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 […]

OPEN LETTER: Celebrity campaigns undermine successful conservation and human rights

DSC supports the dozens of community leaders who wrote to anti-hunting U.K. celebrities on behalf of millions of people across southern Africa to stop undermining their globally recognized conservation efforts and their basic human right to sustainably use the natural resources on which their communities’ livelihoods depend. Read the full letter below.

The Danger of a Sentimental Ban

The Government’s proposal to ban the UK importing and exporting hunting trophies has caused much concern to those of us who live with wild animals and shoulder the financial burden of conserving them and their habitat. If enacted, it won’t just stop British hunters traveling abroad for a legal licensed hunt in another country – […]