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For low-income communities living on the borders of game reserves, the benefits of trophy hunting are few. There are 10 better ways that they could earn a living.
South Africa urgently needs to adopt a streamlined and interconnected approach to wildlife trade law at the provincial, national and international levels.
The southern African wildlife economy is socially and environmentally unsustainable.
The strategy aims to conserve biodiversity while also contributing to the creation of jobs and economic growth.
Lion protection fees paid by tourists could pave the way for a responsible transition away from trophy hunting without affecting the communities that rely on hunting revenue.
To what extent should the costs of protecting globally valued rhinos be carried by their local custodians?
Bans on importing hunting trophies risk harming, not helping, endangered species.
An Africa-based conservation expert explains why trophy hunting has not delivered for wildlife in most parts of Africa, and that local communities benefit next to nothing from its continued practice
Legal hunting helps rhino conservation for biological and socio-economic reasons.
To many of us trophy hunting is repellent. But here’s a look at why killing wild animals might be pleasurable to some.
Debates centred on the role of recreational hunting in supporting nature conservation and local people’s livelihoods are among the most polarising in conservation today.
How communities in Botswana are counting the costs of a trophy hunting ban.
A new study evaluates what South African landowners who run trophy hunting operations would do in the event of a hunting ban.
Private game farming isn’t being managed in a socially or environmentally sustainable way.
A green criminologist weighs up the evidence.
In light of Botswana’s decision to allow trophy hunting again, new evidence suggests elephant poaching has been on the rise.
Lifting the trophy hunting moratorium in Botswana is more about politics and less about elephant conservation.
Trophy hunting is not the solution to Africa’s wildlife conservation challenges. There are other ways.
Few people could argue that hunting wildlife for trophies is moral, but conservationists have bigger fish to fry to reverse biodiversity loss
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Oppenheimer-Jamma Research Chair in African Wildlife Economies, Stellenbosch University
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Environmental Social Scientist, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor in Conservation Geography, University of Helsinki
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Professor in Tourism, North-West University
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Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Research and Training Manager, Wildlife &Ecological Investments, Tshwane University of Technology
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Research Associate, Department of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand; Chief Research Officer, Good Governance Africa; Managing Director, Harvey Economics Pty Ltd.
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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Instructor of Philosophy, Boston University
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Assistant researcher, University of Alberta
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Reader in Evolutionary Ecology, Queen Mary University of London
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Conservation science, PhD, University of Alberta