by CAAWOAdmin | Sep 15, 2021 | Awareness
How does the global COVID-19 pandemic relate to humankind’s impact on the planet? And how can the notion of biodiversity act as a protective mechanism in the future? Read on for a few important clues. University of KZN geography professor Brij Maharaj focuses in his...
by CAAWOAdmin | Jun 5, 2021 | Awareness
A recent (22 January 2020) Carte Blanche episode, labelled “not for sensitive viewers”, shared heart-rending stories and showed shocking visuals of recent cases of captive lion poaching for their teeth and claws. Here’s hoping that change can happen with increased...
by CAAWOAdmin | Mar 10, 2021 | Awareness
The latest development on the local animal welfare landscape, for which there has been very little media coverage, has been the reclassification of 33 species of wildlife as farm animals. The development took place in May this year, when the South African government...
by CAAWOAdmin | Feb 20, 2021 | Awareness
The National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) took to social media in early October to expose the live export of tens of thousands of sheep to Kuwait, from a local harbour, for slaughter over Eid. The conditions on board included...
by CAAWOAdmin | Oct 23, 2020 | Awareness, Life Saving
The Rhino population in South Africa remains at risk with numbers in the Kruger National Park being on the decrease, having dropped from 2 809 rhinos at the end of 2020 to 2 458 rhinos at present. The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE)...
by CAAWOAdmin | Sep 9, 2020 | Awareness
Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals, and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled in it. The ocean is perhaps the most vulnerable environment to plastic waste. It is estimated that plastic pollution kills 100,000...
