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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.