Switzerland––Live elephant exports from Africa for exhibition at least nominally ended by plenary vote at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Triennial Conference of the Parties on August 27,  2019 in Geneva,  Switzerland,  about 200 miles north from where the […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Botswana, China, Conservation, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Food & agriculture, Gabon, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Japan, Kenya, Laws, Marine life, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Poaching & trafficking, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zimbabwe, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Hannibal Barca, Merritt Clifton, Nina Larson, Tom De Meulenaer

Feds must hide names of hunters who kill for show, rules Trump appointee

August 27, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Brave enough to shoot a cage-raised lion,  but not enough to face the public             WASHINGTON,  D.C.––Ruling that trophy hunters’ right to privacy trumps the public right to know what animals they kill,  even though the goal of trophy hunting is showing off,  U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly on August 19,  2019 ruled that the […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Poaching & trafficking, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Tanzania, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Blake Owen Fischer, David Bernhardt, Donald Trump, Guy Gorney, Jimmy John Liautaud, Judge Timothy Kelly, Larysa Switlyk, Merritt Clifton, Mike Jines, Ryan Zinke, Tess Thompson Talley, Walter Palmer

Botswana,  please rethink resuming hunting! by Sebastian Mwanza

May 27, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Ian Khama,  former president of Botswana,  resigns from ruling party when successor undoes ban on trophy hunting Editor’s note:  Outraged and disappointed that his handpicked successor Mokgweetsi Masisi had ended a five-year-old ban on trophy hunting,  Ian Khama,  president of Botswana from 2008 to 2018,  on May 25,  2019 resigned from the Botswana Democratic Party […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, African wildlife, Botswana, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Laws, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Tanzania, Wildlife Tagged With: Don Pinnock, Ian Khama, Kahindi Lekahaile, Kitso Mokaila, Mokgweetsi Masisi, Paula Kahumbu, Ron Thomson

“Ivory queen” sentence helps to sell “real estate” deal in Tanzania

February 26, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

366 settlements on “protected land” to become incorporated villages––and “dam the Rufigi River” goes full speed ahead             DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania––Resolving a case pending since September 2015,  and ruling at a politically opportune time for Tanzanian president John Magufuli,  Kisutu Court magistrate Huruma Shaidi on February 19,  2019 sentenced reputed “Ivory Queen” Yang Feng […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, China, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Poaching & trafficking, Sub-Saharan, Tanzania, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Adam C. Stein, Brennan Peterson Wood, Fumbuka Ng’wanakilala, John Magufuli, Medard Kalemani, Merritt Clifton, Yang Feng Glan

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