South Africa’s new biodiversity economy strategy aims to make the benefits from biodiversity available to more people.
Hayley Clements
The strategy aims to conserve biodiversity while also contributing to the creation of jobs and economic growth.
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Lion protection fees paid by tourists could pave the way for a responsible transition away from trophy hunting without affecting the communities that rely on hunting revenue.
A white rhino in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
Enrico Di Minin
To what extent should the costs of protecting globally valued rhinos be carried by their local custodians?
A large African male lion in a game reserve at night.
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Bans on importing hunting trophies risk harming, not helping, endangered species.
Over the past 25 years, lion numbers have decreased by 43% throughout Africa, as their range has declined by more than 90%.
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An Africa-based conservation expert explains why trophy hunting has not delivered for wildlife in most parts of Africa, and that local communities benefit next to nothing from its continued practice
Moving surplus rhinos to set up new populations, and hunting small numbers of males encourages population growth and range expansion.
Michael 't Sas-Rolfes
Legal hunting helps rhino conservation for biological and socio-economic reasons.
African elephant being hunted.
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To many of us trophy hunting is repellent. But here’s a look at why killing wild animals might be pleasurable to some.
In some African countries, lion trophy hunting is legal.
Riaan van den Berg
March 2, 2021
Enrico Di Minin , University of Helsinki ; Anna Haukka , University of Helsinki ; Anna Hausmann , University of Helsinki ; Christoph Fink , University of Helsinki ; Corey J. A. Bradshaw , Flinders University ; Gonzalo Cortés-Capano , University of Helsinki ; Hayley Clements , Stellenbosch University , and Ricardo Correia , University of Helsinki
Debates centred on the role of recreational hunting in supporting nature conservation and local people’s livelihoods are among the most polarising in conservation today.
Before the trophy hunting ban, Botswana specialised in big game such as elephants, buffalos and leopards.
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How communities in Botswana are counting the costs of a trophy hunting ban.
With tourism revenue drying up due to COVID-19, the debate surrounding trophy hunting of wildlife species like African lions is more relevant now than before.
Alex Braczkowski
A new study evaluates what South African landowners who run trophy hunting operations would do in the event of a hunting ban.
Game farms in South Africa often supply the canned hunting sector.
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Private game farming isn’t being managed in a socially or environmentally sustainable way.
Cecil the lion, before he was a trophy.
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A green criminologist weighs up the evidence.
Elephants in the Kwedi Area of the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
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In light of Botswana’s decision to allow trophy hunting again, new evidence suggests elephant poaching has been on the rise.
Splashing in the Zambezi River at Botswana’s Chobe National Park.
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Lifting the trophy hunting moratorium in Botswana is more about politics and less about elephant conservation.
Photographic camps are more beneficial to communities than hunting.
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Trophy hunting is not the solution to Africa’s wildlife conservation challenges. There are other ways.
Elephants in Namibia.
Niki Rust
Few people could argue that hunting wildlife for trophies is moral, but conservationists have bigger fish to fry to reverse biodiversity loss
Buffalo in the Kruger National Park, South Africa.
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The economic, social and conservation reasons why hunting remains relevant in southern Africa.
A grizzly bear looks up from its meal in British Columbia.
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Wildlife hunts are supposed to be grounded in sound science, but new research casts doubt on this assumption.
The mane attraction.
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Computer models have produced some very worrying results.
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The Trump administration is considering requests from hunters to import wildlife trophies (body parts) on a case-by-case basis. Does this approach promote conservation or threaten endangered species?