April 2013

Commercial trade in polar bears : not cultural, not subsistence, not necessary

April 27, 2013 / CITES & International Treaties, Other Species, Politics and Wildlife, Trophy hunting / Leave a Comment

Can’t stand being a commodity The more I read about the recent defeat of the joint USA/Russian Federation proposal to uplist Polar Bears to CITES Appendix I (highly restricted international trade), the more convinced I become that this decision was politically motivated, was not based on any economic or cultural benefit to the native Inuit […]

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Canned lion hunting in South Africa – reaction by the SA press

April 24, 2013 / Canned Hunting/Captive Breeding / Leave a Comment

Bow hunting of lions lives on in South Africa An article today appeared in the South African newspaper “Beeld” concerning a video (Warning: graphic animal cruelty) of a bow hunter shooting the young female lion from the back of a vehicle. As the article is in Afrikaans, I have translated some of it here: “A

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Badger culls : Government intransigence, reasonable farmers

April 19, 2013 / Genetics, Wildlife Diseases / Leave a Comment

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead On April 17 we attended a very interesting meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conservation and Wildlife to discuss the issue of badger culling and bovine tuberculosis. The panel consisted of Adam Quinney (Vice President, National Farmers Union), Sir Jim Paice MP and former farming Minister, Simon King

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Do badgers spread Bovine tuberculosis to cattle?

April 16, 2013 / Wildlife Diseases / Leave a Comment

It wasn’t us Sadly, given the plans by the UK Government to cull many thousands of badgers in further trials to determine whether removing badgers lessens the occurrence of Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle, it appears the epidemiology of this disease is still not well understood. Badgers are regarded as a maintenance host and a

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Lion trophy hunting – cost/benefit wins over ethics

April 16, 2013 / Canned Hunting/Captive Breeding, Trophy hunting / Leave a Comment

Big trophy, good price, no sweat The good news is that trophy hunting numbers (when comparing the last five year period 2002-2006 to the most recent five year period 2007-2011) have decreased for wild lions in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The bad news is that “trophy” hunting of captive bred lions (“canned hunting”) in South Africa

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Rhino poaching in Kruger National Park – connivance, RENAMO and Marenge diamonds?

April 12, 2013 / Illegal Wildlife Trade, Other Species, Poaching, Politics and Wildlife / Leave a Comment

We’re back… We are all aware of the ever-increasing levels of rhino poaching in South Africa, but the reasons might be much more complicated than we think – we might have to make connections with diamond mining in Zimbabwe and the former Mozambican rebel group RENAMO. This was revealed in a thought-provoking article by Brian

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More news on the poor inbred white lion cub

April 7, 2013 / Zoos / Leave a Comment

Why was I born? Further to our announcement on the 4th April about the scandalous inbreeding of white lions at Paradise Wildlife Park in Hertfordshire, an article was published in today’s Sunday Times (7th April 2013) entitled “Inbred” white lion cub puts cat among pigeons” (subscription required to read the full article). In this article

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Thumbing their noses at CITES – Zimbabwe’s ivory trade

April 5, 2013 / CITES & International Treaties, Illegal Wildlife Trade, Other Species / Leave a Comment

It has been going on for a while….. Few people realize that it is perfectly legal to buy ivory carvings in a number of countries – like South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, China, Thailand and Japan. The problem is, once you have bought it, you cannot export it. Well, except if you buy it in Zimbabwe

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Scandalous inbreeding of white lions at Paradise Wildlife Park

April 4, 2013 / Genetics, Zoos / Leave a Comment

Please find below our latest Press Release: Charities denounce inbred white lion programme at Paradise Wildlife Park. Two leading animal protection charities, the Captive Animals’ Protection Society and LionAid, have criticised a major UK zoo for its continued programme of inbreeding big cats to create unusually-coloured animals. Spokespeople for the two organisations say that there

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Africa’s elephants are not a commodity.

April 1, 2013 / CITES & International Treaties, Illegal Wildlife Trade, Other Species / Leave a Comment

Ivory should only be worn by elephants A blog by Anthony Stevenson Wanguru Ruoro From time to time LionAid invites guest bloggers to post their opinions on current issues. Anthony Rouro is a Kenyan currently living in Sweden. Introduction Is there any hope for the fate of the African elephant ? It may be time

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April 2013

April 2013

Commercial trade in polar bears : not cultural, not subsistence, not necessary

Canned lion hunting in South Africa – reaction by the SA press

Badger culls : Government intransigence, reasonable farmers

Do badgers spread Bovine tuberculosis to cattle?

Lion trophy hunting – cost/benefit wins over ethics

Rhino poaching in Kruger National Park – connivance, RENAMO and Marenge diamonds?

More news on the poor inbred white lion cub

Thumbing their noses at CITES – Zimbabwe’s ivory trade

Scandalous inbreeding of white lions at Paradise Wildlife Park

Africa’s elephants are not a commodity.

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