It has been colder this year in the Arctic, especially in Southern Beaufort Sea where the bear were reported to be fat, and in Western Hudson Bay, which had the coldest summer in recorded history. So much for weather forecasting. All the while Conservation Force’s three lawsuits moved forward. Now there will be a... »

Second Hand Lions is a great movie about the redemption a young boy brings to the lives of two old and crotchety ex-adventurers.  In the plot the elderly duo buy a mangy, broken down circus lion that they plan to release and “hunt” on their Kansas back-forty. After discovering the lion doesn’t have any... »

The young as well as the old sportsman ought to adhere to the rules of sport, and to treat his brother sportsmen with consideration and fairness. He will be taught this in the partridge fields at home; but there are certain rules in connection with big game shooting that he ought to know. To draw... »

The Ostrich foot tribe – is there such a thing? It sounds a bit ‘mutant ninja turtleish’, but there is in fact a tribe of people living in isolation in the rugged refuge of the Zambezi escarpment in Zimbabwe; living off the land and fleeing at the sight of any intruder. A number of... »

I have gone to some trouble to explain why I believe animal rights-ism represents the biggest single danger to wildlife in Africa. And it pains me to see how the people of the media – always in search of gross sensationalism – give the animal rightists so much positive exposure. I also cannot understand... »

Conservation Force is contesting trophy seizures and forfeitures in Federal District Courts from San Francisco and Los Angeles to New York. The first claims we filed were over four different leopard seizures in San Francisco that have evolved into three different federal court cases.  As we feared, the government has taken the legal position... »

  The topic of leopard hunting has always been shrouded in controversy with the most common arguments revolving around the ethics of baiting, hunting from a blind, using hounds and hunting at night with the use of a spot light. It is difficult to apply the same rules to leopard hunting in general as... »

Natives living in very small communities, in wild districts where game being still abundant, lions also are consequently fairly numerous, are often troubled at night by these animals. In such cases a man-eating lion usually proves to be an old and almost worn-out beast, which having grown too weak to catch and kill its... »

Have you ever been out in the bush dying for a cup of tea or coffee and realize that no-one packed the kettle? It’s a disaster, especially since when you can’t have something the yearning becomes even greater. Here is a solution that was shown to me by Pete Swanepoel’s trackers when we were... »

 ”On July 27″‘, 2006, The Economist newspaper in the United Kingdom, under the banner “The public mood turns against animal activists”, reported :- “CAMPAIGNERS for animal rights are losing their long war against scientific experimentation on animals. Public sympathy for the cause is leaching away as the well-publicised antics of a violent few taint the... »