Wildlife criminals diversify their “careers”
Most people think that environmental or wildlife crimes are relatively isolated incidents, involving individual poachers or perhaps small groups of poachers who kill animals for profit.
Poaching succulents to the brink of extinction
It was a dark, moonless night in Namaqualand when a local man completed a sale. The next moment he was surprised as vehicles with flashing blue lights appeared out of the darkness and a police member from the Stock Theft and Endangered Species Unit leaped from behind a nearby bush, ordering him to the ground.
SNARES: Killers lying in wait
On a cold Sunday morning a team from the Moholoholo Rehabilitation Centre in Hoedspruit set out to rescue a snared leopard in the bushes of a Komatiland plantation in Agatha, Tzaneen.
The cruel practice of illegal dog hunting
South African farmers face a range of challenges: worsening weather patterns; land issues; increasing criminal activities, such as stock theft and farm attacks as well as the illegal hunting with dogs on their farms.
