July 1, 2020 In Editorial, Featured, July 2020-Volume 2-3, Op-Eds By Natasha Illum Berg

Will We Conquer the Virus of Fear and Inertia, One Fine Day?

By Natasha Illum Berg

READ TIME 8 MINS

A professional hunter notes that the current pandemic harbors immense threats for wildlife and wild lands in Africa, and for those businesses with nature at their core. Are we able to seize the opportunities arising in the wake of COVID-19, to safeguard the remaining pockets of wild Africa and create a new understanding for conservationist hunting?READ MORE

Cartoon from Peter Flack’s blog (reproduced with permission)
January 1, 2020 In Conservation & Wildlife Management, Editorial, January 2020 - Volume II-1, News from the Regions By Gerhard R. Damm with remarks by Peter H. Flack

South Africa regulates the ‘improvement of wild animals’—seriously?

By Gerhard R. Damm with remarks by Peter H. Flack

READ TIME 9 MINS

A critical view of the inclusion of iconic wildlife species into South Africa’s Animal Improvement Act. With this action, SA’s Dept. of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries demonstrates gross incompetence in matters of conservation. Negative consequences for wildlife and habitat will be inevitable.READ MORE

October 1, 2019 In Conservation & Wildlife Management, Editorial, October 2019 - Volume I-4, Rural Communities & Hunting By Gerhard R. Damm

Protectionist NGOs Obstruct Real Conservation–And the Dunning-Kruger Effect keeps them in power

By Gerhard R. Damm

READ TIME 9 MINS

Through social media, protectionist NGOs are flourishing. Anti-hunting groups broadly refuse—or refute—scientific research and often ignore socio-economic factors while collecting millions in donations and saddling range states and rural communities with high conservation costs. It doesn’t have to be this way.READ MORE

October 1, 2019 In Conservation & Wildlife Management, Editorial, News from the Regions, October 2019 - Volume I-4 By Silvio Calabi

Hunting & Social Media: Namibia Has a Position on That–Today’s hunters must take the Worldwide Web into account

By Silvio Calabi

READ TIME 4 MINS

Social media posts of happy hunters with dead animals often dismay anti-hunters and non-hunters alike, with predictable negative consequences. Namibia’s Ministry of Tourism and Environment, which regulates that country’s safari trade, has said it wants to ban such posts outright. NAPHA, Namibia’s professional hunting body, has countered with a social-media code of conduct. All hunters everywhere should think long and hard before publicizing trophy photos.READ MORE

July 1, 2019 In Conservation & Wildlife Management, Editorial, July 2019 - Volume I-3, Rural Communities & Hunting By Malan Lindeque & Rosalia Iileka

Conservation First

By Malan Lindeque & Rosalia Iileka

READ TIME 10 MINS

This editorial highlights the “trial by ordeal” that hunting is now being subjected to and asks some questions of those who engineer global anti-hunting campaigns. What will happen to biodiversity and rural communities if hunting is consigned to the dustbin of history? The hunting community also faces stark choices. Hunters not conforming to long-term sustainability objectives—those who do not put conservation first, and who fail to convey a convincing message—will self-destruct. Malan Lindeque and Rosalia Iileka suggest solutions.READ MORE