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South Africa is set to ban captive lion breeding.
Once adopted by the Department of Environment, Forestry, and Fisheries (DEFF), new legislation will make all captive lion breeding illegal in South Africa.
This will help to eliminate the so-called “snuggle scam” tourists posing and interacting with young lions for photographs as well as canned or captive trophy hunting.
According to Humane Society International (HSI), the decision is part of a range of recommendations recently announced by South Africa’s Minister of Environment, Forestry, and Fisheries, Barbara Creecy.
She also said that there will be an end to the commercial sale of all lion derivatives, which includes both hunting trophies and the body parts used in traditional medicines and folk remedies, such as bones.
Lake Ossa, Cameroon - Copyright AMMCO By
• Updated: 12/05/2021 - 16:41
Cameroon’s coastal waters have been invaded by three of the world’s most dangerous water weeds, proving an existential threat to aquatic ecosystems and livelihoods of riparian communities.
The latest of these weeds, Salvinia molesta, is
a free-floating, green-brown freshwater fern with branching horizontal stems. It has already invaded more than 40 per cent of
Lake Ossa (4,000 hectares), the largest natural lake found on Cameroon’s coast, since 2016.
The weed doubles in size every 10 days.
The other two, water lettuce and
water hyacinth, appeared much earlier - in 1949 and 1970 respectively, according to the Cameroon National Herbarium, a collection centre for plant specimens.
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GLAND, Switzerland, March 26, 2021 (ENS) – Poaching for ivory and loss of habitat over the past five decades have taken a grim toll on African elephants. The African forest elephant, Loxodonta cyclotis, is now listed as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant,
Loxodonta africana, is listed as Endangered on the authoritative Red List of Threatened Species compiled by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN.
Before today’s update, African elephants were treated as a single species, listed as Vulnerable to extinction. This is the first time the two species have been assessed separately for the IUCN Red List, after the emergence of new genetic evidence.
Science, not sanctions, will save our planet
Hard facts correct European palm oil misperceptions - and point the way to a sustainable biofuel strategy, argues Dr Nafeez Ahmed.
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03 May 2021
The world is confronted by two interrelated crises. The first is immediately urgent: ongoing deforestation is increasing the likelihood of future pandemics. As barriers between humans and wildlife decrease, greater interspecies contact means rising potential for dangerous disease transfer. The second is a systemic threat with terrible long-term repercussions.
In 2019, the EU effectively prohibited imports of palm oil for biodiesel because of its alleged contribution to deforestation. While technically this is not an outright ban, it disincentivises businesses from importing palm oil under a shift toward renewable energy.