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Pieter's Blog - Archive

Welcome to Pieter Kat's official LionAid blog. Here you can follow Pieter's opinions, thoughts, insights and ideas on saving lions.

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2012 - The annus horribilis for African wildlife? 5th January 2013
What is the value of a lion? 11th January 2013
Comments from the peanut gallery 12th January 2013
Whither CITES? 14th January 2013
US Fish and Wildlife Service takes the next step for lions 24th January 2013
Flawed economic models will not conserve elephants 29th January 2013
Sad for Simba? 29th January 2013
The Illegal Drug Trade and the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Are they Comparable? 7th February 2013
The African Lion Working Group and the Panthera Foundation say Lion Trophy Hunting Should Continue 7th February 2013
CITES Travesty - Part 1: Rhino horn trade 10th February 2013
CITES Travesty Part 2: The grey trade in ivory - how legal is it? 16th February 2013
Zambia's ban on lion hunting and the SCI Hunters' Convention... 17th February 2013
Whatever happened to the Periodic Review of lions? 22nd February 2013
CITES Travesty Part 3: Polar Bears 22nd February 2013
The live rhino trade from South Africa 26th February 2013
The EU and the illegal wildlife trade 2nd March 2013
Lion trophy hunting should go extinct before the lions do. 5th March 2013
CITES is keeping true to form 6th March 2013
CITES and the Red Queen 10th March 2013
Hiding in plain sight 10th March 2013
Saving Lions by Killing Them? 19th March 2013
Legalizing the trade in rhino horn - ongoing moves 23rd March 2013
Saving lions by killing them - Part 2 25th March 2013
Africa's elephants are not a commodity. 1st April 2013
Thumbing their noses at CITES - Zimbabwe's ivory trade 5th April 2013
Rhino poaching in Kruger National Park - connivance, RENAMO and Marenge diamonds? 12th April 2013
Lion trophy hunting - cost/benefit wins over ethics 16th April 2013
Commercial trade in polar bears : not cultural, not subsistence, not necessary 27th April 2013
Canned lion hunting in South Africa - who is challenging the trade? 4th May 2013
Rhino poaching in South Africa - a recipe with home-grown ingredients 15th May 2013
Is disease a threat to the few remaining Asiatic lions ? 22nd May 2013
Lion trophy hunting from the perspective of a former hunter 9th June 2013
Canned and wild lion hunting examined 16th June 2013