Author

Emmanuel Koro
  • International hunting bounces back in Botswana after a long absence

    For a country that missed hunting like the deserts miss the rain over a six-year period, Botswana bounces back on the international hunting map in April 2021; to quench the international hunters’ thirst in a country with the biggest, most...

  • The untold story of urban residents and safari hunting

    Even as threats to shut down hunting markets continue to manifest particularly from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, actual Africans on the ground stress that the benefits are far-reaching and crosscutting, demonstrating the importance of the...

  • SADC moves to start legal wildlife trade outside CITES

    The states dismissed the CITES voting process and reinforced their position that the UN agency’s trading rules are “tainted, rigged and not free and fair.” After the 18th CITES conference voted to block the SADC countries from...

  • Three SADC states go to battle against CITES

    The three countries are declaring themselves independent of the controls exercised by the Geneva-based UN Convention on International Trade In Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). They are joined in their protest by another five...

  • Trevor Noah's hunting jibes rile Southern Africa

    Most of the wildlife-rich Southern African countries, including poor rural communities from his home country South Africa whose livelihoods depend on hunting wildlife revenue reacted with disappointment. They dismissed Noah’s claim that rural...

  • How SADC votes were 'stolen' at CITES

    The three elephant over-populated SADC countries, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe submitted a joint proposal to trade in thousands of tonnes of stockpiled ivory. But they were incredibly defeated by 101 (81%) no-votes, with only 22 votes (19%)...

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