The Color Game Is Over
April 2017, Volume 15-2
The breeding of wildlife to produce unusually colored animals, in ...
Encore: Canned Lion Breeding And Shooting
April 2017, Volume 15-2
The advocates of captive lion breeding and canned lion shooting ...
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit Exposes People And Powers Behind Illegal Rhino Horn Trade
February 2017, Volume 15-1
In a six-month long investigation, an Al Jazeera team penetrated ...
The Fair Chase Guild – What Is It?
February 2017, Volume 15-1
I attended an historic meeting on Tuesday 18 October 2016. ...
WESSA: How To Enhance Value Of Legal Rhino Horn
February 2017, Volume 15-1
The Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA) thinks ...
SA Hunters Concerned About New Regulations That Allow Cross-Breeding Of Wildlife
November 2016, Volume 14-4&5
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) added twelve ...
Sterile Freaks
November 2016, Volume 14-4&5
For the last couple of months I have been standing ...
A Watering Hole and Restaurant for Visiting Hunters
June 2016, Volume 14-3
Just before finishing this issue I had a most delightful ...
Statement on Captive-Bred Lion Hunting and Associated Activities
April 2016, Volume 14-2
It is the opinion of the African Lion Working Group ...
An Anti-Hunting Ideologue on a Flight of Fancy
April 2016, Volume 14-2
A recent editorial by a constitutional ...
Kudu in Namibia
February 2016, Volume 14-1
Kai-Uwe and Hagen Denker presented an interesting paper at the ...
A Special Buffalo Hunt in Klaserie Private Nature Reserve
February 2016, Volume 14-1
Klaserie Private Nature Reserve and the Southern African Wildlife College ...
Buffalo Breeding Mania in South Africa
February 2016, Volume 14-1
Africa’s biggest-horned and disease-free buffalo was valued at a record ...
Intensive and Selective Breeding
February 2016, Volume 14-1
African Indaba has reported about the apparently exclusive South African ...
Abstracts of Recently Published Wildlife Papers
December 2015, Volume 13-6
COMPLEMENTARY BENEFITS OF TOURISM AND HUNTING TO COMMUNAL CONSERVANCIES IN ...
Pretoria High Court Overturns Moratorium in Domestic Rhino Horn Trade
December 2015, Volume 13-6
The High Court in Pretoria set aside the SA Government’s ...
PHASA Says no to Canned (aka Captive-Bred) Lion Hunting
December 2015, Volume 13-6
The Professional Hunters Association of South Africa (PHASA) held its ...
Leadership Changes at Phasa
December 2015, Volume 13-6
The Professional Hunters’ Association of South Africa (PHASA) has appointed ...
Killing For Conservation In A Big Game Reserve
June 2015, Volume 13-3
A confession: I am one of those cowardly meat eaters ...
A Pioneering Wildlife College
June 2015, Volume 13-3
The Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC) was established in 1996 ...
Stewart Dorrington On Hunting And Game Breeding
June 2015, Volume 13-3
Editor’s Note: In the last issue of African Indaba we ...
Eulogy Of Opportunities Missed
April 2015, Volume 13-2
Editor’s Note: Paul Stones, a highly experienced PH and long ...
Response From Wildlife Ranching SA President Dr Peter Oberem to SA Hunters
April 2015, Volume 13-2
There has of late been a lot of noise in ...
South African Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) on Color Morphs
April 2015, Volume 13-2
Editor’s Note (GRD): Below is the text of a letter ...
PHASA Position Paper On Intensive Breeding And The Breeding Of Color Variants In The Wildlife Industry
April 2015, Volume 13-2
PHASA rejects any notion or claim that the breeding of ...
SAHGCA Calls For Regulation Of Intensive Commercial Game Breeding Practices
April 2015, Volume 13-2
The South African Hunters and Game Conservation Association (SAHGCA) wants ...
The Debate On Hunting And Game Breeding in South Africa
April 2015, Volume 13-2
Readers of African Indaba have followed the debate on hunting ...
Obituary: Dr. Ian Player 1927-2014
February 2015, Volume 13-1
Ian Player died in November 2014, aged 87. The older ...
Obituary: Brian Marsh, The Gentleman Hunter 1928-2014
December 2014, Volume 12-6
Brian Marsh, the „pioneering hunter“, who later became a writer, ...
Obituary: Don Lindsay
December 2014, Volume 12-6
On October 3rd, Don Lindsay, one of the icons of ...
The New SANParks CEO Is Fundisile Mketeni
December 2014, Volume 12-6
Fundisile Mketeni was appointed as the CEO of the SA ...
Game Industry – Quo Vadis?
December 2014, Volume 12-6
As everyone knows these days, the game industry is big ...
Some Firsts, By The First, For The First…
December 2014, Volume 12-6
Wildlife managers often debate issues around, for example, extra-limital distribution ...
Not All In Favour Of Burning Rhino Horn
October 2014, Volume 12-5-II
Armed guards escorted officials marching 60 kilograms of rhino horns ...
Opinion: N F Alberts On Game Breeding In South Africa
October 2014, Volume 12-5-II
I have written to the publication before about the alarming ...
Opinion: Dr. Gerhard Verdoorn On Game Ranching In South Africa
October 2014, Volume 12-5-II
It is of grave concern to myself and other conservationists ...
Canned Killings And Other Unnatural Behavior In The Game Ranching Industry
October 2014, Volume 12-5-II
Why do I and my amateur and professional hunting friends ...
Rhino Poaching Kingpin Hugo Ras And Accomplices Arrested
October 2014, Volume 12-5-I
HAWKS head Lieutenant General Anwa Dramat told MPs in the ...
KNP Anti-Poaching Chief Speaks
October 2014, Volume 12-5-I
Africa Geographic’s Scott Ramsay interviewed the anti-poaching chief of Kruger ...
A Model for a Smart Trade in Rhino Horn
The Chinese have always wanted rhino horn. South Africa can ...
Hunting For a Way to Save Wildlife
July 2014, Volume 12-4
Two issues have created a deep division among conservationists across ...
Runaway Game Prices – An Economic Bubble With Major Conservation Risks?
July 2014, Volume 12-4
There has been a lot of press coverage recently about ...
Responding to Hunting Hate Mail
May 2014, Volume 12-3
Editor’s Note (G. Damm): After Mara Nel tweeted a photo ...
Former PHASA President Ronnie Rowland on PHASA Lion Policy
May 2014, Volume 12-3
Editor’s Note (G. Damm): Ronnie Rowland is a past president ...
Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC) Anti-Poaching Training
May 2014, Volume 12-3
The need for Field Rangers on the ground and ground ...
Madiba: Conservationist and Hunter … and a Bit of History
March 2014, Volume 12-2
In 1981 the Apartheid government created KaNgwane a semi-independent homeland ...
Canned Lion Shooting Revisited
February 2014, Volume 12-1
In the previous issue of African Indaba, we discussed canned ...
Shooting or Hunting: What is it to be
November 2013, Volume 11-5&6
More than a decade ago, representatives and leadership of organized ...
South Africa: Game Price Stampede
November 2013, Volume 11-5&6
SA’S wildlife industry is seeing a boom in prices paid ...
The Development of Modern Bow Hunting in South Africa
November 2013, Volume 11-5&6
About three decades ago, bow hunting as a sport hunting ...
Peter Flack’s Response to the Financial Mail Article
November 2013, Volume 11-5&6
I refer to your article, Game price stampede, in the ...
The Challenge of Regulating Private Wildlife Ranches for Conservation in South Africa
November 2013, Volume 11-5&6
The authors address the new attempts at regulating wildlife ranches ...
South Africa becoming world’s model for sustainable wildlife conservation
September 2013, Volume 11-4
Thanks to the significant increase in game numbers and the ...
Genetic Contamination – a response to N.F.Alberts
September 2013, Volume 11-4
Welcome to the world we live in. Trophy hunters have ...
South Africa May Trade Rhino Horn Legally
June 2013, Volume 11-3
South Africa’s rhinos are in peril. Since 2009, over 2000 ...
Genetic contamination
June 2013, Volume 11-3
I am very concerned about the current developments in the ...
Wildlife Ranching in Perspective
February 2013, Volume 11-1
The contribution of commercial wildlife ranching to a resource efficient, ...