Researchers Katherine Scholfield and Dan Brockington, from Newcastle University and the University of Manchester respectively, have compiled a very interesting research paper, Non-Governmental Organisations and African Wildlife Conservation: A Preliminary Analysis. The full report can be downloaded from this webpage: http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research/africanwildlife/ Below is the conclusion of their findings. Conclusion In this paper we have... »

The delegates from NON-range states have absolutely NO idea about the REAL circumstances of the animals and/or the plants that are the subjects of the debates. The Secretariat does its best to provide everybody with pertinent information but in reality, 90% of the delegates are asked to vote on matters about which they have... »

The markhor in the Torghar Hills Conservation Project in Pakistan is another example. It is a world-renown, award-winning program that has restored those markhor from 200 to more than 2,000 through conservation hunting. At CITES CoP 10, the Parties created a quota for the markhor to facilitate the export-import of the trophies. The Pakistan... »

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... »

The Namibia Professional Hunting Association (NAPHA) has informed you about the circumstances that lead to the suspension of issuing leopard and cheetah trophy hunting permits in Namibia. NAPHA also informed you that we recommended to the Ministry of Environment & Tourism (MET) to impose a moratorium on the issuing of leopard and cheetah Trophy... »

I remember even today, and with perfect distinctness, though I have not seen it for many years, a certain picture in Gordon Cumming’s well-known book on African hunting, and the fearful fascination it always had for me when I was a small boy. That picture represented a great gaunt lion in the act of... »

When the African elephant was uplisted to CITES Appendix I, the USF&WS would not issue the required import permits. Worse, it treated the processing of the import permit application as a “low priority.” Suit had to be filed to establish import of elephant from Namibia, RSA and Tanzania. The USF&WS end-rounded that success under... »

Ecologic and Economic Benefits of Hunting WINDHOEK, Namibia–The World Symposium on The Ecologic and Economic Benefits of Hunting, held on 14-17 September 2009, was organized and hosted by the World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities. More than 60 representatives from 20 countries attended. The primary purpose was to exchange the latest... »

The purpose of CITES is to REGULATE international trade in those populations of wild animals and wild plants, and their products, that can easily endure a sustainable harvest. Its purpose is also to seriously restrict, or to ban, trade in those populations of plants and animals that CANNOT so easily endure such a harvest.... »

Many of the ideas and conclusions put forward by the authors may not meet with the approval of perhaps older and more experienced sportsmen, but at the same time they are the result of experience, and differences of opinion concerning the habits of animals arise between most sportsmen, no two holding exactly the same... »