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UK trophy hunting import ban not supported by rural Africans – Mongabay Commentary

Resource Africa Feb 12, 2022 0 Comments

UK trophy hunting import ban not supported by rural Africans - Mongabay While a UK bill to ban the import of hunting trophies enjoys popular support there, rural Africans directly affected by such decisions are voicing opposition. In an article submitted as a Commentary piece by community conservation practitioners and professionals in Namibia and published in Mongabay on February 11, 2022, the...

Why Africa needs a common stance at CITES

Resource Africa Dec 08, 2021 0 Comments

Why Africa needs a common stance at CITES The 19th Conference of Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES CoP19) is to be held in Panama, central America from 14 to 25 November, 2022. Pointing to the fact that African countries represented at CITES do not have a history of speaking with one voice on matters that pertains to its...

Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond – Nature, Ecology & Evolution 10-2020 Authors, Lindsey, Roe, Dickman et al

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Ethics of human-animal relationships lions bred for bones _ Animals Coals et al. 2019

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Communities are delivering conservation and wildlife recoveries – Africa Geographic. Author Fred Nelson 2020-01

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Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond – Nature Ecology and Evolution

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Are CITES bans driving up demand for wildlife products?

Resource Africa Nov 17, 2020 0 Comments

An in-depth feature in Knowable Magazine by Natasha Gilbert reports that scientists and wildlife trade experts worry CITES bans may be backfiring by driving up demand, arguing the convention is meant to help ensure wildlife trade meets people's needs while also safeguarding nature. Two examples of trade bans on wildlife and one on a plant species that saw an increase rather than decrease of...

Lion bones weighing 342 kg seized at OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg

Resource Africa Jun 03, 2020 0 Comments

Summary: The BBC reported on 4th October, 2019 that South African officials had seized 342kg (754lb) of lion bones and arrested three people at Johannesburg airport in South Africa, the environment ministry said. The bones, which are prized in Asia for supposed medicinal benefits and to make jewellery, were destined for Malaysia. The 12 boxes of lion bones wrapped in aluminium foil were...

COVID-19: wildlife trade and communities: a selection of recently published articles

Resource Africa May 24, 2020 0 Comments

We are sharing some links to recent COVID-19 related news articles and papers recommended in the IUCN SULi Digest March and April 2020 Edition. Some of these articles also appear as blogs on our blog page Wildlife trade and trade bans Despite COVID-19, using wild species may still be the best way to save them by Dilys Roe Wildlife trade: Regulated markets involving local communities,...

Wildlife trade in Mexico, conservation, and pandemics

Resource Africa May 24, 2020 0 Comments

As Mexico reels from the coronavirus (COVID-19) economic devastation and public health disaster, Vanda Felbab-Brown writes in a recently published article in brookings.edu, it also needs to rethink its relationship with nature. To prevent another zoogenic pandemic, it is crucial to preserve natural habitats; carefully monitor legal trade in wildlife; eliminate transmission points where the...