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For the first time in years a leopard has been spotted in the Paarl Mountain Nature Reserve. The sighting was caught on camera in the early hours of last weekend.
The report began with the 2018 Parliamentary Colloquium on lion farming and would probably not have happened without that historic kickstart. It’s merely a report of course, albeit a massive and comprehensive one, and many reports have been buried and forgotten in the past. What started in Parliament must now end in Parliament as law, and that still lies ahead.
But the momentum that propelled the report goes much further back than 2018 and this is more likely to accelerate than to slow.
The report has followed the wheel tracks of documentaries such as
Blood Lions, forensic and innovative reports from NGOs like the EMS, Landmark and Born Free foundations, Ban Animal Trading, Humane Society International-Africa, the Cape Leopard Trust, legal challenges by the National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA), high and Constitutional Court findings against cruelty and on the sentience of animals, landmark legal opinions by law firms such as Cullinan and Associates and the Centre for Environme
WWF to lose panda symbol on World Wildlife Day
By Mphathi Nxumalo
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Durban - AS the world commemorates World Wildlife Day on Wednesday, South African organisations that work hard to ensure animals are protected spoke on what they felt were the most important issues needing to be addressed.
According to the UN: “The animals and plants that live in the wild have an intrinsic value and contribute to the ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational and aesthetic aspects of human well-being and to sustainable development.
World Wildlife Day is an opportunity to celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora and to raise awareness of the multitude of benefits that their conservation provides to people.”