News – Natshoot https://natshoot.co.za Ever Evolving Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:34:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 /wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Natshoot-Site-Favicon-150x150.webp News – Natshoot https://natshoot.co.za 32 32 Southern Africa’s Sustainable Use Coalition slams CITES CoP20 decisions as “punishing success” and “killing with kindness” https://natshoot.co.za/southern-africas-sustainable-use-coalition-slams-cites-cop20-decisions-as-punishing-success-and-killing-with-kindness/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 02:50:45 +0000 https://www.natshoot.co.za/?p=2630 Scapegoating Lead-Based Ammunition: Why Bullets Aren’t the Smoking Gun in Vulture Declines https://natshoot.co.za/scapegoating-lead-based-ammunition-why-bullets-arent-the-smoking-gun-in-vulture-declines/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:45:35 +0000 https://natshoot.co.za/?p=2279 Efforts to ban lead-based ammunition are being framed as essential to vulture conservation. But the real threat isn’t bullets—it’s poisoning, habitat loss, and misinformation that distracts from science and shifts focus away from effective, African-led solutions.

]]> Ten Years After Cecil: The Lion, the Lies, and the Ongoing Exploitation of Wildlife and the Public https://natshoot.co.za/ten-years-after-cecil-the-lion-the-lies-and-the-ongoing-exploitation-of-wildlife-and-the-public/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:18:52 +0000 https://natshoot.co.za/?p=2266 It was with trepidation that I watched June 2025 fade away and July 2025 show herself. July 2025 marks ten years since the legal and controversial hunting of “Cecil,” a lion from Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park whose death was used to ignite global outrage.

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