Interesring encounter elephant/rhino today. Look at the strong minded rhino girls, mother Mona and daughter Sissi, and the reaction of Shaka the elephant… running away from them 🐘😅🦏🦏 Showing no fear does work.

#Zimbabwe, which like #Namibia wants to re-start international trade in #ivory, uses same excuse to justify an #elephant cull of their own. #endangered "Zimbabwe Considering First Elephant Cull in Almost Four Decades" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Namibia Minister Shifeta concluded that the ministry would cull 100 #elephants, an upward revision from the 83 initially announced. informante.web.na/?p=362720 Christina Sue Spurgin Jane Dalton

Even though he was born in a captive breeding operation, this young male rhino surely knew how to stand up to a lion in the wild! In June, he was part of a translocation of 120 rhino to reserves in South Africa, the second move to happen under Rhino Rewild:

‼️FALSE STATEMENTS COMMONLY USED BY THE INDUSTRY‼️ ‘Welfare organisations are responsible for mass euthanasia of lions as they support the closure of the industry.’ Welfare orgs do agree that humane euthanasia may be necessary, especially for suffering lions.

‼ FALSE STATEMENTS COMMONLY USED BY THE INDUSTRY ‼ ‘Welfare orgs & activists are responsible for mass euthanasia of lions.’ Thousands of lions are kept in substandard conditions to be killed in inhumane manners. Learn more - bloodlions.org/about-the-brut…

#RhinoFriday celebrating one of #Africa's most magical creatures, our majestic white #rhino, a living dinosaur! Long may they continue to roam this planet. #DontLetThemDisappear #EndangeredSpecies #StopRhinoPoaching 🦏🚫💊⌛️⏰️🆘️ 📹 Mital Patel IG

#SouthAfrica Reserve Successfully Dehorns Entire #Rhino Population Ahead of #WorldRhinoDay - desperate times call for desperate measures against #rhino #poaching. When the buying STOPS the killing can too! #StopRhinoPpaching 🦏🚫💊⏰️⌛️🆘️ goodthingsguy.com/environment/re…

TOURISM AGENCIES – this is why selling wildlife interaction activities doesn’t make ethical business sense 🦁❌👋 🔸Interactions are purely for entertainment 🔸The animals often undergo circus-like training 🔸High safety risks to tourists Take action: bloodlions.org/born-to-live-w…

# India’s #cheetah #conservation plan is losing steam - The focus seems to have shifted from aiming to establish a free-ranging population of cheetahs in the wild & conserving them to essentially keeping the #cheetahs alive & breeding them in captivity. frontline.thehindu.com/environment/af…

#Zimbabwe #anthrax outbreak kills 128 animals in Gonarezhou National Park! @ZimParks will you still go ahead with the culling of 200 #elephants as the meat could be contaminated with anthrax & kill people! How will you know which animals are anthrax free? outbreaknewstoday.substack.com/p/zimbabwe-ant…

Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong in this vanity project. Only 12 out of 20 cheetahs survive. Why was this done in the first place? Please read this piece by wildlife expert Ravi Chellam in @thehindu

@hsiafrica response: killing of 9 elephants & an unborn calf at Mawana Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). 💔🐘 We're heartbroken & outraged by this incident! According to Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife (EKZNW), the elephants were killed due to conflicts with local communities. We've

#Zimbabwe #Hwange's legendary #lions & threats to their legacy. Former trophy #hunting concessions have partnered with stakeholders to create the Silwane Conservation Area, & hope to transform the area’s focus from trophy #hunting to photographic tourism. africageographic.com/stories/hwange…

#Namibia Conservancies lodge urgent high court application against proposed mining operations in area south-west of Khorixas - claiming critically #endangered black #rhinos in the area will be under increased threat of #poaching or migrate out of the area namibian.com.na/conservancies-…

#WildlifeWednesday - keeping the "wild" in #wildlife Wild & free as they should be! The ONLY place a #rhino horn belongs is on a LIVE #rhino! When the buying STOPS the killing can too! 🦏🚫💊⏰️🆘️ #StopRhinoPoaching #EndangeredSpecies #DontLetThemDisappear 📹  Hugh Morris IG

The pro hunting, culling CON-servationist", hirelings academics and self proclaimed experts are often obsessed with pride, arrogance and braggadocio. Dismiss, describe critics with facts as novice,busy bodies Eurocentric and arm chair Conservation people.

#Mozambique's SERNIC has arrested 3 suspects in Zambezia province, for attempting to sell an #Endangered #pangolin. The #pangolin was handed over to authorities so that it could be treated & protected.  #EndangeredSpecies clubofmozambique.com/news/mozambiqu…

Update: #Namibia Windhoek High Court blocks #mining near critically #endangered black #rhino population for a week - the judge postponed the delivery of his judgement to 27 September. #EndangeredSpecies namibian.com.na/mining-in-rhin…

#ThirstyThursday What a great sighting! A trio of rhino cows being admired from a distance by a #rhino bull with his oxpecker wingmen😉 🦏❤️ #DontLetThemDisappear due to human ignorance & greed! 🦏 #StopRhinoPoaching #EndangeredSpecies 🚫💊⌛️⏰️🆘️ 📸 Tasha van den Aardweg IG