Karlien van Jaarsveld is one of SA’s biggest artists. But the mom of four sure knows how to throw a ‘wild’ kids’ birthday party.
TLU SA says that illegal dog hunting in the Free State is ‘out of control’, and urged law enforcement to crack down on the ‘cruel’ practice.
Watch the dramatic hunt in which a leopard makes a spectacular impala catch, then fights a hyena that tries to take it away.
There is now one very specific exemption to the ‘travel ban’ imposed on Gauteng during Level 4 of lockdown – and it involves hunting.
Persistence paid off for a whale shark calf after it repeatedly swam close to a local fishing boat begging for help to be freed.
Writing the foreword for the book in which the revelations are made, former Botswana President Ian Khama blasts trophy hunting as “sadistic,” and makes an impassioned plea to Western governments to ban trophy imports before it’s too late.
Amended lockdown regulations in terms of the Directions for the Biodiversity Sector for Alert Level 3 will now make provision for hunters to stay overnight at their hunting destinations.
Tigers, leopards, lions, elephants and rhinos were among the many species of wild animals on offer by South African hunting outfitters at the first-ever Chinese hunting show in Shanghai last weekend.
The owner of Thandeka Safaris has revealed he received death threats this week, after a promotional offer featuring a lion hunt landed him in hot water.
Just a friendly reminder that real men help animals, not harm them. It’s a mantra Ron Thomson has ignored for 50 years, killing anything in his way.
There is more wildlife in South Africa than there was 50 or 60 years ago.
South Africa has opened hunting season on leopards after two years of grace.
Dogged by allegations of bribery and unethical operators, a dodgy permitting system, and the contentious hunting of so-called ‘problem animals’ – Namibia’s hunting community has now been forced into silence by its own government.
Do you buy her excuse?
Another gun-slinging American has angered South Africans this week.
If it moves, Kacee Crawford will shoot it.
The Trump administration has quietly slipped a law change through the cracks. South Africans will definitely not like it
Hunting can be dangerous, even deadly…
As if we needed more reasons to love Botswana.
That’s a lot of c-notes to shoot a lion at close quarters.
In the preamble to an article posted on Untold Africa towards the end of 2015, I wrote: “Hunting, especially trophy hunting, is a topic guaranteed to get a lot of people very hot under the collar very quickly, especially among those polarised into the stridently ‘for’ camp and the often even more strident ‘under no circumstances’ camp.
Walter Palmer has finally broken his silence and wants to tell his side of what happened back in July in Zimbabwe and essentially changed his life forever.
The hunting industry has fallen out of favour with the public and even big businesses are taking a step back, but hunters claim they can reclaim the industry’s esteem and save wildlife in the process.
No more lion heads and leopard-skins for those who seek to plunder Africa’s eco resources as SAA takes a hard line against hunters.
Self-professed ‘hardcore hunter’ Melissa Bachman receives death threats after posting photos online of herself beside a lion she claims to have stalked and killed in South Africa, igniting a fierce debate about trophy hunting and sexism.