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The EMS Foundation worked tirelessly for years with the Pro Elephant Network negotiating Duma’s freedom, with @fourpawsint.bsky.social we successfully evacuated Duma from the zoo and transported him to his new life.

24.12.2024 04:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

The EMS Foundation submitted substantial objections to the Department Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment proposed trophy hunting quotas for 2024 and 2025 which were acknowledged on Tuesday 17th December 2024.

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18.12.2024 05:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

South Africa is The World's Largest Exporter of Live Tigers South Africa is the world's largest exporter of live tigers and their parts despite not having any captive-breeding facilities registered in terms of the Convention on International Trade in Endangere...

SOUTH AFRICA’S TIGER BREEDING INDUSTRY IS NOT BEING MONITORED CLOSELY allafrica.com/stories/2024... In 2018 the EMS Foundation warned the South African government and CITES about the tiger breeding industry. 40 tigers were exported to a zoo in India in May 2024.

06.12.2024 08:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Slipping through the legal net — South Africa now the world’s top exporter of tigers South Africa is the biggest exporter of tigers in the world and, as pressure increases on captive lion breeding, tiger numbers are expected to rise.

SOUTH AFRICA BREEDS AND EXPORTS 40 TIGERS TO A ZOO IN INDIA in 2018 the EMS Foundation and Ban Animal Trading warned the South African government about the rampant tiger breeding industry in South Africa www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...

06.12.2024 08:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Masisi did not have anything to do with preserving elephants in Botswana that was the good work of his predecessor. Not really sure what you are trying to say about Kenya.

20.11.2024 11:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Wildlife Animal Protection Forum of South Africa strongly believe that Botswana is one of the last places on earth where wildlife, especially elephants, exist in large numbers, and therefore we believe that Botswana should be preserved as a non-trophy hunting area. wapfsa.org/wapfsa-welco...

19.11.2024 11:13 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Six years after the EMS Foundation and Ban Animal Trading released their ground breaking report - The Extinction Business South Africa’s Lion Bone Trade. We ask what tools the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment have left in their tool box.
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18.11.2024 11:51 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Duma an African bull elephant who was previously captive for four decades in a circus and then a zoo. The EMS Foundation and Shambala Private Game Reserve with the assistance of their colleagues Four Paws International, We Wild Africa, Conservation Solutions and Provet evacuated him to freedom.

14.11.2024 18:05 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0