Conservation Action Trust

Interview with Dr Audrey Delsink from Humane World for Animals in Die Papier newspaper on the use of immunocontraception as an effective, non-lethal alternative to culling elephants.

Article available in Die Papier issue of 28 Augu...

An Africa Geographic investigation into the elephant culling debate unfolding in South Africa’s Associated Private Nature Reserves (APNR).

Scientists argue elephant impacts depend more on movement than overall population size. Artificial waterholes concentrate elephants, intensifying local damage to vulnerable tree species. Research suggests managing el...

Every year, tens of thousands of wild animals around the world are killed by trophy hunters, primarily to obtain body parts as trophies, including full-body mounts, tusks, horns and skins. The rarer the species, the higher the price hunters may be willing to pay to kill them.

Trophy hunters even target endangered and strictly protected species, including elephants and ...

The organisations say the slow pace of implementation is leaving the industry largely operational and the fate of captive lions uncertain.

South Africa’s commercial captive lion breeding industry remains legal and largely operational more than five years after the government committed to phasing it out.

The conservation and animal welfare organisations say t...

The renewed Madikwe elephant controversy raises a question extending far beyond culling. When a senior SANParks scientist speaks of economic opportunities arising from elephants selected for killing, we need to examine the philosophy of conservation behind the statement.

There was a revealing moment before Parliament this week when the increasingly controversial manage...