If you ask me, the biggest threat to African elephants is not poaching, habitat loss, animal human conflict or hunting; it is the animal liberation movement that poses the greatest threat to elephants. Before you scoff and say that is…
The True Green Alliance
If you ask me, there are some serious and dangerous trends emerging in the world of conservation and especially for African conservation. These trends are directly related to the rise of the animal rights movement and their nonsensical and unrealistic…
Some Truths About Trophy Hunting – Part 1
If you ask me, there are a lot of foolish people who are trying to influence working conservation programs for their own selfish agendas. These people, from the animal rights movement and from the world’s media, are doing their level best…
Book Review – Managing Our Wildlife Heritage.
If you ask me and if you are you concerned about wildlife and conservation issues but would like to understand it more, as I most certainly do, then this book, ‘Managing our Wildlife Heritage’, is an excellent place to start! This…
Controlled Hunting or Indiscriminate Poaching – there are really only two choices!
If you ask me, the debate that has erupted over trophy hunting in Africa, as a result of the death of one old lion, has involved far too much unfounded and ill-placed emotion and way too little fact and common…
The Cecil the Lion Scam – Shame on the World
If you ask me, the recent media debacle over the killing of Cecil the lion is a sad testament to how sick our world has become. I am not talking about the morality or legality of killing that lion, for…
The Killing of Cecil the Lion
If you ask me, the present situation where the world’s media are in a frenzy over the killing of Cecil the lion, who has been hailed by the media as the world’s most famous lion, is pretty damn pathetic. I…