By Zig Mackintosh Key Takeaways * The Constitutional Court is weighing whether "well-being" belongs in NEMBA, with hunting, fishing, and wildlife management hanging on the answer. * The new definition shifts the law away from regulated, humane use toward a rights-based stance. * "Well-being" extends to an animal'
This episode follows the Lake Albert Safaris anti-poaching team on patrol in Uganda's Kabwoya Wildlife Reserve. The reserve currently has nine anti-poaching staff, with plans to roughly double that number as game populations grow. Recruitment happens from within. Aston Sparks, a director of the company, relies on the
By Dr Daniel Stiles Key Takeaways * In October 2025, the Northern Cape High Court ruled that breeder Hendrick Diedericks can export horn from captive-bred white rhinos. The government wants to appeal but has not yet been granted leave. * The arrest of Vietnamese national Huy Bao Tran, tied to dozens of
A Strategic Partnership for Conservation The Mozambique Wildlife Alliance (MWA) was established as a local non-profit organization tailored to Mozambique's conservation needs. MWA grew out of Saving the Survivors' (STS) operations in the country. The rationale was to create a dedicated, independent organization able to work with
By Prof Brian Child Key Takeaways * Wild resources are taxed and regulated in ways no farmer would tolerate for livestock. A South African farmer needs 17 permits to sell a springbok and one to sell a sheep. That asymmetry shifts land-use decisions against wildlife. * Wildlife is priceless to society but
By Hank's Voice In 1673, German political philosopher Samuel von Pufendorf wrote, “More inhumanity has been done by man himself than any other of nature’s causes.” Now, over 350 years later, this theme is played out regularly on social media and in the legacy media, in the
The Phalaborwa Natural Heritage Foundation (PNHF) focuses its anti-poaching efforts in the bushland around the Kruger National Park. Eugene Troskie from PNHF has noticed a disturbing trend in recent years where lions are being targeted for their bones to supply the Asian traditional medicine trade. To kill a lion, the
Setting up a new anti-poaching operation takes more than boots on the ground. In this video, Derek Littleton from LUWIRE in the Niassa Reserve of Mozambique explains why information is sometimes more useful than firepower and why turning villagers into allies works better than treating them as adversaries. He'
By Dr Daniel Stiles Key Takeaways: * An invasive big-headed ant (Pheidole megacephala) is displacing the native acacia ant that defends whistling-thorn trees against elephants at Ol Pejeta. * Big-headed ants don't bite elephants. In invaded areas, elephants break trees at five to seven times the rate of uninvaded areas.
The Malagarasi River cuts through one of Tanzania's lesser-known safari concessions, the Uvinza Open Area. This film documents the hard work that has gone into rehabilitating it. Most of the area is floodplain. Seasonal water dictates wildlife movement, where poachers operate, and where patrols can reach. When the
By Marco Pani Key Takeaways: * Hunting concessions across seven SADC countries cover roughly 1.16 million sq km of habitat. That's nearly double the 618,000 sq km of protected land in national parks in those same countries. * Most of Africa's elephants and lions live outside
In this episode of Patrol, the anti-poaching team in the Kabwoya Wildlife Reserve, Uganda, clears a freshly set snare line in the thickets scattered across the savannah. Lake Albert Safaris director Aston Sparks explains how rangers read a poacher's signature. The materials, the spacing, and the way the