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South Africa: Animal Protection Group Urges SA to Scrap Trophy Hunting
News24Wire, 10 August 2015
A global animal protection organisation has written to environmental ministers in South Africa and Namibia to urge them to abandon trophy hunting. Read more »
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Africa: South Africa Defends Regulated Hunting
Al Jazeera, 7 August 2015
A recent decision by international airlines to ban the transport of animal trophies will damage South Africa's economy, the government has said. Read more »
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South Africa: 10 Consequences of Banning Trophy Hunting in SA
News24Wire, 5 August 2015
South Africa will take a hard economic knock should there be a total ban on trophy hunting, according to Prof Peet van der Merwe from the North-West University. Read more »
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South Africa: South Africa Debates Hunting Captive-Bred Lions
Al Jazeera, 5 August 2015
In the aftermath of the anger that followed the killing of Cecil, the lion from Zimbabwe, debate is intensifying in neighbouring South Africa over the practice of hunting… Read more »
Group Urges South Africa to Scrap Trophy Hunting
The Humane Society International has called on environmental ministers in South Africa and Namibia to embrace non-consumptive ecotourism.
A number of airlines have stepped up and banned the transportation of lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies outright (file photo).
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Zimbabwe 's environment minister has called for the extradition of Walter Palmer, the trophy hunter from Minnesota who has gone into hiding amid a global outpouring of anger after ... Read more »
