Tag: wildlife
Joint effort brings Cape cormorant chicks to safety
Nearly 1 700 abandoned Cape cormorant chicks have been rescued from Robben Island for admission to the Southern African Foundation for the...
Hunters may now travel with firearms via FlySafair
Wildlife Ranching South Africa (WRSA) is excited to announce that FlySafair senior management confirmed that bookings can now be made for hunting...
Night adders: Masters of disguise
Plaas Media’s Eastern Cape journalist, Carin Venter, and her Irish terrier, Geoffrey, got quite the surprise when a female night adder greeted...
SAVC responds to call to act against Dr Elfreda Alberts
As the regulatory body for the veterinary and para-veterinary professions in South Africa, the South African Veterinary Council (SAVC) has a statutory...
WRSA announces its full board of directors
“The year 2020 will always be remembered as the year ‘time stood still’, the year that turned everything we knew, did and...
Elephant mortality in Botswana linked to cyanobacteria
According to Dr Reuben Mmatli of Botswana’s Department of Wildlife and National Parks, findings on the mortality of 330 elephants around the...
An overview of global wildlife trade
The global trade in wildlife products is an enormous industry. While information relating to the illicit trade of these products is freely...
Wildlife at risk as hunger encircles Kruger Park
This article was originally published on Daily Maverick. Click here to read the original article.
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World-class wildlife clinic opens its doors at Onderstepoort
The University of Pretoria’s (UP)
Faculty of Veterinary Science recently expanded the services it offers by
opening its very own wildlife clinic. The clinic...
EWT gets a forever home
On 26 February 2020 the Endangered Wildlife
Trust (EWT) officially opened its new EWT Conservation Campus. For nearly a
decade the EWT has been...