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NZ Hunting Organizations Express Dismay with Government Tahr Plan

In late June, various community stakeholders and hunters in New Zealand called for an injunction to stop Department of Conservation’s plan to cull all tahr in New Zealand National Parks. Although the injunction was granted in mid-July, the resulting Tahr Control Operation Plan has not reflected the science-backed policies that were already established in the […]

Fighting Back

[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://www.biggame.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/dscf.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Article by Richard Cheatham, DSC Foundation Executive Director. Richard has been involved in the outdoors since his youth and has since hunted across the U.S. and southern Africa, in addition to representing DSC across the globe alongside major professional hunting associations, NGOs and outfitters and guides. This article originally ran in the […]

British Government Warned Against Causing African Wildlife Conservation Crisis

[author]  [author_info] Article and Photos by Emmanuel Koro, a Johannesburg-based international award-winning journalist who has written extensively on environment and development issues in Africa for the past 26 years.[/author_info] [/author] By Emmanuel Koro Johannesburg, 22 July 2020     Observers worldwide are appalled by the proposed British Government anti-trophy hunting imports Bill.   They are […]

Potential California Ban on Alligator and Crocodile Products Threatens Conservation

California is the only state that intends to prohibit the sale of alligator or crocodile products under an out-dated Penal Code. The ban’s origin dates back to 1967 when there was concern that the American alligator and other species of crocodiles were at risk of extinction. California responded with a law to protect the animal that included […]