June 2012

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June 2012

Performance is the best means of evaluation

Conservation has undoubtedly become big business – there are literally thousands of conservation groups, and the biggest of them have hundreds of employees and many offices all over the world. Top executives earn six figure salaries, the organisations have very slick marketing departments, and their acronyms are now household words. Being non-profit organisations, they are […]

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South Africa continues to obfuscate lion export records

Obfuscation means to “render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible”. And that label clearly applies to South Africa’s CITES lion export records, and in fairness, also pertains to the CITES trade record website maintained by UNEP and WCMC. Let me explain. 1. South Africa, from 2000 to 2009, exported a total of 2651 “wild” lion trophies to

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