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Looking for snares is not always an easy task, but aerial help in the form of circling vultures can assist. Vultures spot animals caught in snares from a great height and can lead anti-poaching teams to the site. Poachers know this and often poison animal carcasses to kill vultures to

Professional hunter Fico Vidale and his team, with a government game scout, caught an armed poacher on the Katanga Plateau on the northern border of the Kafue National Park in Zambia. The poacher was stalking a large herd of buffalo. The local village gunsmith had fashioned the stock. The barrel

A 2016 paper by Joseph Ogutu, Senior Statistician University of Hohenheim et al., noted that over the past four decades, populations of almost all the common wildlife species in Kenya have fallen to one-third or less of their previous levels. https://shrturl.app/sWNoJm Concurrently, livestock numbers, most notably sheep

The United States Endangered Species Act identifies five factors that must be considered when determining whether a species should be listed "threatened" or "endangered" They are: 1. the present or threatened destruction, modification, or curtailment of the species' habitat or range; 2. overutilization for commercial,

The market for leopard skins seriously threatens the conservation of the species across Africa. There is a difference between the retaliatory poaching of livestock-killing leopards and commercial poaching. But sometimes, the line becomes blurry. The Isisbaya Leopard Conservation Project in the Matopos region of Zimbabwe hopes to mitigate the effects

By Zig Mackintosh What are the overall objectives of the animal rights movement? We get that they don't like any form of wildlife utilization, but they don't like animal husbandry that much, either. What if they had to choose between the two? An interesting paper by

Conservation has been a key objective of SA Hunters since its inception in 1949, and the Association has evolved into a locally and internationally respected organization that supports an integrated and rational approach to conservation. SA Hunters members from across South Africa are an active, integral part of their society