Bool Smuts News Today

Internationally renowned SA wildlife conservationist Bool Smuts’s public naming and shaming of an Alicedale farmer’s barbaric but legal trapping and killing of a baboon and a porcupine has now reached the highest court in the country.

In what is seen as a dual victory for transparency and wildlife conservation, the Eastern Cape High Court on Tuesday ordered the provincial MEC for Environmental Affairs to disclose previously sealed records of all permits issued to trap, kill, hunt or translocate endangered leopards in the Eas...

In August 2018, Tim Allsop had lots of good things to say about the Landmark Foundation’s Shepherding Back Biodiversity Project (SBBP).

Five years into a groundbreaking biodiversity research project in the Karoo, its main sponsor lost interest and pulled the plug on it all.

The debate around ‘letting nature take its course’ is becoming increasingly redundant as wildlife are increasingly impacted upon by humans.

The ConCourt is being asked to weigh the issues arising from the unfortunate demise of a baboon and a porcupine on an Alicedale farm.

The battle over an Eastern Cape farm owner’s right to privacy and an animal activist’s freedom of expression, could soon be headed to the Constitutional Court.

The Supreme Court of Appeal ("SCA") recently dealt with the tension between the right to privacy and the right to freedom of expression in the matter of Bool Smuts and another v Herman Botha.

The Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed a farm owner's claim to the right to privacy after he was 'named and shamed' on Facebook for the alleged mistreatment of animals.

An animal rights activist who habitually names and shames offenders on Facebook has won the right to keep doing so after being challenged by a farmer who trapped and killed animals he regarded as vermin.