conservation
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Tours
Top 6 Cheetah Conservation Tours in Cape Town
The plight of Africa’s cheetah populations has never been more severe than it is today. Classified as a CITES Appendix I endangered…
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Adventure Tourism
5 Best Hunting Trip Destinations
5 Best Hunting Trip Destinations Around The World Following our article ‘hunting versus conservation’, this article provides a brief overview…
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Conservation
200th Black Rhino Translocated
South Africa, 7 August 2019 – Marking a major milestone in wildlife conservation, the WWF-SA Black Rhino Range Expansion Project…
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Conservation
Voluntourism At Ashia Cheetah Sanctuary
Ashia Cheetah Sanctuary and Awareness Centre offers opportunities to participate in ground-breaking conservation programme CAPE TOWN, 20 June 2019 –…
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Announcements
Giltedge Joins Conservation Forces
“We are in a unique position to inspire and inform travellers about the challenges we face when building hotels and…
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Conservation
How You Can Help Save The African Pangolin
CAPE TOWN, 18 May 2019 – Eye of the Pangolin, a ground-breaking new documentary about the most trafficked mammal on…
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Trade News
Animal Interaction Consultations Go Online
Johannesburg, Tuesday 23 April 2019 – Following ten workshops held over the past two months across the country, the Southern…
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Conservation
Birth Of Cheetah Cubs A Milestone Event For Breeding Project
Kuzuko Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, 11 April 2019 – During the early hours of a stormy late-summer morning, the first…
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Accolades
Rhino Conservation Awards Call for Entries
Nominations for the 8th annual Rhino Conservation Awards have officially opened and are invited from the five rhino range states…
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Events
Earth Hour For Hotels
This year, Earth Hour falls on Saturday 30 March and the initiators of the #Connect2Earth global campaign – WWF has…
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Conservation
Cheetah Release For Metapopulation Legacy
Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 14 March 2019 – The release of a captive-born female cheetah named Jasmin onto Kuzuko Lodge,…
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Conservation
Cheetah Sanctuary Attains Fair Trade Accreditation
Ashia, a world-class cheetah sanctuary outside Paarl in South Africa’s Western Cape, has this month been awarded Fair Trade Tourism’s…
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Opinion
Thought Leadership: Hunting vs Conservation
Conservation with class and hunting with thought: a synergistic approach to the hunting versus conservation debate.
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Trade News
Rescued Circus Lions Arrive in South Africa
Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 04 March 2019 – Four lions rescued from a Ukraine circus have been released into their…
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Trade News
Proposal To Lift Hunting Ban In Botswana
Gabarone, Botswana, 22 February 2019 – Yesterday, a white paper was submitted to the government, which, if passed, could effectively…
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Conservation
Cheetah Swap To Boost Metapopulation
The recent swap of male cheetah between Samara Private Game Reserve and Welgevonden Game Reserve will have significant implications for…
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Trade News
Animal Interaction Consultation Workshop Dates Announced
SOUTH AFRICA, Johannesburg – Thursday 24 January 2019: The Southern Africa Tourism Services Association (SATSA) is inviting the travel trade to join…
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Conservation
Major Boost for Responsible Tourism in Conservation
The signing of a historic Cooperative Agreement between Kruger National Park and private reserves, state reserves and communal areas on…
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Conservation
Former Botswana President Commits to Tuli Conservation
The Tuli Conservation Trust (CBE) has announced the appointment of the Former President of Botswana, His Excellency Lieutenant General Dr…
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Environment
Environmental Collapse Threatens Vulture Fledgelings
An alarming number of vulture rehabilitation cases have been recorded by VulPro for the months of December 2018 and early…
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Environment
The uMfolozi: A Conservation Story
The uMfolozi Big Five Reserve is a special conservation story – the story of how Dr Ian Player started a…
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Trade News
SANParks Fees to Increase from 1 Nov 2018
PRETORIA, South Africa, 31 October 2018 – South African National Parks (SANParks) will increase its Conservation fees from 1 November 2018…
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Conservation
SANParks Receives 3 Million Rand For Anti-Poaching
SKUKUZA, Mpumalanga, 26 October 2018 – South African National Parks (SANParks) received a 3 Million Rand donation from the Legacy Experience…
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Conservation
First Captive-born Cheetah Released at Kuzuko Lodge
CAPE TOWN, Paarl, 07 September 2018 – Cheetah Experience Ashia hosted guests and media at their cheetah sanctuary today to…
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Trade News
Timbavati Welcomes New Warden
GREATER KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, 15 August 2018 – The Timbavati Private Nature Reserve has formally welcomed their new Warden, Edwin Pierce,…
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Conservation
Fair Trade Tourism Publishes Captive Wildlife Guidelines
SOUTH AFRICA, 23 July 2018 – Fair Trade Tourism (FTT) has published its Captive Wildlife Guidelines, which aim to assist the…
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Conservation
Duo Paddle to Save Shongweni Reserve on #MandelaDay2018
DURBAN, 18 July 2018 – In honour of International Mandela Day today, the founder of Conservation Guardians, Greg Vogt and Italian-born, Sara…
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Trade News
SANParks Refutes Carte Blanche Story
SANParks SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON CARTE BLANCHE STORY RELATED TO GUN TRADE Johannesburg, Tuesday, June, 26 2018 – South African…
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Trade News
Aquila Translocates Rogue Hippo
Cape Town, 31 May 2018 – In a dramatic game capture operation today, personnel from Aquila Private Game Reserve successfully captured a…
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Conservation
Hope for Elephant as China Bans Ivory
It has only been a few days since the new year, but 2018 is already bringing new hope for Africa’s…
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Trade News
In Memoriam: (Mad) Mike Penman
The southern Africa tourism industry has lost a legendary wildlife ambassador with the passing of Michael Nicholas Penman on Friday…
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Trade News
SANParks Concerned About Online Impersonation
A rapid increase of groups on social media platforms impersonating South African National Parks and some of the national parks…
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Trade News
Gucci Goes Fur-Free
Leading global fashion house Gucci has declared that it will no longer use animal fur, beginning with its spring-summer 2018…
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Sustainable Tourism
Ford Provides Grants for Conservation in Africa
PRETORIA, South Africa – Conservation and related education projects in Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania have gained new impetus following the…
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Trade News
Ongava Records Conservation Success in Namibia
Ongava Game Reserve in Namibia is home to some of the rarest wild animals on the planet, and at Ongava…
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Trade News
Call For Rhino Artist Submissions
The Rhinos Are Coming!!! will host a 3-month public outdoor art exhibition with a difference. They aim to protect and…
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Trade News
UK Media Headline Rhino Poaching Crisis in SA
The recent killing of nine white rhinos on a private farm in South Africa has hit media headlines in the…
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Conservation
A Ranger’s View On Rhino Poaching
Xolani Nicholas Funda, Chief Ranger of the Kruger National Park, says that Rangers are fighting an uphill battle against lawless…
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Trade News
VFAPU Scouts Receive Gas Stoves Donation
A Harare business, Naklon Trading, has generously donated 17 two-plate gas stoves and cylinders, one for each of Victoria Falls…
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Environment
The Impact of Drought on SA’s Wildlife Environment
To provide a better understanding of Tourism Tattler’s feature regarding the impact of drought on South Africa’s game reserves and…
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Conservation
World Pangolin Day 2017: What the Trade Ban Means for Conservation
Pangolins gained the highest level of protection under CITES with the decision to bring in a ban on international trade.…
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Trade News
WildArk Announces First Conservancy Acquisition in South Africa
International Rugby star David Pocock of Australia, will kick off his six-month sabbatical in South Africa next week (Friday February…
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Trade News
Sale of Illegally Poached Abalone Must End
The South African Department of Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) has allegedly awarded an irregular contract worth R60 million to sell…
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Trade News
Elephant Killing: A Threat to Tanzania Tourism
Elephant poaching in southern Tanzania wildlife conserved parks is under the spotlight by wildlife conservation groups worried over negative economic…
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Conservation
Remembering Cecil the Lion
Remembering Cecil the Lion on World Lion Day Editors note: World Lion Day, celebrated on in August each year, is…
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Conservation
The Other Side of the Rhino War
A heart wrenching account of life as a Game Ranger’s daughter. This article details the fear and trials that the…
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Trade News
VulPro Wins PAAZA Award
For the second year running, VulPro – The Vulture Conservation Programme of South Africa has been awarded the prestigious PAAZA…
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Conservation
Vultures and Aviation
Vultures are listed as endangered and VulPro are appealing to pilots to respect Africa’s vultures and their habitat. Even one…
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Conservation
Rhino Award Winners
The heroic actions of those that fight for the conservation of rhino were recently acknowledged, celebrated and rewarded at the…
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Conservation
Rhino Conservation Awards Honour Rangers
Game rangers are the soldiers on the frontlines in the war against the desecration of a species, putting their lives…
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Conservation
Call for China to Support Africa Conservation
Following Tourism Tattler’s article ‘Taking Responsible Tourism to China’ in the April edition, Dorria Watt follows up with the outcome…
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Conservation
2015 – Year of the Rhino?
Unofficially, the national statistic for rhino poaching deaths in South Africa during 2014 is 1173 – will 2015 be any…
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Conservation
Trade in Rhino Horn Debate
The August 2014 edition of the Tourism Tattler magazine features 5 pages of in-depth articles on the rising debate in…
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Conservation
Botswana’s Okavango Delta
Botswana’s Okavango Delta became the 1000th site inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) World Heritage…
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Trade News
Court Decision Bars Road Across Serengeti
We’ve waited years for this – The The East African Court of Justice has ruled in favor of the Serengeti,…
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Trade News
Emergency Ocean Rescue
For decades, humanity has netted too many fish and trashed the seabed all across our blue planet. But this month…
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DISCUSSIONS
Winning Comment for May
Congratulations to Elisa Galgut. Elisa’s comment has been chosen as the prize winner for May 2014. Her prize of a…
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Conservation
CACH Accused of Harming Conservation
Is the Campaign Against Canned Hunting (CACH) a threat to conservation? – You decide! Three large NGO’s dominate the SA…
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Trade News
Letter to US Fish and Wildlife
By Chris Mercer, Campaign Against Canned Hunting. I refer to the hysterical letter of protest by hunting fanatic Ron Thomson to…
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Trade News
Rhino Are In Trouble
The above rhino was sketched by Dereck Joubert in a matter of seconds from memory. In a decade’s time will…
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Post Social
Conservation: Unmanned Aerial System – Demo Invite
“Rhino have been on this planet for at least 50 million years. At the current rate of attrition it has…
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Trade News
Kwandwe Leads the Charge on World Rhino Day
Leading up to World Rhino Day on Sunday 22 September 2013, conservation success story Kwandwe Private Game Reserve in South…
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Conservation
The Economics Of The Illegal Wildlife Trade
The illegal trade of animals or animal parts has become one of the most lucrative black market activities in the…
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