Author: David Cook
Milestone No:3 – The Rhino Horn Auction. By David Cook.
Topping the public interest barometer – if content on social media is anything to go by- was the online auction of legal horn in August by John Hume. Administrative bungling on the part of a DEA w... Read More
Emotion Versus Intelligence. By David Cook.
No matter the situation never let your emotions overpower your intelligence. ( Anon) In my last article I touched on Theresa May’s political maxim on the need to be ever mindful of the need to refle... Read More
Theresa May and African Wildlife Policy – Philosophical Bedfellows? By David Cook.
What does British Prime Minister Theresa May’s politics have in common with African wildlife conservation, in particular rhino and elephant conservation? Such being the polar distance between the tw... Read More
The Last Throw of the Dice. By David Cook.
In the wake of the brazen killing of a captive white rhino cow and calf within , of all places , the holding bomas at the head quarters of Ezemvelo’s game capture operations in Zululand in May 2017 ... Read More
CITES and the Fate of Africa’s Rhino.
As expected, Swazilands brave proposal for permission to sell its stockpile of 330kgs. of legal rhino horn i.e. horn recovered over many years from natural mortalities , was roundly defeated at the re... Read More
The Facts Around Dr. Ian Player’s Stance on Rhino Horn Trade
I thought I would clarify the whole saga around rhino ranching, Ian Players position on that topic and on the whole subject of legalization of trade in horn, and how he came to play a key role in the ... Read More
Ted Reilly: New Patron of The Conservation Imperative.
Ted Reilly, doyen of wildlife conservation and Head of the Kingdom of Swaziland’s Big Game Parks has formally accepted our invitation to become a patron of The Conservation Imperative alongside... Read More
Farm me don’t harm me.
St. Anne’s Dioscesan College for Girls in Hilton, KZN on Saturday 13 June 2015, became what is believed to be the first school in South Africa to actively take up the fight for a regulated trade in ... Read More
A response to McCullum Statement at UCT “Wildlife in Crisis” conference.
A shorter version of this article was published in the Cape Times on Tuesday 2 June 2015. During question time, following a presentation by Dr. John Hanks at the recent conference “Wildlife in Crisi... Read More- 2 of 3
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