South Africa’s hunting sector generates about R45-billion ($2.5-billion) for the economy annually, creating badly needed jobs while conserving habitat and wildlife, according to the findings of a new ...

Trophy hunting is contentious. It typically involves paying for and pursuing a specific wild animal, often a large or iconic species, with the goal of killing it to obtain a trophy, such as the animal ...

South Africa’s conservation debate is too often anchored within the blunt slogan, “If it pays, it stays.” At face value, this appears pragmatic, even responsible. But there’s a troubling premise ...

A robust, peer-reviewed paper poses a problem for hunting apologists, since it shows that the communities they claim are helped by trophy hunting clearly do not want it. New research published in the ...

The YouTube video shows a playful lioness walking around a vehicle, where a hunter with a bow keeps trying to get a good shot at her. Canned hunting in South Africa dominated headlines in the late ...

Lawmakers will seek to end the breeding of lions for trophy hunting and the trade in their bones, setting parliament on a collision course with a powerful industry. South Africa has as many as 8 000 ...