Category: African Wildlife Conservation
No Pride in Prejudice – Continued, Concocted Cecil the Lion Claims
What’s the difference between African lions and the anti-hunting media? The former spends most of its time lying in repose, whereas the latter spends most of its time lying in its prose. ... Read More
Superiority Complex
On 15 December 2022, the Born Free Foundation (BFF) held an event in the UK called Beyond Trophy Hunting. Will Travers, their executive president, stated this presentation of alternatives to trophy hu... Read More
Winning the Hearts and Minds Battle with AI?
There is little doubt that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of modern life, like it or not. Chatbots are software programs designed to simulate human conversation, often using ... Read More
Citizen Hunter: The Story of SA Hunters
From its humble beginnings in 1949, when 50 hunters met in a coffee shop in the Pretoria Zoo when there seemed no hope for the future of wildlife in South Africa, SA Hunters and Game Conservation Asso... Read More
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
The Humane Society is notorious for its “surveys” about public sentiment around hunting. A 2017 poll, they claim, shows deep and widespread opposition to trophy hunting (suspiciously that pag... Read More
Masses of Murders
How ironic that one of the most invasive species on the planet, the house crow, Corvus splendens, is inextricably dependent on the presence of another of the world’s most impactful – human... Read More
Tit for Tat-A Kitty Funded By Captive Cats
On 5 July 2022, Jens Ulrik Hogh of the Nordic Safari Club debated with Will Travers, of the Born Free Foundation, on Sky News. Anti-hunting debaters typically claim that hunting isn... Read More
Wilderness as a Form of Landuse.
In the March 1966 edition of African Wildlife (The official magazine of the Wildlife Protection and Conservation Society of South Africa), John Pringle writes about the concept of wilderness areas bei... Read More