At CITES 1989 the delegates were told that it would cost US $ 200 per square kilometer to protect Africa’s elephants in their natural... »
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CAMPFIRE Program in Zimbabwe.
Elephant populations once extended over most of Africa, including what is now the Sahara desert. Today they are confined to sub-Saharan Africa where they occupy a total area of around five million sq kilometers. Their range is rapidly diminishing in the face of an exploding human population desperate for more and more land. International... »
Tembo: Use or Lose
The next Conference of the Parties to CITES (COP 15) takes place in Doha, Qatar from 13-25 March 2010. The governments of Tanzania and Zambia have each submitted a proposal, for consideration at this meeting, that the elephant be down-listed from Appendix I to Appendix II within their countries, as both populations no longer... »
Down listing of elephant from CITES Appendix I to Appendix II
What was the rationale behind the formation of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) in 1975? In short CITES is an international, voluntarily agreement between countries (or parties) the aims of which are to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does... »
Stephen Mayes Botswana Safari
Stephen Mayes from Franklin, Kentucky traveled to Botswana with his fiance Nancy to hunt a trophy elephant bull with professional hunter Ronnie Crouse of Johan Calitz Safaris. The Mababe concession, which is situated on the edge of the Okavango Delta, would be their hunting grounds. Watch the full length video below. »
African Sporting Gazette, Safari Newsreel.
In conjunction with the African Sporting Gazette, we at the Osprey Filming Company are excited to introduce an innovative new product: African Sporting Gazette’s Safari Newsreel, which was launched with the October 2009 issue. ASG Safari Newsreel is an action-packed DVD, which features a number of different programs including: Country profile. An overview of... »
Tokoloshe the African gremlin?
Anyone from Africa, particularly southern Africa will be familiar with the tokoloshe and even those who scoff at its existence will have their beds elevated on bricks just to be sure that the dwarf like tokoloshe can’t reach them while they sleep. The current joke in South Africa is about Skulk Burger, one of... »
Welcome to Safari Newsreel
Welcome to Safari Newsreel: Voice of the Hunter. The principal aim of Safari Newsreel is to recognize and promote conservation through utilization as well as provide entertainment, education, opinion, news, activism and interaction for the visitor to the website. The conservation through utilization message has to be broadcasted to the general public in... »