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...
by kaymusonda | Dec 5, 2022 | Africa, South Africa
By Syed Badrul AhsanIn these dangerous, uncertain times we live through, the absence of Nelson Mandela only makes our circumstances a little more parlous than they have been so far. By the time he died, Mandela did not wield political authority, but there was about...
by kaymusonda | Oct 12, 2022 | Africa, Human Rights, The Commonwealth
By William Horsley, This autumn will see a historic moment in the Commonwealth’s story which, if well handled, could stem negative talk about the organisation’s irrelevance. Member governments should seize this chance to adopt a meaningful set of commitments on...
by kaymusonda | May 25, 2022 | Africa, South Africa, The Commonwealth
By Keith Somerville The problem of how to combat poaching, conserve habitat and wildlife without abusing the human rights or destroying the livelihoods of local communities is a complex and highly controversial one. From David Sheldrick’s and Bill Woodley’s...
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