by kaymusonda | Sep 7, 2023 | Africa, Animal Rights, South Africa, The Commonwealth
By Professor Keith Somerville Africans Parks, the Johannesburg-based non-profit conservation organisation, announced on 4th September that it was going to buy rhino owner John Hume’s Buffalo Dreams Ranch and its 2,000 southern white rhinos. The organisation said that...
by kaymusonda | Sep 7, 2023 | Africa, Elections, The Commonwealth
By Professor Sue Onslow Late on Saturday night, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced the expected result of the country’s harmonized elections: Emmerson Mnangagwa re-elected as president with 52.9%, his CCC challenger Nelson Chamisa with 44%. ZANU-PF...
by kaymusonda | Jun 16, 2023 | Africa, Animal Rights, The Commonwealth
By Professor Keith Somerville Fifteen years ago a survey of Garamba National Park (NP) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sadly concluded that the last wild northern white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) had died and that the sub-species of white rhino was...
by kaymusonda | Feb 6, 2023 | Africa, Animal Rights
By Professor Keith Somerville In 2022, 87 rhinos were poached for their horns in Namibia, up a staggering worrying 93% on the figure for 2021, when 45 were killed, according to the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism’s (MEFT) spokesperson, Romeo Muyunda. ...
by kaymusonda | Jan 13, 2023 | Africa, The Commonwealth
By Susan Williams (via the The Conversation) Samson Kambalu is a Malawian conceptual artist, writer and academic, whose sculpture Antelope was installed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London in September 2022. The Fourth Plinth was originally designed for...
by kaymusonda | Dec 13, 2022 | Africa, South Africa
By Keith Somerville The newly-released annual report by South African National Parks (SANParks) paints a sobering picture of the losses of white rhino in Kruger National Park (KNP), that sadly mirrors a report compiled by the IUCN (International Union for the...
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